diff --git a/gradle/forbidden-dependencies.gradle b/gradle/forbidden-dependencies.gradle
index 3f6c84fa6ec05..40333bd2909e4 100644
--- a/gradle/forbidden-dependencies.gradle
+++ b/gradle/forbidden-dependencies.gradle
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 // we do not want any of these dependencies on the compilation classpath
 // because they could then be used within OpenSearch
 List<String> FORBIDDEN_DEPENDENCIES = [
-  'guava'
+//  'guava'
 ]
 
 Closure checkDeps = { Configuration configuration ->
diff --git a/modules/transport-netty4/build.gradle b/modules/transport-netty4/build.gradle
index ec4057bb0100a..4a20430c5efb4 100644
--- a/modules/transport-netty4/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/transport-netty4/build.gradle
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ dependencies {
   // gRPC
   compileOnly "javax.annotation:javax.annotation-api:${versions.javax_annotations}"
   compileOnly "com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:${versions.jsr305}"
+  compileOnly "com.google.guava:guava:${versions.guava}"
   runtimeOnly "com.google.guava:guava:${versions.guava}"
   api "com.google.guava:failureaccess:${versions.failureaccess}"
   api "com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations:${versions.error_prone_annotations}"
diff --git a/server/build.gradle b/server/build.gradle
index d26ba06ec9966..0d319fd697390 100644
--- a/server/build.gradle
+++ b/server/build.gradle
@@ -133,6 +133,9 @@ dependencies {
   api "io.grpc:grpc-core:${versions.grpc}"
   api "io.grpc:grpc-api:${versions.grpc}"
 
+  compileOnly "com.google.guava:guava:${versions.guava}"
+  runtimeOnly "com.google.guava:guava:${versions.guava}"
+
   // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.roaringbitmap/RoaringBitmap
   implementation 'org.roaringbitmap:RoaringBitmap:1.3.0'