diff --git a/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml b/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
index 9ef498f86eca..f091d191c6e9 100644
--- a/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
+++ b/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
@@ -163,11 +163,6 @@ steps:
   - tests/tracing
   commands:
   - pytest -v -s metrics
-  - "pip install \
-      'opentelemetry-sdk>=1.26.0,<1.27.0' \
-      'opentelemetry-api>=1.26.0,<1.27.0' \
-      'opentelemetry-exporter-otlp>=1.26.0,<1.27.0' \
-      'opentelemetry-semantic-conventions-ai>=0.4.1,<0.5.0'"
   - pytest -v -s tracing
 
 ##### fast check tests  #####
diff --git a/requirements/common.txt b/requirements/common.txt
index bb1bb2dd994e..32745a101f65 100644
--- a/requirements/common.txt
+++ b/requirements/common.txt
@@ -43,3 +43,7 @@ watchfiles # required for http server to monitor the updates of TLS files
 python-json-logger # Used by logging as per examples/other/logging_configuration.md
 scipy # Required for phi-4-multimodal-instruct
 ninja # Required for xgrammar, rocm, tpu, xpu
+opentelemetry-sdk>=1.26.0,<1.27.0  # vllm.tracing
+opentelemetry-api>=1.26.0,<1.27.0  # vllm.tracing
+opentelemetry-exporter-otlp>=1.26.0,<1.27.0  # vllm.tracing
+opentelemetry-semantic-conventions-ai>=0.4.1,<0.5.0  # vllm.tracing