diff --git a/.github/renovate.json5 b/.github/renovate.json5
index 27ea3947f..226097cd0 100644
--- a/.github/renovate.json5
+++ b/.github/renovate.json5
@@ -18,6 +18,14 @@
       // of that release instead of the unstable version for a future release
       "ignoreUnstable": false
     },
+    {
+      groupName: 'opentelemetry instrumentation packages',
+      matchPackageNames: [
+        'io.opentelemetry.instrumentation:**',
+        'io.opentelemetry.javaagent:**',
+        'open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation' // for logging-k8s-stdout-otlp-json/Dockerfile
+      ],
+    },
     {
       // intentionally using Java 11 in some examples
       // not using matchUpdateTypes "major", because renovate wants to bump "11-jre" to "11.0.19_7-jre"