diff --git a/bottlecap/Cargo.lock b/bottlecap/Cargo.lock
index 340e0afb7..bd91694b3 100644
--- a/bottlecap/Cargo.lock
+++ b/bottlecap/Cargo.lock
@@ -568,6 +568,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tikv-jemallocator",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-util",
+ "tower-http",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-core",
  "tracing-subscriber",
@@ -3720,6 +3721,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-util",
  "http 1.3.1",
  "http-body 1.0.1",
+ "http-body-util",
  "iri-string",
  "pin-project-lite",
  "tower 0.5.2",
diff --git a/bottlecap/Cargo.toml b/bottlecap/Cargo.toml
index 9a162d5f7..bc295522b 100644
--- a/bottlecap/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bottlecap/Cargo.toml
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = { version = "0.30", features = ["semconv_ex
 rustls-native-certs = { version = "0.8.1", optional = true }
 axum = { version = "0.8.4", default-features = false, features = ["default"] }
 ustr = { version = "1.0.0", default-features = false }
+tower-http = { version = "0.6.6", default-features = false, features = ["limit"] }
 # If you are adding or updating a datadog-owned code dependency, please ensure
 # that it has a clippy.toml rule for disallowing the reqwest::Client::builder
 # method in favor of our
diff --git a/bottlecap/src/traces/trace_agent.rs b/bottlecap/src/traces/trace_agent.rs
index 03500894a..27b0132fd 100644
--- a/bottlecap/src/traces/trace_agent.rs
+++ b/bottlecap/src/traces/trace_agent.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 use axum::{
     Router,
-    extract::{Request, State},
+    extract::{DefaultBodyLimit, Request, State},
     http::StatusCode,
     response::{IntoResponse, Response},
     routing::{any, post},
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ use tokio::sync::{
     mpsc::{self, Receiver, Sender},
 };
 use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
+use tower_http::limit::RequestBodyLimitLayer;
 use tracing::{debug, error};
 
 use crate::traces::trace_processor::SendingTraceProcessor;
@@ -72,7 +73,9 @@ const INSTRUMENTATION_INTAKE_PATH: &str = "/api/v2/apmtelemetry";
 
 const TRACER_PAYLOAD_CHANNEL_BUFFER_SIZE: usize = 10;
 const STATS_PAYLOAD_CHANNEL_BUFFER_SIZE: usize = 10;
-pub const MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH: usize = 10 * 1024 * 1024;
+pub const TRACE_REQUEST_BODY_LIMIT: usize = 50 * 1024 * 1024;
+pub const DEFAULT_REQUEST_BODY_LIMIT: usize = 2 * 1024 * 1024;
+pub const MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH: usize = 50 * 1024 * 1024;
 const LAMBDA_LOAD_SPAN: &str = "aws.lambda.load";
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
@@ -231,10 +234,12 @@ impl TraceAgent {
                 V5_TRACE_ENDPOINT_PATH,
                 post(Self::v05_traces).put(Self::v05_traces),
             )
+            .layer(RequestBodyLimitLayer::new(TRACE_REQUEST_BODY_LIMIT))
             .with_state(trace_state);
 
         let stats_router = Router::new()
             .route(STATS_ENDPOINT_PATH, post(Self::stats).put(Self::stats))
+            .layer(RequestBodyLimitLayer::new(DEFAULT_REQUEST_BODY_LIMIT))
             .with_state(stats_state);
 
         let proxy_router = Router::new()
@@ -254,6 +259,7 @@ impl TraceAgent {
                 INSTRUMENTATION_ENDPOINT_PATH,
                 post(Self::instrumentation_proxy),
             )
+            .layer(RequestBodyLimitLayer::new(DEFAULT_REQUEST_BODY_LIMIT))
             .with_state(proxy_state);
 
         let info_router = Router::new().route(INFO_ENDPOINT_PATH, any(Self::info));
@@ -264,6 +270,8 @@ impl TraceAgent {
             .merge(proxy_router)
             .merge(info_router)
             .fallback(handler_not_found)
+            // Disable the default body limit so we can use our own limit
+            .layer(DefaultBodyLimit::disable())
     }
 
     async fn graceful_shutdown(shutdown_token: CancellationToken) {