diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f2bcbfd131..69341f3bbb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ release.
   ([#972](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo/pull/972))
 * Update frontendproxy's env for minimal
   ([#983](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo/pull/983))
+* [LoadGenerator & RecommendatationService] update dependencies
+  ([#988](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo/pull/988))
 * [FraudDetectionService] Updated Kotlin version and OTel dependencies
   ([#987](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo/pull/987))
 
diff --git a/docker-compose.minimal.yml b/docker-compose.minimal.yml
index cc9a04e4c9..4b143e9508 100644
--- a/docker-compose.minimal.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.minimal.yml
@@ -289,7 +289,8 @@ services:
       - LOCUST_HOST
       - LOCUST_HEADLESS
       - LOCUST_AUTOSTART
-      - OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT=http://${OTEL_COLLECTOR_HOST}:4318/v1/traces
+      - OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT
+      - OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_TEMPORALITY_PREFERENCE
       - OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
       - OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=loadgenerator
       - PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index a5cfee0c9e..4c7468c3eb 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -379,7 +379,8 @@ services:
       - LOCUST_HOST
       - LOCUST_HEADLESS
       - LOCUST_AUTOSTART
-      - OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT=http://${OTEL_COLLECTOR_HOST}:4318/v1/traces
+      - OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT
+      - OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_TEMPORALITY_PREFERENCE
       - OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
       - OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=loadgenerator
       - PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python
diff --git a/src/loadgenerator/locustfile.py b/src/loadgenerator/locustfile.py
index 20264bd788..ea40f0614d 100644
--- a/src/loadgenerator/locustfile.py
+++ b/src/loadgenerator/locustfile.py
@@ -10,18 +10,29 @@
 from locust import HttpUser, task, between
 
 from opentelemetry import context, baggage, trace
+from opentelemetry.metrics import set_meter_provider
+from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics import MeterProvider
+from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.export import MetricExporter, PeriodicExportingMetricReader
 from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
 from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
-from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
+from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.metric_exporter import OTLPMetricExporter
+from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
+from opentelemetry.instrumentation.jinja2 import Jinja2Instrumentor
 from opentelemetry.instrumentation.requests import RequestsInstrumentor
+from opentelemetry.instrumentation.system_metrics import SystemMetricsInstrumentor
 from opentelemetry.instrumentation.urllib3 import URLLib3Instrumentor
 
+exporter = OTLPMetricExporter(insecure=True)
+set_meter_provider(MeterProvider([PeriodicExportingMetricReader(exporter)]))
+
 tracer_provider = TracerProvider()
 trace.set_tracer_provider(tracer_provider)
 tracer_provider.add_span_processor(BatchSpanProcessor(OTLPSpanExporter()))
 
 # Instrumenting manually to avoid error with locust gevent monkey
+Jinja2Instrumentor().instrument()
 RequestsInstrumentor().instrument()
+SystemMetricsInstrumentor().instrument()
 URLLib3Instrumentor().instrument()
 
 categories = [
diff --git a/src/loadgenerator/requirements.txt b/src/loadgenerator/requirements.txt
index 5009db4ef5..4d2a3ced42 100644
--- a/src/loadgenerator/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/loadgenerator/requirements.txt
@@ -7,35 +7,37 @@ configargparse==1.5.3
 deprecated==1.2.13
 flask==2.3.2
 flask-basicauth==0.2.0
-flask-cors==3.0.10
-gevent==22.10.2
+flask-cors==4.0.0
+gevent==23.7.0
 geventhttpclient==2.0.9
-googleapis-common-protos==1.59.0
+googleapis-common-protos==1.59.1
 greenlet==2.0.2
 idna==3.4
 itsdangerous==2.1.2
 jinja2==3.1.2
 locust==2.15.1
-markupsafe==2.1.2
+markupsafe==2.1.3
 msgpack==1.0.5
-opentelemetry-api==1.17.0
-opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http==1.17.0
-opentelemetry-instrumentation==0.38b0
-opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests==0.38b0
-opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib3==0.38b0
-opentelemetry-proto==1.17.0
-opentelemetry-sdk==1.17.0
-opentelemetry-semantic-conventions==0.38b0
-opentelemetry-util-http==0.38b0
-protobuf==4.22.3
+opentelemetry-api==1.19.0
+opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc==1.19.0
+opentelemetry-instrumentation==0.40b0
+opentelemetry-instrumentation-jinja2==0.40b0
+opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests==0.40b0
+opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics==0.40b0
+opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib3==0.40b0
+opentelemetry-proto==1.19.0
+opentelemetry-sdk==1.19.0
+opentelemetry-semantic-conventions==0.40b0
+opentelemetry-util-http==0.40b0
+protobuf==4.23.4
 psutil==5.9.5
-pyzmq==25.0.2
+pyzmq==25.1.0
 requests==2.31.0
 roundrobin==0.0.4
 six==1.16.0
-typing-extensions==4.5.0
-urllib3==1.26.15
-werkzeug==2.3.3
+typing-extensions==4.7.1
+urllib3==2.0.4
+werkzeug==2.3.6
 wrapt==1.15.0
-zope-event==4.6
+zope-event==5.0
 zope-interface==6.0
diff --git a/src/recommendationservice/Dockerfile b/src/recommendationservice/Dockerfile
index 99d2d5e565..d4dc275269 100644
--- a/src/recommendationservice/Dockerfile
+++ b/src/recommendationservice/Dockerfile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
 
-FROM python:3.10-slim-bullseye as base
+FROM python:3.11-slim-bullseye as base
 
 #
 # Fetch requirements
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ FROM base as grpc-builder
 WORKDIR /usr/src/app/
 COPY ./pb/ ./proto/
 
-RUN python -m pip install grpcio-tools==1.48.2
+RUN python -m pip install grpcio-tools==1.56.2
 RUN python -m grpc_tools.protoc -I=./proto/ --python_out=./ --grpc_python_out=./ ./proto/demo.proto
 
 #
diff --git a/src/recommendationservice/logger.py b/src/recommendationservice/logger.py
index f22ed32172..0569665539 100644
--- a/src/recommendationservice/logger.py
+++ b/src/recommendationservice/logger.py
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
+
 # Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-#!/usr/bin/python
-#
 
 import logging
 import sys
diff --git a/src/recommendationservice/metrics.py b/src/recommendationservice/metrics.py
index 656433929b..51b79968ec 100644
--- a/src/recommendationservice/metrics.py
+++ b/src/recommendationservice/metrics.py
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python
+
 # Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-#!/usr/bin/python
-#
-
 
 def init_metrics(meter):
 
diff --git a/src/recommendationservice/recommendation_server.py b/src/recommendationservice/recommendation_server.py
index 88f03f368c..d8b3a0f036 100644
--- a/src/recommendationservice/recommendation_server.py
+++ b/src/recommendationservice/recommendation_server.py
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
 # Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-#!/usr/bin/python
-#
+
 
 # Python
 import os
diff --git a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
index 85d0901cde..ecdc4621e8 100644
--- a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-grpcio-health-checking==1.43.0
-grpcio==1.51.3
-opentelemetry-distro==0.36b0
-opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc==1.15.0
-python-dotenv==0.21.0
-python-json-logger==2.0.4
-psutil==5.9.2 # Importing this will also import opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics when running opentelemetry-bootstrap
+grpcio-health-checking==1.56.2
+grpcio==1.56.2
+opentelemetry-distro==0.40b0
+opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc==1.19.0
+python-dotenv==1.0.0
+python-json-logger==2.0.7
+psutil==5.9.5 # Importing this will also import opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics when running opentelemetry-bootstrap