diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/integrations/clickhouse/test_clickhouse_spend_logger.py b/tests/test_litellm/integrations/clickhouse/test_clickhouse_spend_logger.py
index d8a1de72160..4a15bdd6dc6 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/integrations/clickhouse/test_clickhouse_spend_logger.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/integrations/clickhouse/test_clickhouse_spend_logger.py
@@ -187,6 +187,17 @@ async def test_missing_payload_and_bad_payload_never_raise():
     assert logger.log_queue == []
 
 
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_trace_ingest_requests_are_not_logged_as_spend():
+    # OTLP exports hit POST /v1/traces; they are not LLM calls and must not create spend rows
+    logger = ClickHouseSpendLogger(client=MagicMock())
+    payload = _payload(call_type="/v1/traces", status="failure")
+
+    await logger.async_log_failure_event({"standard_logging_object": payload}, None, None, None)
+
+    assert logger.log_queue == []
+
+
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
 async def test_clickhouse_callback_resolves_via_factory(monkeypatch):
     monkeypatch.setenv("CLICKHOUSE_URL", "http://localhost:8123")