diff --git a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/litellm_logging.py b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/litellm_logging.py
index 8e6e2108dfc..29a29d376dc 100644
--- a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/litellm_logging.py
+++ b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/litellm_logging.py
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from mcp.types import EmbeddedResource, ImageContent, TextContent
 
     from litellm.integrations.otel.logger import OpenTelemetryV2
-    from litellm.integrations.otel.model.config import OpenTelemetryV2Config
+    from litellm.integrations.otel.model.config import ExporterSpec, OpenTelemetryV2Config
     from litellm.llms.base_llm.passthrough.transformation import BasePassthroughConfig
 try:
     from litellm_enterprise.enterprise_callbacks.callback_controls import (
@@ -4809,6 +4809,11 @@ def _maybe_construct_otel_v2(callback_name: str, _in_memory_loggers: list[Custom
     as it always did and the caller falls through to the legacy path, so the proxy
     never publishes a provider that exports nowhere for a backend the operator
     configured and no tenant can use.
+
+    The degraded preset keeps the operator's generic OTLP collector, so a proxy whose
+    only v2 backend is that preset still reaches it. Beside another v2 logger the
+    collector is already that logger's, and a second copy of every model span from
+    this one would land there too, so only the credential-gated exporter is kept.
     """
     from litellm.integrations.otel.model.config import is_otel_v2_enabled
 
@@ -4830,11 +4835,16 @@ def _maybe_construct_otel_v2(callback_name: str, _in_memory_loggers: list[Custom
         ):
             return callback
     try:
-        config: Final = preset_fn(allow_missing_credentials=serves_a_destination)
+        built: Final = preset_fn(allow_missing_credentials=serves_a_destination)
     except Exception:
         # If env vars are missing or the preset raises, defer to the legacy path
         # so customers get the same error story they had before V2 landed.
         return None
+    config: Final = (
+        _only_the_gated_exporter(built)
+        if _is_credential_gated(built) and any(isinstance(callback, OpenTelemetryV2) for callback in _in_memory_loggers)
+        else built
+    )
     if _exports_nowhere(config):
         verbose_logger.warning(
             "OTel V2: no operator credentials for '%s'; only key/team destinations will receive its traces",
@@ -4847,7 +4857,22 @@ def _maybe_construct_otel_v2(callback_name: str, _in_memory_loggers: list[Custom
 
 def _exports_nowhere(config: "OpenTelemetryV2Config") -> bool:
     """Whether every exporter in ``config`` is waiting on credentials it never got."""
-    return all(spec.requires_headers and not spec.headers for spec in config.exporters)
+    return all(_is_gated(spec) for spec in config.exporters)
+
+
+def _is_credential_gated(config: "OpenTelemetryV2Config") -> bool:
+    """Whether the preset built without the operator's own credentials for its backend."""
+    return any(_is_gated(spec) for spec in config.exporters)
+
+
+def _only_the_gated_exporter(config: "OpenTelemetryV2Config") -> "OpenTelemetryV2Config":
+    return config.model_copy(
+        update={"exporters": [spec for spec in config.exporters if _is_gated(spec)]}  # mutable-ok: model_copy update
+    )
+
+
+def _is_gated(spec: "ExporterSpec") -> bool:
+    return spec.requires_headers and not spec.headers
 
 
 def _maybe_auto_initialize_arize_phoenix(_in_memory_loggers: list[CustomLogger]) -> None:
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/integrations/otel/test_otel_v2_destinations.py b/tests/test_litellm/integrations/otel/test_otel_v2_destinations.py
index 7e40f333e07..4e793b480fb 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/integrations/otel/test_otel_v2_destinations.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/integrations/otel/test_otel_v2_destinations.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import litellm
 from litellm.integrations.otel import logger as otel_logger
 from litellm.integrations.otel.logger import (
     OpenTelemetryV2,
+    build_otel_v2_logger,
     fan_out_provider,
     publish_global_otel_v2_provider,
 )
@@ -1208,6 +1209,39 @@ class TestPresetDegradation:
         assert first is not None
         assert second is first
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _degraded_langfuse_beside(loggers, monkeypatch):
+        from litellm.litellm_core_utils.litellm_logging import _maybe_construct_otel_v2
+
+        credential_less_proxy(monkeypatch)
+        monkeypatch.setenv("OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT", "http://collector.local:4318")
+        monkeypatch.setenv("LITELLM_OTEL_V2", "true")
+
+        def run():
+            set_request_destinations((LANGFUSE_DEST,))
+            return _maybe_construct_otel_v2("langfuse_otel", loggers)
+
+        is_otel_v2_enabled.cache_clear()
+        logger = in_fresh_context(run)
+        is_otel_v2_enabled.cache_clear()
+        assert logger is not None
+        return logger
+
+    def test_a_degraded_logger_beside_another_v2_logger_leaves_the_collector_to_it(self, monkeypatch):
+        """The other logger's provider already exports every span to the operator's
+        collector, so a second model span from this one would land there twice."""
+        collector_logger = build_otel_v2_logger(OpenTelemetryV2Config(exporter="in_memory"))
+
+        logger = self._degraded_langfuse_beside([collector_logger], monkeypatch)
+
+        assert [spec.endpoint for spec in logger.config.exporters] == [None]
+        assert all(spec.requires_headers and not spec.headers for spec in logger.config.exporters)
+
+    def test_a_degraded_logger_on_its_own_keeps_the_operator_collector(self, monkeypatch):
+        logger = self._degraded_langfuse_beside([], monkeypatch)
+
+        assert [spec.endpoint for spec in logger.config.exporters] == ["http://collector.local:4318", None]
+
 
 class TestContextIsolation:
     def test_destinations_do_not_leak_between_requests(self):