diff --git a/tooling-observability/src/main/java/org/jboss/eap/qe/observability/containers/OpenTelemetryCollectorContainer.java b/tooling-observability/src/main/java/org/jboss/eap/qe/observability/containers/OpenTelemetryCollectorContainer.java
index fbc67d04..12248fb5 100644
--- a/tooling-observability/src/main/java/org/jboss/eap/qe/observability/containers/OpenTelemetryCollectorContainer.java
+++ b/tooling-observability/src/main/java/org/jboss/eap/qe/observability/containers/OpenTelemetryCollectorContainer.java
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ public void start() {
         try {
             otelCollectorContainer.start();
         } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException("Starting the OTel container failed: " + e);
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Starting the OTel container failed: " + e, e);
         }
         otlpGrpcEndpoint = "http://localhost:" + DOCKER_HOST_OTLP_GRPC_PORT;
         otlpHttpEndpoint = "http://localhost:" + DOCKER_HOST_OTLP_HTTP_PORT;