diff --git a/receiver/githubreceiver/internal/scraper/githubscraper/github_scraper_test.go b/receiver/githubreceiver/internal/scraper/githubscraper/github_scraper_test.go
index 991cb2d30ed9..d712f5093fe5 100644
--- a/receiver/githubreceiver/internal/scraper/githubscraper/github_scraper_test.go
+++ b/receiver/githubreceiver/internal/scraper/githubscraper/github_scraper_test.go
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ func TestScrape(t *testing.T) {
 					contribs: [][]*github.Contributor{
 						{
 							{
-								ID: github.Int64(1),
+								ID: github.Ptr(int64(1)),
 							},
 						},
 					},
diff --git a/receiver/githubreceiver/internal/scraper/githubscraper/helpers_test.go b/receiver/githubreceiver/internal/scraper/githubscraper/helpers_test.go
index 38e646d94e94..e7341ef73066 100644
--- a/receiver/githubreceiver/internal/scraper/githubscraper/helpers_test.go
+++ b/receiver/githubreceiver/internal/scraper/githubscraper/helpers_test.go
@@ -685,10 +685,10 @@ func TestGetContributors(t *testing.T) {
 				contribResponse: contribResponse{
 					contribs: [][]*github.Contributor{{
 						{
-							ID: github.Int64(1),
+							ID: github.Ptr(int64(1)),
 						},
 						{
-							ID: github.Int64(2),
+							ID: github.Ptr(int64(2)),
 						},
 					}},
 					responseCode: http.StatusOK,