diff --git a/extensions/opentelemetry/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/opentelemetry/runtime/exporter/otlp/VertxGrpcExporter.java b/extensions/opentelemetry/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/opentelemetry/runtime/exporter/otlp/VertxGrpcExporter.java
index 5e034cdbd2416..489714f9151d2 100644
--- a/extensions/opentelemetry/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/opentelemetry/runtime/exporter/otlp/VertxGrpcExporter.java
+++ b/extensions/opentelemetry/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/opentelemetry/runtime/exporter/otlp/VertxGrpcExporter.java
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ final class VertxGrpcExporter implements SpanExporter {
     // We only log unimplemented once since it's a configuration issue that won't be recovered.
     private final AtomicBoolean loggedUnimplemented = new AtomicBoolean();
     private final AtomicBoolean isShutdown = new AtomicBoolean();
+    private final CompletableResultCode shutdownResult = new CompletableResultCode();
     private final String type;
     private final ExporterMetrics exporterMetrics;
     private final SocketAddress server;
@@ -137,11 +138,25 @@ public CompletableResultCode flush() {
     @Override
     public CompletableResultCode shutdown() {
         if (!isShutdown.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
-            logger.log(Level.INFO, "Calling shutdown() multiple times.");
-            return CompletableResultCode.ofSuccess();
+            logger.log(Level.FINE, "Calling shutdown() multiple times.");
+            return shutdownResult;
         }
-        client.close();
-        return CompletableResultCode.ofSuccess();
+
+        client.close()
+                .onSuccess(
+                        new Handler<>() {
+                            @Override
+                            public void handle(Void event) {
+                                shutdownResult.succeed();
+                            }
+                        })
+                .onFailure(new Handler<>() {
+                    @Override
+                    public void handle(Throwable event) {
+                        shutdownResult.fail();
+                    }
+                });
+        return shutdownResult;
     }
 
     private static final class ClientRequestOnSuccessHandler implements Handler<GrpcClientRequest<Buffer, Buffer>> {
diff --git a/extensions/opentelemetry/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/opentelemetry/runtime/exporter/otlp/VertxHttpExporter.java b/extensions/opentelemetry/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/opentelemetry/runtime/exporter/otlp/VertxHttpExporter.java
index ed09c04c0541a..d3ec075c606d5 100644
--- a/extensions/opentelemetry/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/opentelemetry/runtime/exporter/otlp/VertxHttpExporter.java
+++ b/extensions/opentelemetry/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/opentelemetry/runtime/exporter/otlp/VertxHttpExporter.java
@@ -8,13 +8,17 @@
 import java.time.Duration;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
 import java.util.function.Consumer;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
 import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;
 
 import io.opentelemetry.exporter.internal.http.HttpExporter;
 import io.opentelemetry.exporter.internal.http.HttpSender;
 import io.opentelemetry.exporter.internal.otlp.traces.TraceRequestMarshaler;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.common.CompletableResultCode;
+import io.opentelemetry.sdk.internal.ThrottlingLogger;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.trace.data.SpanData;
 import io.opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export.SpanExporter;
 import io.quarkus.vertx.core.runtime.BufferOutputStream;
@@ -31,6 +35,9 @@
 
 final class VertxHttpExporter implements SpanExporter {
 
+    private static final Logger internalLogger = Logger.getLogger(VertxHttpExporter.class.getName());
+    private static final ThrottlingLogger logger = new ThrottlingLogger(internalLogger);
+
     private final HttpExporter<TraceRequestMarshaler> delegate;
 
     VertxHttpExporter(HttpExporter<TraceRequestMarshaler> delegate) {
@@ -83,6 +90,9 @@ static final class VertxHttpSender implements HttpSender {
             this.client = vertx.createHttpClient(httpClientOptions);
         }
 
+        private final AtomicBoolean isShutdown = new AtomicBoolean();
+        private final CompletableResultCode shutdownResult = new CompletableResultCode();
+
         private static String determineBasePath(URI baseUri) {
             String path = baseUri.getPath();
             if (path.isEmpty() || path.equals("/")) {
@@ -173,8 +183,26 @@ public byte[] responseBody() {
 
         @Override
         public CompletableResultCode shutdown() {
-            client.close();
-            return CompletableResultCode.ofSuccess();
+            if (!isShutdown.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+                logger.log(Level.FINE, "Calling shutdown() multiple times.");
+                return shutdownResult;
+            }
+
+            client.close()
+                    .onSuccess(
+                            new Handler<>() {
+                                @Override
+                                public void handle(Void event) {
+                                    shutdownResult.succeed();
+                                }
+                            })
+                    .onFailure(new Handler<>() {
+                        @Override
+                        public void handle(Throwable event) {
+                            shutdownResult.fail();
+                        }
+                    });
+            return shutdownResult;
         }
     }
 }