diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index c710db628c..8e7a965d64 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.9.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.30.0
-	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus v0.51.0
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus v0.52.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v1.30.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk v1.30.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric v1.30.0
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 // indirect
 	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.1-0.20181226105442-5d4384ee4fb2 // indirect
 	github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.6.1 // indirect
-	github.com/prometheus/common v0.56.0 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/common v0.59.1 // indirect
 	github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.15.1 // indirect
 	github.com/samber/lo v1.38.1 // indirect
 	github.com/shopspring/decimal v1.3.1 // indirect
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 34888411f1..19852a30eb 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -219,8 +219,8 @@ github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.20.3 h1:oPksm4K8B+Vt35tUhw6GbSNSgVlVSBH0q
 github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.20.3/go.mod h1:PIEt8X02hGcP8JWbeHyeZ53Y/jReSnHgO035n//V5WE=
 github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.6.1 h1:ZKSh/rekM+n3CeS952MLRAdFwIKqeY8b62p8ais2e9E=
 github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.6.1/go.mod h1:OrxVMOVHjw3lKMa8+x6HeMGkHMQyHDk9E3jmP2AmGiY=
-github.com/prometheus/common v0.56.0 h1:UffReloqkBtvtQEYDg2s+uDPGRrJyC6vZWPGXf6OhPY=
-github.com/prometheus/common v0.56.0/go.mod h1:7uRPFSUTbfZWsJ7MHY56sqt7hLQu3bxXHDnNhl8E9qI=
+github.com/prometheus/common v0.59.1 h1:LXb1quJHWm1P6wq/U824uxYi4Sg0oGvNeUm1z5dJoX0=
+github.com/prometheus/common v0.59.1/go.mod h1:GpWM7dewqmVYcd7SmRaiWVe9SSqjf0UrwnYnpEZNuT0=
 github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.15.1 h1:YagwOFzUgYfKKHX6Dr+sHT7km/hxC76UB0learggepc=
 github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.15.1/go.mod h1:fB45yRUv8NstnjriLhBQLuOUt+WW4BsoGhij/e3PBqk=
 github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.12.0 h1:exVL4IDcn6na9z1rAb56Vxr+CgyK3nn3O+epU5NdKM8=
@@ -288,8 +288,8 @@ go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace v1.29.0 h1:dIIDULZJpgdiHz5tXrT
 go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace v1.29.0/go.mod h1:jlRVBe7+Z1wyxFSUs48L6OBQZ5JwH2Hg/Vbl+t9rAgI=
 go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc v1.29.0 h1:nSiV3s7wiCam610XcLbYOmMfJxB9gO4uK3Xgv5gmTgg=
 go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc v1.29.0/go.mod h1:hKn/e/Nmd19/x1gvIHwtOwVWM+VhuITSWip3JUDghj0=
-go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus v0.51.0 h1:G7uexXb/K3T+T9fNLCCKncweEtNEBMTO+46hKX5EdKw=
-go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus v0.51.0/go.mod h1:v0mFe5Kk7woIh938mrZBJBmENYquyA0IICrlYm4Y0t4=
+go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus v0.52.0 h1:kmU3H0b9ufFSi8IQCcxack+sWUblKkFbqWYs6YiACGQ=
+go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus v0.52.0/go.mod h1:+wsAp2+JhuGXX7YRkjlkx6hyWY3ogFPfNA4x3nyiAh0=
 go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v1.30.0 h1:4xNulvn9gjzo4hjg+wzIKG7iNFEaBMX00Qd4QIZs7+w=
 go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v1.30.0/go.mod h1:aXTfST94tswhWEb+5QjlSqG+cZlmyXy/u8jFpor3WqQ=
 go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk v1.30.0 h1:cHdik6irO49R5IysVhdn8oaiR9m8XluDaJAs4DfOrYE=
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/prometheus/common/expfmt/expfmt.go b/vendor/github.com/prometheus/common/expfmt/expfmt.go
index 14034a673a..d942af8edd 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/prometheus/common/expfmt/expfmt.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/prometheus/common/expfmt/expfmt.go
@@ -112,6 +112,29 @@ func NewOpenMetricsFormat(version string) (Format, error) {
 	return FmtUnknown, fmt.Errorf("unknown open metrics version string")
 }
 
+// WithEscapingScheme returns a copy of Format with the specified escaping
+// scheme appended to the end. If an escaping scheme already exists it is
+// removed.
+func (f Format) WithEscapingScheme(s model.EscapingScheme) Format {
+	var terms []string
+	for _, p := range strings.Split(string(f), ";") {
+		toks := strings.Split(p, "=")
+		if len(toks) != 2 {
+			trimmed := strings.TrimSpace(p)
+			if len(trimmed) > 0 {
+				terms = append(terms, trimmed)
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		key := strings.TrimSpace(toks[0])
+		if key != model.EscapingKey {
+			terms = append(terms, strings.TrimSpace(p))
+		}
+	}
+	terms = append(terms, model.EscapingKey+"="+s.String())
+	return Format(strings.Join(terms, "; "))
+}
+
 // FormatType deduces an overall FormatType for the given format.
 func (f Format) FormatType() FormatType {
 	toks := strings.Split(string(f), ";")
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/prometheus/common/expfmt/text_parse.go b/vendor/github.com/prometheus/common/expfmt/text_parse.go
index 25db4f2151..f085a923f6 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/prometheus/common/expfmt/text_parse.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/prometheus/common/expfmt/text_parse.go
@@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ type TextParser struct {
 	// count and sum of that summary/histogram.
 	currentIsSummaryCount, currentIsSummarySum     bool
 	currentIsHistogramCount, currentIsHistogramSum bool
-	currentMetricIsInsideBraces                    bool
+	// These indicate if the metric name from the current line being parsed is inside
+	// braces and if that metric name was found respectively.
+	currentMetricIsInsideBraces, currentMetricInsideBracesIsPresent bool
 }
 
 // TextToMetricFamilies reads 'in' as the simple and flat text-based exchange
@@ -147,6 +149,7 @@ func (p *TextParser) reset(in io.Reader) {
 func (p *TextParser) startOfLine() stateFn {
 	p.lineCount++
 	p.currentMetricIsInsideBraces = false
+	p.currentMetricInsideBracesIsPresent = false
 	if p.skipBlankTab(); p.err != nil {
 		// This is the only place that we expect to see io.EOF,
 		// which is not an error but the signal that we are done.
@@ -301,17 +304,24 @@ func (p *TextParser) startLabelName() stateFn {
 	}
 	if p.currentByte != '=' {
 		if p.currentMetricIsInsideBraces {
-			if p.currentMF != nil && p.currentMF.GetName() != p.currentToken.String() {
-				p.parseError(fmt.Sprintf("multiple metric names %s %s", p.currentMF.GetName(), p.currentToken.String()))
+			if p.currentMetricInsideBracesIsPresent {
+				p.parseError(fmt.Sprintf("multiple metric names for metric %q", p.currentMF.GetName()))
 				return nil
 			}
 			switch p.currentByte {
 			case ',':
 				p.setOrCreateCurrentMF()
+				if p.currentMF.Type == nil {
+					p.currentMF.Type = dto.MetricType_UNTYPED.Enum()
+				}
 				p.currentMetric = &dto.Metric{}
+				p.currentMetricInsideBracesIsPresent = true
 				return p.startLabelName
 			case '}':
 				p.setOrCreateCurrentMF()
+				if p.currentMF.Type == nil {
+					p.currentMF.Type = dto.MetricType_UNTYPED.Enum()
+				}
 				p.currentMetric = &dto.Metric{}
 				p.currentMetric.Label = append(p.currentMetric.Label, p.currentLabelPairs...)
 				p.currentLabelPairs = nil
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/prometheus/common/model/metric.go b/vendor/github.com/prometheus/common/model/metric.go
index c44f93f314..f50966bc49 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/prometheus/common/model/metric.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/prometheus/common/model/metric.go
@@ -34,10 +34,13 @@ var (
 	// goroutines are started.
 	NameValidationScheme = LegacyValidation
 
-	// NameEscapingScheme defines the default way that names will be
-	// escaped when presented to systems that do not support UTF-8 names. If the
-	// Content-Type "escaping" term is specified, that will override this value.
-	NameEscapingScheme = ValueEncodingEscaping
+	// NameEscapingScheme defines the default way that names will be escaped when
+	// presented to systems that do not support UTF-8 names. If the Content-Type
+	// "escaping" term is specified, that will override this value.
+	// NameEscapingScheme should not be set to the NoEscaping value. That string
+	// is used in content negotiation to indicate that a system supports UTF-8 and
+	// has that feature enabled.
+	NameEscapingScheme = UnderscoreEscaping
 )
 
 // ValidationScheme is a Go enum for determining how metric and label names will
diff --git a/vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus/config.go b/vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus/config.go
index a10ab7f1df..660675dd62 100644
--- a/vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus/config.go
+++ b/vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus/config.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
+	"github.com/prometheus/common/model"
 
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric"
@@ -131,7 +132,10 @@ func WithoutScopeInfo() Option {
 // have special behavior based on their name.
 func WithNamespace(ns string) Option {
 	return optionFunc(func(cfg config) config {
-		ns = sanitizeName(ns)
+		if model.NameValidationScheme != model.UTF8Validation {
+			// Only sanitize if prometheus does not support UTF-8.
+			ns = model.EscapeName(ns, model.NameEscapingScheme)
+		}
 		if !strings.HasSuffix(ns, "_") {
 			// namespace and metric names should be separated with an underscore,
 			// adds a trailing underscore if there is not one already.
diff --git a/vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus/exporter.go b/vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus/exporter.go
index d2e387e607..b0f5f3730d 100644
--- a/vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus/exporter.go
+++ b/vendor/go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus/exporter.go
@@ -11,11 +11,10 @@ import (
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
-	"unicode"
-	"unicode/utf8"
 
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
 	dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go"
+	"github.com/prometheus/common/model"
 	"google.golang.org/protobuf/proto"
 
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel"
@@ -298,28 +297,38 @@ func addGaugeMetric[N int64 | float64](ch chan<- prometheus.Metric, gauge metric
 }
 
 // getAttrs parses the attribute.Set to two lists of matching Prometheus-style
-// keys and values. It sanitizes invalid characters and handles duplicate keys
-// (due to sanitization) by sorting and concatenating the values following the spec.
+// keys and values.
 func getAttrs(attrs attribute.Set, ks, vs [2]string, resourceKV keyVals) ([]string, []string) {
-	keysMap := make(map[string][]string)
-	itr := attrs.Iter()
-	for itr.Next() {
-		kv := itr.Attribute()
-		key := strings.Map(sanitizeRune, string(kv.Key))
-		if _, ok := keysMap[key]; !ok {
-			keysMap[key] = []string{kv.Value.Emit()}
-		} else {
-			// if the sanitized key is a duplicate, append to the list of keys
-			keysMap[key] = append(keysMap[key], kv.Value.Emit())
-		}
-	}
-
 	keys := make([]string, 0, attrs.Len())
 	values := make([]string, 0, attrs.Len())
-	for key, vals := range keysMap {
-		keys = append(keys, key)
-		slices.Sort(vals)
-		values = append(values, strings.Join(vals, ";"))
+	itr := attrs.Iter()
+
+	if model.NameValidationScheme == model.UTF8Validation {
+		// Do not perform sanitization if prometheus supports UTF-8.
+		for itr.Next() {
+			kv := itr.Attribute()
+			keys = append(keys, string(kv.Key))
+			values = append(values, kv.Value.Emit())
+		}
+	} else {
+		// It sanitizes invalid characters and handles duplicate keys
+		// (due to sanitization) by sorting and concatenating the values following the spec.
+		keysMap := make(map[string][]string)
+		for itr.Next() {
+			kv := itr.Attribute()
+			key := model.EscapeName(string(kv.Key), model.NameEscapingScheme)
+			if _, ok := keysMap[key]; !ok {
+				keysMap[key] = []string{kv.Value.Emit()}
+			} else {
+				// if the sanitized key is a duplicate, append to the list of keys
+				keysMap[key] = append(keysMap[key], kv.Value.Emit())
+			}
+		}
+		for key, vals := range keysMap {
+			keys = append(keys, key)
+			slices.Sort(vals)
+			values = append(values, strings.Join(vals, ";"))
+		}
 	}
 
 	if ks[0] != "" {
@@ -347,13 +356,6 @@ func createScopeInfoMetric(scope instrumentation.Scope) (prometheus.Metric, erro
 	return prometheus.NewConstMetric(desc, prometheus.GaugeValue, float64(1), scope.Name, scope.Version)
 }
 
-func sanitizeRune(r rune) rune {
-	if unicode.IsLetter(r) || unicode.IsDigit(r) || r == ':' || r == '_' {
-		return r
-	}
-	return '_'
-}
-
 var unitSuffixes = map[string]string{
 	// Time
 	"d":   "_days",
@@ -392,7 +394,11 @@ var unitSuffixes = map[string]string{
 
 // getName returns the sanitized name, prefixed with the namespace and suffixed with unit.
 func (c *collector) getName(m metricdata.Metrics, typ *dto.MetricType) string {
-	name := sanitizeName(m.Name)
+	name := m.Name
+	if model.NameValidationScheme != model.UTF8Validation {
+		// Only sanitize if prometheus does not support UTF-8.
+		name = model.EscapeName(name, model.NameEscapingScheme)
+	}
 	addCounterSuffix := !c.withoutCounterSuffixes && *typ == dto.MetricType_COUNTER
 	if addCounterSuffix {
 		// Remove the _total suffix here, as we will re-add the total suffix
@@ -411,59 +417,6 @@ func (c *collector) getName(m metricdata.Metrics, typ *dto.MetricType) string {
 	return name
 }
 
-func sanitizeName(n string) string {
-	// This algorithm is based on strings.Map from Go 1.19.
-	const replacement = '_'
-
-	valid := func(i int, r rune) bool {
-		// Taken from
-		// https://github.com/prometheus/common/blob/dfbc25bd00225c70aca0d94c3c4bb7744f28ace0/model/metric.go#L92-L102
-		if (r >= 'a' && r <= 'z') || (r >= 'A' && r <= 'Z') || r == '_' || r == ':' || (r >= '0' && r <= '9' && i > 0) {
-			return true
-		}
-		return false
-	}
-
-	// This output buffer b is initialized on demand, the first time a
-	// character needs to be replaced.
-	var b strings.Builder
-	for i, c := range n {
-		if valid(i, c) {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		if i == 0 && c >= '0' && c <= '9' {
-			// Prefix leading number with replacement character.
-			b.Grow(len(n) + 1)
-			_ = b.WriteByte(byte(replacement))
-			break
-		}
-		b.Grow(len(n))
-		_, _ = b.WriteString(n[:i])
-		_ = b.WriteByte(byte(replacement))
-		width := utf8.RuneLen(c)
-		n = n[i+width:]
-		break
-	}
-
-	// Fast path for unchanged input.
-	if b.Cap() == 0 { // b.Grow was not called above.
-		return n
-	}
-
-	for _, c := range n {
-		// Due to inlining, it is more performant to invoke WriteByte rather then
-		// WriteRune.
-		if valid(1, c) { // We are guaranteed to not be at the start.
-			_ = b.WriteByte(byte(c))
-		} else {
-			_ = b.WriteByte(byte(replacement))
-		}
-	}
-
-	return b.String()
-}
-
 func (c *collector) metricType(m metricdata.Metrics) *dto.MetricType {
 	switch v := m.Data.(type) {
 	case metricdata.Histogram[int64], metricdata.Histogram[float64]:
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 7e7fc73d6b..cda059b2f4 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/testutil/promlint/validations
 # github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.6.1
 ## explicit; go 1.19
 github.com/prometheus/client_model/go
-# github.com/prometheus/common v0.56.0
+# github.com/prometheus/common v0.59.1
 ## explicit; go 1.20
 github.com/prometheus/common/expfmt
 github.com/prometheus/common/model
@@ -518,8 +518,8 @@ go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc/internal
 go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc/internal/envconfig
 go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc/internal/otlpconfig
 go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc/internal/retry
-# go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus v0.51.0
-## explicit; go 1.21
+# go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus v0.52.0
+## explicit; go 1.22
 go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus
 # go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v1.30.0
 ## explicit; go 1.22