diff --git a/Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos/src/Telemetry/OpenTelemetry/Filters/DiagnosticsFilterHelper.cs b/Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos/src/Telemetry/OpenTelemetry/Filters/DiagnosticsFilterHelper.cs
index 05bd949671..029c3f4031 100644
--- a/Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos/src/Telemetry/OpenTelemetry/Filters/DiagnosticsFilterHelper.cs
+++ b/Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos/src/Telemetry/OpenTelemetry/Filters/DiagnosticsFilterHelper.cs
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ public static bool IsLatencyThresholdCrossed(
             OperationType operationType,
             OpenTelemetryAttributes response)
         {
+            config ??= new CosmosThresholdOptions();
             TimeSpan latencyThreshold = operationType == OperationType.Query ? config.NonPointOperationLatencyThreshold : config.PointOperationLatencyThreshold;
             return response.Diagnostics.GetClientElapsedTime() > latencyThreshold;
         }
diff --git a/Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos/tests/Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos.EmulatorTests/DistributedTracingOTelTests.cs b/Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos/tests/Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos.EmulatorTests/DistributedTracingOTelTests.cs
index 299055c611..6ed14ff7ca 100644
--- a/Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos/tests/Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos.EmulatorTests/DistributedTracingOTelTests.cs
+++ b/Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos/tests/Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos.EmulatorTests/DistributedTracingOTelTests.cs
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ await base.TestInit(validateSinglePartitionKeyRangeCacheCall: false,
                                     customizeClientBuilder: (builder) => builder
                                                                             .WithClientTelemetryOptions(new CosmosClientTelemetryOptions()
                                                                              {
-                                                                                DisableDistributedTracing = enableDistributingTracing
+                                                                                DisableDistributedTracing = !enableDistributingTracing
                                                                              })
                                                                             .WithConnectionModeGateway());
             }
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ await base.TestInit(validateSinglePartitionKeyRangeCacheCall: false,
                                     customizeClientBuilder: (builder) => builder
                                                                             .WithClientTelemetryOptions(new CosmosClientTelemetryOptions()
                                                                              {
-                                                                                DisableDistributedTracing = enableDistributingTracing
+                                                                                DisableDistributedTracing = !enableDistributingTracing
                                                                              }));
             }