diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index ba74077..3ebd8ad 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-FROM maven:3.9.0-amazoncorretto-17@sha256:0d683f66624265935e836c9d2c3851ce3cf250cb48c9929d979d8d80f62d8590 as buildtime
+FROM maven:3.9.0-amazoncorretto-17@sha256:0d683f66624265935e836c9d2c3851ce3cf250cb48c9929d979d8d80f62d8590 AS buildtime
 
 WORKDIR /build
 COPY . .
 
 RUN mvn clean package -DskipTests
 
-FROM amazoncorretto:17.0.6-al2@sha256:86ad3a5620d6f7590f59fb6067b98687367e49e632a5ee719fb03bc9ffd1499f as runtime
+FROM amazoncorretto:17.0.6-al2@sha256:86ad3a5620d6f7590f59fb6067b98687367e49e632a5ee719fb03bc9ffd1499f AS runtime
 
 VOLUME /tmp
 WORKDIR /app
@@ -14,7 +14,5 @@ RUN useradd --uid 10000 runner
 USER 10000
 
 COPY --from=buildtime /build/target/*.jar /app/app.jar
-# The agent is enabled at runtime via JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS.
-ADD https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInsights-Java/releases/download/3.4.7/applicationinsights-agent-3.4.7.jar /app/applicationinsights-agent.jar
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["java","-jar","/app/app.jar"]
diff --git a/helm/rtd/values.yaml b/helm/rtd/values.yaml
index c92fe76..eccc0e5 100644
--- a/helm/rtd/values.yaml
+++ b/helm/rtd/values.yaml
@@ -52,16 +52,10 @@ microservice-chart:
     runAsUser: 10000
     runAsGroup: 10000
 
-  envConfig:
-    APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_PREVIEW_PROFILER_ENABLED: "false"
-
   envSecret:
     MONGODB_CONNECTION_URI: mongo-db-connection-uri
     APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING: appinsights-instrumentation-key
 
   envConfigMapExternals:
     rtdsenderauth:
-      JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS
-      APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_ROLE_NAME: APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_ROLE_NAME
-      APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_INSTRUMENTATION_LOGGING_LEVEL: APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_INSTRUMENTATION_LOGGING_LEVEL
-      APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_INSTRUMENTATION_MICROMETER_ENABLED: APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_INSTRUMENTATION_MICROMETER_ENABLED
+      OPENTELEMETRY_LOG_LEVEL: APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_INSTRUMENTATION_LOGGING_LEVEL
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d3e9d32..3addeb3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     </parent>
     <groupId>it.gov.pagopa.rtd.ms</groupId>
     <artifactId>rtd-ms-sender-auth</artifactId>
-    <version>1.1.2</version>
+    <version>1.1.3</version>
     <name>rtd-ms-sender-auth</name>
     <description>micro-service responsible to store the association between sender code and api key</description>
     <properties>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application.yml b/src/main/resources/application.yml
index ccf8449..e47491f 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application.yml
+++ b/src/main/resources/application.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ management:
         enabled: true
 
 applicationinsights.enabled: '@applicationinsights.enabled@'
+otel.log.level: ${OPENTELEMETRY_LOG_LEVEL:INFO}
 otel.instrumentation.logback-appender.enabled: true # enable logback instrumentation
 otel.traces.sampler.probability: 1.0 # sample probability for tracing (spans)
 otel.metric.export.interval: 60000 # sampling rate for metrics (millis)
diff --git a/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml b/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
index c86ba1b..f0b9b14 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
+++ b/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
@@ -8,10 +8,16 @@
       <charset>utf8</charset>
     </encoder>
   </appender>
+
+  <springProperty scope="context" name="otelLogLevel" source="otel.log.level" defaultValue="INFO"/>
   <appender name="OpenTelemetry"
     class="io.opentelemetry.instrumentation.logback.appender.v1_0.OpenTelemetryAppender">
     <captureExperimentalAttributes>true</captureExperimentalAttributes>
     <captureMdcAttributes>*</captureMdcAttributes>
+    <!-- Set the logging level for OpenTelemetry from the environment variable -->
+    <filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.filter.ThresholdFilter">
+      <level>${otelLogLevel}</level>
+    </filter>
   </appender>
 
   <root level="INFO">