diff --git a/docs/changes/newsfragments/5278.improved b/docs/changes/newsfragments/5278.improved
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..955ad574e47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changes/newsfragments/5278.improved
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Very noisy log messages from `azure.monitor.opentelemetry.exporter` are now
+by default filtered and not shown in the console logger. This matches the
+behavior of the OpenCensus exporter.
diff --git a/qcodes/__init__.py b/qcodes/__init__.py
index 24fc70937f7..692dcc960cc 100644
--- a/qcodes/__init__.py
+++ b/qcodes/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 """Set up the main qcodes namespace."""
 
-# flake8: noqa (we don't need the "<...> imported but unused" error)
+# ruff: noqa: F401, E402
+# This module still contains a lot of short hand imports
+# since these imports are discouraged and they are officially
+# added elsewhere under their respective submodules we cannot add
+# them to __all__ here so silence the warning.
 
 # config
 import warnings
diff --git a/qcodes/logger/logger.py b/qcodes/logger/logger.py
index bcd1abe7180..272b8c71550 100644
--- a/qcodes/logger/logger.py
+++ b/qcodes/logger/logger.py
@@ -67,15 +67,21 @@
 
 _opencensus_filter = logging.Filter(name="opencensus")
 _urllib3_connection_filter = logging.Filter(name="urllib3.connection")
+_azure_monitor_opentelemetry_exporter_filter = logging.Filter(
+    name="azure.monitor.opentelemetry.exporter"
+)
 
 
 def filter_out_telemetry_log_records(record: logging.LogRecord) -> bool:
     """
     here we filter any message that is likely to be thrown from
-    opencensus so it is not shown in the user console
+    opencensus/opentelemetry so it is not shown in the user console
     """
-    return (not _opencensus_filter.filter(record)
-            and not _urllib3_connection_filter.filter(record))
+    return (
+        not _opencensus_filter.filter(record)
+        and not _urllib3_connection_filter.filter(record)
+        and not _azure_monitor_opentelemetry_exporter_filter
+    )
 
 
 def get_formatter() -> logging.Formatter: