diff --git a/exporter/elasticsearchexporter/go.mod b/exporter/elasticsearchexporter/go.mod
index 14424c04c916..b6cb401c6098 100644
--- a/exporter/elasticsearchexporter/go.mod
+++ b/exporter/elasticsearchexporter/go.mod
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4 v4.3.0
 	github.com/elastic/go-docappender/v2 v2.3.2
 	github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v7 v7.17.10
+	github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v8 v8.17.0
 	github.com/elastic/go-structform v0.0.12
 	github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.12
 	github.com/klauspost/compress v1.17.11
@@ -35,7 +36,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/armon/go-radix v1.0.0 // indirect
 	github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 // indirect
 	github.com/elastic/elastic-transport-go/v8 v8.6.0 // indirect
-	github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v8 v8.16.0 // indirect
 	github.com/elastic/go-sysinfo v1.7.1 // indirect
 	github.com/elastic/go-windows v1.0.1 // indirect
 	github.com/felixge/httpsnoop v1.0.4 // indirect
diff --git a/exporter/elasticsearchexporter/go.sum b/exporter/elasticsearchexporter/go.sum
index 74184bd1cab2..617fe2229515 100644
--- a/exporter/elasticsearchexporter/go.sum
+++ b/exporter/elasticsearchexporter/go.sum
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v7 v7.17.10 h1:TCQ8i4PmIJuBunvBS6bwT2ybzVFxx
 github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v7 v7.17.10/go.mod h1:OJ4wdbtDNk5g503kvlHLyErCgQwwzmDtaFC4XyOxXA4=
 github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v8 v8.16.0 h1:f7bR+iBz8GTAVhwyFO3hm4ixsz2eMaEy0QroYnXV3jE=
 github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v8 v8.16.0/go.mod h1:lGMlgKIbYoRvay3xWBeKahAiJOgmFDsjZC39nmO3H64=
+github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v8 v8.17.0 h1:e9cWksE/Fr7urDRmGPGp47Nsp4/mvNOrU8As1l2HQQ0=
+github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v8 v8.17.0/go.mod h1:lGMlgKIbYoRvay3xWBeKahAiJOgmFDsjZC39nmO3H64=
 github.com/elastic/go-structform v0.0.12 h1:HXpzlAKyej8T7LobqKDThUw7BMhwV6Db24VwxNtgxCs=
 github.com/elastic/go-structform v0.0.12/go.mod h1:CZWf9aIRYY5SuKSmOhtXScE5uQiLZNqAFnwKR4OrIM4=
 github.com/elastic/go-sysinfo v1.7.1 h1:Wx4DSARcKLllpKT2TnFVdSUJOsybqMYCNQZq1/wO+s0=