diff --git a/.chloggen/kevinnoel-be_fix-panic-on-invalid-trace-span-ids.yaml b/.chloggen/kevinnoel-be_fix-panic-on-invalid-trace-span-ids.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8112df0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/kevinnoel-be_fix-panic-on-invalid-trace-span-ids.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: bug_fix
+
+# The name of the component (e.g. pkg/quantile)
+component: pkg/otlp/logs
+
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Fix panics on invalid sized trace & span IDs
+
+# The PR related to this change
+issues: [340]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
diff --git a/pkg/otlp/logs/transform.go b/pkg/otlp/logs/transform.go
index d82405f8..ae0544e9 100644
--- a/pkg/otlp/logs/transform.go
+++ b/pkg/otlp/logs/transform.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ package logs
 import (
 	"encoding/binary"
 	"encoding/hex"
+	"errors"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -222,16 +223,28 @@ func extractHostNameAndServiceName(resourceAttrs pcommon.Map, logAttrs pcommon.M
 	return host, service
 }
 
-func decodeTraceID(traceID string) ([16]byte, error) {
-	var ret [16]byte
-	_, err := hex.Decode(ret[:], []byte(traceID))
-	return ret, err
+func decodeTraceID(traceIDStr string) (pcommon.TraceID, error) {
+	var id pcommon.TraceID
+	if hex.DecodedLen(len(traceIDStr)) != len(id) {
+		return pcommon.TraceID{}, errors.New("trace ids must be 32 hex characters")
+	}
+	_, err := hex.Decode(id[:], []byte(traceIDStr))
+	if err != nil {
+		return pcommon.TraceID{}, err
+	}
+	return id, nil
 }
 
-func decodeSpanID(spanID string) ([8]byte, error) {
-	var ret [8]byte
-	_, err := hex.Decode(ret[:], []byte(spanID))
-	return ret, err
+func decodeSpanID(spanIDStr string) (pcommon.SpanID, error) {
+	var id pcommon.SpanID
+	if hex.DecodedLen(len(spanIDStr)) != len(id) {
+		return pcommon.SpanID{}, errors.New("span ids must be 16 hex characters")
+	}
+	_, err := hex.Decode(id[:], []byte(spanIDStr))
+	if err != nil {
+		return pcommon.SpanID{}, err
+	}
+	return id, nil
 }
 
 // traceIDToUint64 converts 128bit traceId to 64 bit uint64
diff --git a/pkg/otlp/logs/transform_test.go b/pkg/otlp/logs/transform_test.go
index f28b5cf2..a609c898 100644
--- a/pkg/otlp/logs/transform_test.go
+++ b/pkg/otlp/logs/transform_test.go
@@ -284,6 +284,35 @@ func TestTranslator(t *testing.T) {
 				},
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			name: "trace from attributes size error",
+			args: args{
+				lr: func() plog.LogRecord {
+					l := plog.NewLogRecord()
+					l.Attributes().PutStr("app", "test")
+					l.Attributes().PutStr("spanid", "2023675201651514964")
+					l.Attributes().PutStr("traceid", "eb068afe5e53704f3b0dc3d3e1e397cb760549a7b58547db4f1dee845d9101f8db1ccf8fdd0976a9112f")
+					l.Attributes().PutStr(conventions.AttributeServiceName, "otlp_col")
+					l.SetSeverityNumber(5)
+					return l
+				}(),
+				res: func() pcommon.Resource {
+					r := pcommon.NewResource()
+					return r
+				}(),
+			},
+			want: datadogV2.HTTPLogItem{
+				Ddtags:  datadog.PtrString("otel_source:test"),
+				Message: *datadog.PtrString(""),
+				Service: datadog.PtrString("otlp_col"),
+				AdditionalProperties: map[string]string{
+					"app":              "test",
+					"status":           "debug",
+					otelSeverityNumber: "5",
+					"service.name":     "otlp_col",
+				},
+			},
+		},
 		{
 			// here SeverityText should take precedence for log status
 			name: "SeverityText",