diff --git a/carbon/app.go b/carbon/app.go
index 2495fb73e..1855b7c58 100644
--- a/carbon/app.go
+++ b/carbon/app.go
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ func (app *App) startPersister() {
 }
 
 // Start starts
-func (app *App) Start(version string) (err error) {
+func (app *App) Start() (err error) {
 	app.Lock()
 	defer app.Unlock()
 
@@ -580,6 +580,9 @@ func (app *App) Start(version string) (err error) {
 		if conf.Prometheus.Enabled {
 			carbonserver.InitPrometheus(app.PromRegisterer)
 		}
+		if conf.Tracing.Enabled {
+			log.Printf("Otel tracing is removed in current verion, ignoring tracing.enabled=true")
+		}
 
 		carbonserver.RegisterInternalInfoHandler("cache", core.GetInfo)
 		carbonserver.RegisterInternalInfoHandler("config", func() map[string]interface{} {
diff --git a/carbon/app_stop_test.go b/carbon/app_stop_test.go
index a4a5bfdf7..c5e510d48 100644
--- a/carbon/app_stop_test.go
+++ b/carbon/app_stop_test.go
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ func TestStartStop(t *testing.T) {
 			app := New(configFile)
 
 			assert.NoError(app.ParseConfig())
-			assert.NoError(app.Start("test-version"))
+			assert.NoError(app.Start())
 
 			app.Stop()
 		})
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func TestReloadAndCollectorDeadlock(t *testing.T) {
 		assert.NoError(t, app.ParseConfig())
 
 		app.Config.Common.MetricInterval = &Duration{time.Microsecond}
-		assert.NoError(t, app.Start("test-version"))
+		assert.NoError(t, app.Start())
 
 		reloadChan := make(chan struct{}, 1)
 		N := 1024
diff --git a/go-carbon.go b/go-carbon.go
index 3eefcffb0..e459c13fe 100644
--- a/go-carbon.go
+++ b/go-carbon.go
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ func main() {
 		app.PromRegisterer.MustRegister(prometheus.NewProcessCollector(prometheus.ProcessCollectorOpts{}))
 		http.Handle(cfg.Prometheus.Endpoint, promhttp.HandlerFor(app.PromRegistry, promhttp.HandlerOpts{}))
 	}
-	if err = app.Start(BuildVersion); err != nil {
+	if err = app.Start(); err != nil {
 		mainLogger.Fatal(err.Error())
 	} else {
 		mainLogger.Info("started")