diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 91fd714f8b9..dfa13e2de89 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@
 
 ### Tools
 
+* [ENHANCEMENT] trafficdump: Trafficdump can now parse OTEL requests. Entire request is dumped to output, there's no filtering of fields or matching of series done. #6108
+
 ## 2.10.0
 
 ### Grafana Mimir
diff --git a/tools/trafficdump/main.go b/tools/trafficdump/main.go
index dd9c69ccc6c..5a8ac699575 100644
--- a/tools/trafficdump/main.go
+++ b/tools/trafficdump/main.go
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ import (
 )
 
 func main() {
+	// Clean up all flags registered via init() methods of 3rd-party libraries.
+	flag.CommandLine = flag.NewFlagSet(os.Args[0], flag.ExitOnError)
+
 	parser := &parser{}
 
 	parser.RegisterFlags(flag.CommandLine)
diff --git a/tools/trafficdump/model.go b/tools/trafficdump/model.go
index c66bef222ad..fb2028c9a82 100644
--- a/tools/trafficdump/model.go
+++ b/tools/trafficdump/model.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/model/labels"
+	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/pmetric/pmetricotlp"
 
 	"github.com/grafana/mimir/pkg/mimirpb"
 )
@@ -42,7 +43,9 @@ type request struct {
 	Form    url.Values `json:"form,omitempty"`
 	RawBody string     `json:"raw_body,omitempty"`
 
-	PushRequest *pushRequest `json:"push,omitempty"`
+	PushRequest any `json:"push,omitempty"`
+
+	cleanup func()
 }
 
 type requestURL struct {
@@ -57,8 +60,11 @@ type pushRequest struct {
 	Metadata   []*mimirpb.MetricMetadata `json:"metadata,omitempty"`
 
 	Error string `json:"error,omitempty"`
+}
 
-	cleanup func()
+type otlpPushRequest struct {
+	pmetricotlp.ExportRequest
+	Error string `json:"error,omitempty"`
 }
 
 type timeseries struct {
diff --git a/tools/trafficdump/parser.go b/tools/trafficdump/parser.go
index 9010498ea06..3899a0b4cc4 100644
--- a/tools/trafficdump/parser.go
+++ b/tools/trafficdump/parser.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/grafana/regexp"
 	"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/model/labels"
 	promql_parser "github.com/prometheus/prometheus/promql/parser"
+	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/pmetric/pmetricotlp"
 
 	"github.com/grafana/mimir/pkg/mimirpb"
 	"github.com/grafana/mimir/pkg/util"
@@ -55,12 +56,12 @@ func (rp *parser) RegisterFlags(f *flag.FlagSet) {
 	f.StringVar(&rp.pathRegexpStr, "path", "", "Output only requests matching this URL path (regex).")
 	f.StringVar(&rp.ignorePathRegexpStr, "ignore-path", "", "If not empty, and URL path matches this regex, request is ignored.")
 	f.StringVar(&rp.tenantRegexpStr, "tenant", "", "Output only requests for this tenant (regex).")
-	f.StringVar(&rp.metricSelector, "select", "", "If set, only output write requests that include series matching this selector. Used only when -request.decode-remote-write is enabled.")
+	f.StringVar(&rp.metricSelector, "select", "", "If set, only output write requests that include series matching this selector. Used only when -request.decode-remote-write is enabled. (Only works for Prometheus requests)")
 
 	f.BoolVar(&rp.requestHeaders, "request.headers", false, "Include request headers in the output")
 	f.BoolVar(&rp.requestRawBody, "request.raw-body", false, "Include raw request body in the output")
-	f.BoolVar(&rp.decodePush, "request.decode-remote-write", false, "Decode remote-write requests (only for POST requests that contain /push in the path)")
-	f.BoolVar(&rp.includeSamples, "request.samples", false, "Include samples in the output. Used only when -request.decode-remote-write is enabled.")
+	f.BoolVar(&rp.decodePush, "request.decode-remote-write", false, "Decode Prometheus or OTEL metrics requests. Only for POST requests that contain /push (Prometheus) or /metrics (OTEL) in the path")
+	f.BoolVar(&rp.includeSamples, "request.samples", false, "Include samples in the output. Used only when -request.decode-remote-write is enabled. (Only works with Prometheus requests)")
 
 	f.BoolVar(&rp.responseHeaders, "response.headers", false, "Include HTTP headers in the response")
 	f.BoolVar(&rp.responseRawBody, "response.raw-body", false, "Include raw body in the response")
@@ -133,7 +134,16 @@ func (rp *parser) processHTTPRequest(req *http.Request, body []byte) *request {
 
 	if rp.decodePush && req.Method == "POST" && strings.Contains(req.URL.Path, "/push") {
 		var matched bool
-		r.PushRequest, matched = rp.decodePushRequest(req, body, rp.matchers)
+		r.PushRequest, r.cleanup, matched = rp.decodePushRequest(req, body, rp.matchers)
+		if !matched {
+			r.ignored = true
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Support POST to /otlp/v1/metrics
+	if rp.decodePush && req.Method == "POST" && strings.Contains(req.URL.Path, "/metrics") {
+		var matched bool
+		r.PushRequest, matched = rp.decodeOTLPRequest(req, body)
 		if !matched {
 			r.ignored = true
 		}
@@ -151,7 +161,7 @@ var bufferPool = sync.Pool{
 	New: func() interface{} { return &bufHolder{buf: make([]byte, 256*1024)} },
 }
 
-func (rp *parser) decodePushRequest(req *http.Request, body []byte, matchers []*labels.Matcher) (*pushRequest, bool) {
+func (rp *parser) decodePushRequest(req *http.Request, body []byte, matchers []*labels.Matcher) (*pushRequest, func(), bool) {
 	res := &pushRequest{Version: req.Header.Get("X-Prometheus-Remote-Write-Version")}
 
 	bufHolder := bufferPool.Get().(*bufHolder)
@@ -165,7 +175,7 @@ func (rp *parser) decodePushRequest(req *http.Request, body []byte, matchers []*
 	if err != nil {
 		cleanup()
 		res.Error = fmt.Errorf("failed to decode decodePush request: %s", err).Error()
-		return nil, true
+		return nil, nil, true
 	}
 
 	// If decoding allocated a bigger buffer, put that one back in the pool.
@@ -186,7 +196,7 @@ func (rp *parser) decodePushRequest(req *http.Request, body []byte, matchers []*
 
 		if !matched {
 			cleanup()
-			return nil, false
+			return nil, nil, false
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -208,8 +218,7 @@ func (rp *parser) decodePushRequest(req *http.Request, body []byte, matchers []*
 
 	res.Metadata = wr.Metadata
 
-	res.cleanup = cleanup
-	return res, true
+	return res, cleanup, true
 }
 
 func matches(lbls labels.Labels, matchers []*labels.Matcher) bool {
@@ -268,3 +277,66 @@ func (rp *parser) processHTTPResponse(resp *http.Response, body []byte) *respons
 
 	return &out
 }
+
+const (
+	pbContentType   = "application/x-protobuf"
+	jsonContentType = "application/json"
+)
+
+func (rp *parser) decodeOTLPRequest(req *http.Request, body []byte) (*otlpPushRequest, bool) {
+	res := &otlpPushRequest{}
+
+	var decoderFunc func(buf []byte) (pmetricotlp.ExportRequest, error)
+
+	contentType := req.Header.Get("Content-Type")
+	switch contentType {
+	case pbContentType:
+		decoderFunc = func(buf []byte) (pmetricotlp.ExportRequest, error) {
+			req := pmetricotlp.NewExportRequest()
+			return req, req.UnmarshalProto(buf)
+		}
+
+	case jsonContentType:
+		decoderFunc = func(buf []byte) (pmetricotlp.ExportRequest, error) {
+			req := pmetricotlp.NewExportRequest()
+			return req, req.UnmarshalJSON(buf)
+		}
+
+	default:
+		res.Error = fmt.Sprintf("unsupported content type: %s", contentType)
+		return nil, false
+	}
+
+	// Handle compression.
+	contentEncoding := req.Header.Get("Content-Encoding")
+	switch contentEncoding {
+	case "gzip":
+		gr, err := gzip.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(body))
+		if err != nil {
+			res.Error = fmt.Sprintf("failed to decode gzip request: %v", err)
+			return nil, true
+		}
+
+		body, err = io.ReadAll(gr)
+		if err != nil {
+			res.Error = fmt.Sprintf("failed to decode gzip request: %v", err)
+			return nil, true
+		}
+
+	case "":
+		// No compression.
+
+	default:
+		res.Error = fmt.Sprintf("unsupported compression for otel: %s", contentEncoding)
+		return nil, true
+	}
+
+	var err error
+	res.ExportRequest, err = decoderFunc(body)
+	if err != nil {
+		res.Error = fmt.Sprintf("failed to decode request: %v", err)
+		return nil, true
+	}
+
+	return res, true
+}
diff --git a/tools/trafficdump/processor.go b/tools/trafficdump/processor.go
index dbd75c6797b..a12953f213d 100644
--- a/tools/trafficdump/processor.go
+++ b/tools/trafficdump/processor.go
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ func (p *processor) run() {
 }
 
 func (p *processor) print(req *request, resp *response) {
-	if req != nil && req.PushRequest != nil && req.PushRequest.cleanup != nil {
-		defer req.PushRequest.cleanup()
+	if req != nil && req.cleanup != nil {
+		defer req.cleanup()
 	}
 
 	if req != nil && req.ignored {