diff --git a/components/camel-opentelemetry/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/opentelemetry/CamelOpenTelemetryTestSupport.java b/components/camel-opentelemetry/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/opentelemetry/CamelOpenTelemetryTestSupport.java
index 26977d6d8f8ce..4c9c6a1e8fd8c 100644
--- a/components/camel-opentelemetry/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/opentelemetry/CamelOpenTelemetryTestSupport.java
+++ b/components/camel-opentelemetry/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/opentelemetry/CamelOpenTelemetryTestSupport.java
@@ -33,9 +33,11 @@
 import io.opentelemetry.context.Context;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.logs.data.LogRecordData;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.trace.data.SpanData;
+import org.apache.camel.BindToRegistry;
 import org.apache.camel.CamelContext;
 import org.apache.camel.CamelContextAware;
 import org.apache.camel.spi.InterceptStrategy;
+import org.apache.camel.spi.ThreadPoolFactory;
 import org.apache.camel.test.junit5.CamelTestSupport;
 import org.awaitility.Awaitility;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
@@ -63,6 +65,9 @@ class CamelOpenTelemetryTestSupport extends CamelTestSupport {
     @RegisterExtension
     public final CamelOpenTelemetryExtension otelExtension = CamelOpenTelemetryExtension.create();
 
+    @BindToRegistry
+    ThreadPoolFactory threadPoolFactory = new OpenTelemetryInstrumentedThreadPoolFactory();
+
     SpanTestData[] expected;
     Tracer tracer;
     OpenTelemetryTracer otTracer;