diff --git a/exporter/elasticsearchexporter/go.mod b/exporter/elasticsearchexporter/go.mod
index a3bc919d3345..2292dbca6650 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 v2.3.3
 	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 v8.17.0 // 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