diff --git a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQueryOptions.java b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQueryOptions.java
index 10ae77930c85..d0c989ae0841 100644
--- a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQueryOptions.java
+++ b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/BigQueryOptions.java
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 
 package com.google.cloud.bigquery;
 
-import com.google.api.core.BetaApi;
 import com.google.api.core.ObsoleteApi;
 import com.google.api.gax.retrying.ResultRetryAlgorithm;
 import com.google.cloud.ServiceDefaults;
@@ -127,9 +126,21 @@ public Builder setDataFormatOptions(DataFormatOptions dataFormatOptions) {
     /**
      * Enables OpenTelemetry tracing functionality for this BigQuery instance
      *
+     * <p><div class="warning"> Traces may contain sensitive data such as resource names, full URLs,
+     * and error messages.
+     *
+     * <p>Before configuring subscribers or exporters for traces, review the contents of the spans
+     * and consult the <a
+     * href="https://opentelemetry.io/docs/security/handling-sensitive-data/">OpenTelemetry
+     * documentation</a> to set up filters and formatters to prevent leaking sensitive information,
+     * depending on your intended use case.
+     *
+     * <p>See also: <a
+     * href="https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/semantic-conventions/">OpenTelemetry Semantic
+     * Conventions</a> </div>
+     *
      * @param enableOpenTelemetryTracing enables OpenTelemetry tracing if true
      */
-    @BetaApi
     public Builder setEnableOpenTelemetryTracing(boolean enableOpenTelemetryTracing) {
       this.enableOpenTelemetryTracing = enableOpenTelemetryTracing;
       return this;
@@ -138,9 +149,21 @@ public Builder setEnableOpenTelemetryTracing(boolean enableOpenTelemetryTracing)
     /**
      * Sets the OpenTelemetry tracer for this BigQuery instance to be tracer.
      *
+     * <p><div class="warning"> Traces may contain sensitive data such as resource names, full URLs,
+     * and error messages.
+     *
+     * <p>Before configuring subscribers or exporters for traces, review the contents of the spans
+     * and consult the <a
+     * href="https://opentelemetry.io/docs/security/handling-sensitive-data/">OpenTelemetry
+     * documentation</a> to set up filters and formatters to prevent leaking sensitive information,
+     * depending on your intended use case.
+     *
+     * <p>See also: <a
+     * href="https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/semantic-conventions/">OpenTelemetry Semantic
+     * Conventions</a> </div>
+     *
      * @param tracer OpenTelemetry tracer to be used
      */
-    @BetaApi
     public Builder setOpenTelemetryTracer(Tracer tracer) {
       this.openTelemetryTracer = tracer;
       return this;
@@ -282,7 +305,6 @@ public JobCreationMode getDefaultJobCreationMode() {
    *
    * @return true if tracing is enabled, false if not
    */
-  @BetaApi("Span names and attributes are subject to change without notice")
   public boolean isOpenTelemetryTracingEnabled() {
     return enableOpenTelemetryTracing;
   }
@@ -292,7 +314,6 @@ public boolean isOpenTelemetryTracingEnabled() {
    *
    * @return OpenTelemetry tracer object or {@code null} if not set
    */
-  @BetaApi("Span names and attributes are subject to change without notice")
   public Tracer getOpenTelemetryTracer() {
     return openTelemetryTracer;
   }
diff --git a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/spi/v2/HttpBigQueryRpc.java b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/spi/v2/HttpBigQueryRpc.java
index e789239b5589..b89cb99d4d64 100644
--- a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/spi/v2/HttpBigQueryRpc.java
+++ b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/spi/v2/HttpBigQueryRpc.java
@@ -88,8 +88,6 @@ public class HttpBigQueryRpc implements BigQueryRpc {
 
   public static final String DEFAULT_PROJECTION = "full";
   private static final String BASE_RESUMABLE_URI = "upload/bigquery/v2/projects/";
-  static final String HTTP_TRACING_DEV_GATE_PROPERTY =
-      "com.google.cloud.bigquery.http.tracing.dev.enabled";
   static final String RESOURCE_PROJECT_PREFIX = "//bigquery.googleapis.com/projects/";
   // see:
   // https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/loading-data-post-request#resume-upload
@@ -120,9 +118,7 @@ public HttpBigQueryRpc(BigQueryOptions options) {
     this.options = options;
     this.urlDomain = new GenericUrl(options.getResolvedApiaryHost("bigquery")).getHost();
 
-    if (options.isOpenTelemetryTracingEnabled()
-        && options.getOpenTelemetryTracer() != null
-        && isHttpTracingEnabled()) {
+    if (options.isOpenTelemetryTracingEnabled() && options.getOpenTelemetryTracer() != null) {
       initializer =
           new HttpTracingRequestInitializer(initializer, options.getOpenTelemetryTracer());
     }
@@ -2146,14 +2142,11 @@ private Span createRpcTracingSpan(
             .setSpanKind(SpanKind.CLIENT)
             .setAttribute("bq.rpc.service", service)
             .setAttribute("bq.rpc.method", method)
-            .setAttribute("bq.rpc.system", "http");
-    if (isHttpTracingEnabled()) {
-      builder
-          .setAttribute(
-              BigQueryTelemetryTracer.GCP_RESOURCE_DESTINATION_ID, gcpResourceDestinationId)
-          .setAttribute(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.URL_TEMPLATE, urlTemplate)
-          .setAttribute(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.URL_DOMAIN, this.urlDomain);
-    }
+            .setAttribute("bq.rpc.system", "http")
+            .setAttribute(
+                BigQueryTelemetryTracer.GCP_RESOURCE_DESTINATION_ID, gcpResourceDestinationId)
+            .setAttribute(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.URL_TEMPLATE, urlTemplate)
+            .setAttribute(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.URL_DOMAIN, this.urlDomain);
 
     if (options != null) {
       builder.setAllAttributes(otelAttributesFromOptions(options));
@@ -2175,13 +2168,11 @@ private <T> T executeWithSpan(Span span, SpanOperation<T> operation) throws IOEx
     try (Scope scope = span.makeCurrent()) {
       return operation.execute(span);
     } catch (Exception e) {
-      if (isHttpTracingEnabled()) {
-        if (e instanceof GoogleJsonResponseException) {
-          BigQueryTelemetryTracer.addServerErrorResponseToSpan(
-              ((GoogleJsonResponseException) e), span);
-        } else {
-          BigQueryTelemetryTracer.addExceptionToSpan(e, span);
-        }
+      if (e instanceof GoogleJsonResponseException) {
+        BigQueryTelemetryTracer.addServerErrorResponseToSpan(
+            ((GoogleJsonResponseException) e), span);
+      } else {
+        BigQueryTelemetryTracer.addExceptionToSpan(e, span);
       }
       throw e;
     } finally {
@@ -2202,13 +2193,4 @@ private static Attributes otelAttributesFromOptions(Map<Option, ?> options) {
     }
     return builder.build();
   }
-
-  /**
-   * Temporary development gate for HttpTracingRequestInitializer rollout: must be explicitly
-   * enabled with the system property. tracking ticket for removal:
-   * https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/issues/12100
-   */
-  static boolean isHttpTracingEnabled() {
-    return Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(HTTP_TRACING_DEV_GATE_PROPERTY));
-  }
 }
diff --git a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/telemetry/BigQueryTelemetryTracer.java b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/telemetry/BigQueryTelemetryTracer.java
index 559ed6632a53..091b0793d0b4 100644
--- a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/telemetry/BigQueryTelemetryTracer.java
+++ b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/telemetry/BigQueryTelemetryTracer.java
@@ -18,14 +18,12 @@
 
 import com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonError;
 import com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException;
-import com.google.api.core.BetaApi;
 import com.google.api.core.InternalApi;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributeKey;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.Span;
 import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.StatusCode;
 
 /** BigQuery Telemetry class that stores generic telemetry attributes and values */
-@BetaApi
 @InternalApi
 public final class BigQueryTelemetryTracer {
 
diff --git a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/telemetry/ErrorTypeUtil.java b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/telemetry/ErrorTypeUtil.java
index c769fbb19e65..19d947811629 100644
--- a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/telemetry/ErrorTypeUtil.java
+++ b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/telemetry/ErrorTypeUtil.java
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
  */
 package com.google.cloud.bigquery.telemetry;
 
-import com.google.api.core.BetaApi;
 import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
 
 /**
@@ -23,7 +22,6 @@
  * replaced with gax version when ready work tracked in
  * https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/issues/12105
  */
-@BetaApi
 @VisibleForTesting
 public class ErrorTypeUtil {
 
diff --git a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/telemetry/HttpTracingRequestInitializer.java b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/telemetry/HttpTracingRequestInitializer.java
index 35ab902bd0e8..20b647bef9c1 100644
--- a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/telemetry/HttpTracingRequestInitializer.java
+++ b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/telemetry/HttpTracingRequestInitializer.java
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 package com.google.cloud.bigquery.telemetry;
 
 import com.google.api.client.http.*;
-import com.google.api.core.BetaApi;
 import com.google.api.core.InternalApi;
 import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryRetryHelper;
 import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
@@ -33,7 +32,6 @@
  * HttpRequestInitializer that wraps a delegate initializer, intercepts all HTTP requests, adds
  * OpenTelemetry tracing and then invokes delegate interceptor.
  */
-@BetaApi
 @InternalApi
 public class HttpTracingRequestInitializer implements HttpRequestInitializer {
 
diff --git a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/it/ITOpenTelemetryTest.java b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/it/ITOpenTelemetryTest.java
index d42f193c56fd..bb6e4cdba0fa 100644
--- a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/it/ITOpenTelemetryTest.java
+++ b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/it/ITOpenTelemetryTest.java
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ public class ITOpenTelemetryTest {
 
   @BeforeAll
   public static void setUpClass() throws IOException {
-    System.setProperty("com.google.cloud.bigquery.http.tracing.dev.enabled", "true");
     bigqueryHelper = RemoteBigQueryHelper.create();
   }
 
diff --git a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/spi/v2/HttpBigQueryRpcTest.java b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/spi/v2/HttpBigQueryRpcTest.java
index 7a98b3b9dd07..33716417ed09 100644
--- a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/spi/v2/HttpBigQueryRpcTest.java
+++ b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/spi/v2/HttpBigQueryRpcTest.java
@@ -64,12 +64,7 @@
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Nested;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.parallel.Execution;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.parallel.ExecutionMode;
 
-// same thread execution temporarily required for using java system properties will get removed in
-// issue https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/issues/12100
-@Execution(ExecutionMode.SAME_THREAD)
 public class HttpBigQueryRpcTest {
 
   private static final String PROJECT_ID = "test-project";
@@ -225,7 +220,6 @@ class TelemetryEnabled {
     @BeforeEach
     public void setUp() {
       setUpServer();
-      System.setProperty("com.google.cloud.bigquery.http.tracing.dev.enabled", "true");
       rpc = createRpc(true);
     }
 
@@ -1200,111 +1194,6 @@ public void testUrlDomain_OverriddenValue() throws Exception {
     }
   }
 
-  @Nested
-  class TelemetryEnabledDevDisabled {
-    private HttpBigQueryRpc rpc;
-
-    @BeforeEach
-    public void setUp() {
-      setUpServer();
-      System.clearProperty("com.google.cloud.bigquery.http.tracing.dev.enabled");
-      rpc = createRpc(true);
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    public void testHttpTracingDisabledDoesNotAddAdditionalAttributes() throws Exception {
-      setMockResponse(
-          "{\"kind\":\"bigquery#dataset\",\"id\":\""
-              + PROJECT_ID
-              + ":"
-              + DATASET_ID
-              + "\",\"datasetReference\":{\"projectId\":\""
-              + PROJECT_ID
-              + "\",\"datasetId\":\""
-              + DATASET_ID
-              + "\"}}");
-
-      rpc.getDatasetSkipExceptionTranslation(PROJECT_ID, DATASET_ID, new HashMap<>());
-
-      verifyRequest("GET", "/projects/" + PROJECT_ID + "/datasets/" + DATASET_ID);
-
-      List<SpanData> spans = spanExporter.getFinishedSpanItems();
-      assertThat(spans).isNotEmpty();
-      SpanData rpcSpan =
-          spans.stream()
-              .filter(
-                  span -> span.getName().equals("com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryRpc.getDataset"))
-              .findFirst()
-              .orElse(null);
-      assertNotNull(rpcSpan);
-      verifySpanProductionAttributes(
-          "DatasetService",
-          "GetDataset",
-          Collections.singletonMap("bq.rpc.response.dataset.id", PROJECT_ID + ":" + DATASET_ID),
-          rpcSpan);
-
-      assertNull(rpcSpan.getAttributes().get(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.RPC_SYSTEM_NAME));
-      assertNull(rpcSpan.getAttributes().get(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.GCP_CLIENT_SERVICE));
-      assertNull(
-          rpcSpan.getAttributes().get(AttributeKey.stringKey("url.template")),
-          "url.template attribute should not be set");
-      assertNull(rpcSpan.getAttributes().get(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.GCP_RESOURCE_DESTINATION_ID));
-      assertNull(rpcSpan.getAttributes().get(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.URL_DOMAIN));
-      assertNull(
-          rpcSpan.getAttributes().get(HttpTracingRequestInitializer.HTTP_REQUEST_RESEND_COUNT));
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    public void testHttpTracingDisabled_GenericException_DoesNotSetAttributes() throws Exception {
-      assertThrows(
-          IOException.class,
-          () -> {
-            rpc.getDatasetSkipExceptionTranslation(PROJECT_ID, DATASET_ID, new HashMap<>());
-          });
-
-      List<io.opentelemetry.sdk.trace.data.SpanData> spans = spanExporter.getFinishedSpanItems();
-      assertThat(spans).isNotEmpty();
-      io.opentelemetry.sdk.trace.data.SpanData rpcSpan =
-          spans.stream()
-              .filter(
-                  span -> span.getName().equals("com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryRpc.getDataset"))
-              .findFirst()
-              .orElse(null);
-      assertNotNull(rpcSpan);
-      assertNull(rpcSpan.getAttributes().get(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.EXCEPTION_TYPE));
-      assertNull(rpcSpan.getAttributes().get(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.ERROR_TYPE));
-      assertNull(rpcSpan.getAttributes().get(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.STATUS_MESSAGE));
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    public void testHttpTracingDisabled_GoogleJsonResponseException_DoesNotSetAttributes()
-        throws Exception {
-      mockResponse.setStatusCode(400);
-      mockResponse.setContentType(Json.MEDIA_TYPE);
-      mockResponse.setContent(
-          "{\"error\":{\"code\":400,\"message\":\"Invalid request\",\"errors\":[{\"message\":\"Invalid request\",\"domain\":\"global\",\"reason\":\"invalid\"}]}}");
-
-      assertThrows(
-          IOException.class,
-          () -> {
-            rpc.getDatasetSkipExceptionTranslation(PROJECT_ID, DATASET_ID, new HashMap<>());
-          });
-
-      List<io.opentelemetry.sdk.trace.data.SpanData> spans = spanExporter.getFinishedSpanItems();
-      assertThat(spans).isNotEmpty();
-      io.opentelemetry.sdk.trace.data.SpanData rpcSpan =
-          spans.stream()
-              .filter(
-                  span -> span.getName().equals("com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryRpc.getDataset"))
-              .findFirst()
-              .orElse(null);
-      assertNotNull(rpcSpan);
-      assertNull(rpcSpan.getAttributes().get(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.EXCEPTION_TYPE));
-      assertNull(rpcSpan.getAttributes().get(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.ERROR_TYPE));
-      assertNull(rpcSpan.getAttributes().get(BigQueryTelemetryTracer.STATUS_MESSAGE));
-    }
-  }
-
   @Nested
   class TelemetryDisabled {
     private HttpBigQueryRpc rpc;
@@ -1312,7 +1201,6 @@ class TelemetryDisabled {
     @BeforeEach
     public void setUp() {
       setUpServer();
-      System.clearProperty("com.google.cloud.bigquery.http.tracing.dev.enabled");
       rpc = createRpc(false);
     }