diff --git a/litellm/tests/test_proxy_utils.py b/litellm/tests/test_proxy_utils.py
index aea81b0173..30a1aac5ce 100644
--- a/litellm/tests/test_proxy_utils.py
+++ b/litellm/tests/test_proxy_utils.py
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
 import asyncio
+import os
+import sys
 from unittest.mock import Mock
 
 import pytest
 from fastapi import Request
 
+import litellm
+
+sys.path.insert(
+    0, os.path.abspath("../..")
+)  # Adds the parent directory to the system path
 from litellm.proxy._types import UserAPIKeyAuth
 from litellm.proxy.litellm_pre_call_utils import add_litellm_data_to_request
 from litellm.types.utils import SupportedCacheControls
@@ -13,7 +20,7 @@ from litellm.types.utils import SupportedCacheControls
 def mock_request(monkeypatch):
     mock_request = Mock(spec=Request)
     mock_request.query_params = {}  # Set mock query_params to an empty dictionary
-    mock_request.headers = {}
+    mock_request.headers = {"traceparent": "test_traceparent"}
     monkeypatch.setattr(
         "litellm.proxy.litellm_pre_call_utils.add_litellm_data_to_request", mock_request
     )
@@ -60,3 +67,38 @@ async def test_add_litellm_data_to_request_non_thread_endpoint(endpoint, mock_re
 
     assert "metadata" in data
     assert "litellm_metadata" not in data
+
+
+# test adding traceparent
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "endpoint", ["/chat/completions", "/v1/completions", "/completions"]
+)
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_traceparent_not_added_by_default(endpoint, mock_request):
+    """
+    This tests that traceparent is not forwarded in the extra_headers
+
+    We had an incident where bedrock calls were failing because traceparent was forwarded
+    """
+    from litellm.integrations.opentelemetry import OpenTelemetry
+
+    otel_logger = OpenTelemetry()
+    setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "open_telemetry_logger", otel_logger)
+
+    mock_request.url.path = endpoint
+    user_api_key_dict = UserAPIKeyAuth(
+        api_key="test_api_key", user_id="test_user_id", org_id="test_org_id"
+    )
+    proxy_config = Mock()
+
+    data = {}
+    await add_litellm_data_to_request(
+        data, mock_request, user_api_key_dict, proxy_config
+    )
+
+    print("DATA: ", data)
+
+    _extra_headers = data.get("extra_headers") or {}
+    assert "traceparent" not in _extra_headers