diff --git a/litellm/constants.py b/litellm/constants.py
index 7b18adc0688..613df5ebf8f 100644
--- a/litellm/constants.py
+++ b/litellm/constants.py
@@ -1677,8 +1677,6 @@ LITELLM_LOGGING_NO_UPSTREAM_LLM_CALL: Final = "litellm_no_upstream_llm_call"
 # the key's values after the team metadata merge so a key outranks its team).
 OTEL_SERVICE_NAME_METADATA_KEYS: Final = ("otel_service_name_override", "otel_service_name")
 
-# ``litellm_settings: otel_tenant_internal_spans`` value (and its env equivalent) that
-# keeps the proxy's own SERVICE and DB_CALL spans out of tenant OTel destinations.
 OTEL_EXCLUDE_INTERNAL_SPANS: Final = "exclude"
 OTEL_TENANT_INTERNAL_SPANS_ENV: Final = "LITELLM_OTEL_TENANT_INTERNAL_SPANS"
 
diff --git a/litellm/integrations/otel/plumbing/context.py b/litellm/integrations/otel/plumbing/context.py
index e6d94747f7d..dd3d60305bf 100644
--- a/litellm/integrations/otel/plumbing/context.py
+++ b/litellm/integrations/otel/plumbing/context.py
@@ -403,11 +403,7 @@ def tenant_destinations_are_additive() -> bool:
 
 
 def tenant_internal_spans_default() -> OtelInternalSpans:
-    """The ``internal_spans`` a tenant destination gets when its own callback vars name none.
-
-    Include is the default, so a destination keeps the whole request tree unless the
-    operator or the team asks for the proxy's own SERVICE and DB_CALL spans to stay home.
-    """
+    """The ``internal_spans`` a tenant destination gets when its own callback vars name none."""
     import litellm
 
     configured: Final = litellm.otel_tenant_internal_spans or os.environ.get(OTEL_TENANT_INTERNAL_SPANS_ENV)
diff --git a/litellm/integrations/otel/plumbing/providers.py b/litellm/integrations/otel/plumbing/providers.py
index 2752bd473ec..194f1657712 100644
--- a/litellm/integrations/otel/plumbing/providers.py
+++ b/litellm/integrations/otel/plumbing/providers.py
@@ -441,12 +441,7 @@ def _in_scope(span: ReadableSpan, scope: "OtelSpanScope") -> bool:
 
 
 def _is_internal_span(span: ReadableSpan) -> bool:
-    """Whether ``span`` is the proxy's own work rather than the request or the tenant's call.
-
-    The request root is the SERVER span; the model call, the MCP call and the guardrail
-    each carry one of the tenant-owned keys. Everything else the proxy emits inside a
-    request is a SERVICE or DB_CALL span: auth, Redis, Postgres, spend writes.
-    """
+    """A SERVICE or DB_CALL span: neither the request root nor a tenant-owned model, MCP or guardrail span."""
     return span.kind is not SpanKind.SERVER and not _is_tenant_owned_span(span.attributes or _NO_ATTRIBUTES)