diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 87a6fd6d38..2400f71ec9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- Enabled the flake8-debugger rules for ruff linter. These rules do not allow for the use of debugger calls and imports in production code.
+  ([#5056](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/5056))
 - Enabled the flake8-tidy-import plugins rules for the ruff linter. These rules throw warnings for relative imports in the modules. 
   ([#5019](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/5019))
 - `opentelemetry-sdk`: Fix `AttributeError` in `ExplicitBucketHistogramAggregation` when applied to non-Histogram instruments without explicit boundaries
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 294a7c4b09..ff14d8aad5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ select = [
   "UP032", # f-string
   "UP034", # extraneous-parentheses
   "UP037", # quoted-annotation
+  "T10",  # flake8-debugger
 ]
 
 ignore = [