diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 51019eb7712..ea07db85bcf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ### 🛑 Breaking changes 🛑
 
 - Remove deprecated structs/funcs from previous versions (#5131)
+- Do not set TraceProvider to global otel (#5138)
 
 ### 🚩 Deprecations 🚩
 
diff --git a/service/collector.go b/service/collector.go
index b5aa8fa69d9..70b93645087 100644
--- a/service/collector.go
+++ b/service/collector.go
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ import (
 	"syscall"
 
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/zpages"
-	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric/nonrecording"
 	sdktrace "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/trace"
@@ -231,10 +230,6 @@ func (col *Collector) Run(ctx context.Context) error {
 		sdktrace.WithSampler(internal.AlwaysRecord()),
 		sdktrace.WithSpanProcessor(col.zPagesSpanProcessor))
 
-	// Set the constructed tracer provider as Global, in case any component uses the
-	// global TracerProvider.
-	otel.SetTracerProvider(col.tracerProvider)
-
 	col.meterProvider = nonrecording.NewNoopMeterProvider()
 
 	col.asyncErrorChannel = make(chan error)