diff --git a/sdk/ai/azure-ai-inference/README.md b/sdk/ai/azure-ai-inference/README.md
index e4776f7a126c..7c7f3b284ed8 100644
--- a/sdk/ai/azure-ai-inference/README.md
+++ b/sdk/ai/azure-ai-inference/README.md
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ Check out your observability vendor documentation on how to configure OpenTeleme
 Make sure to install OpenTelemetry and the Azure SDK tracing plugin via
 
 ```bash
-pip install opentelemetry
+pip install opentelemetry-sdk
 pip install azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry
 ```