diff --git a/docs/usage/security/abstract-authentication-middleware.rst b/docs/usage/security/abstract-authentication-middleware.rst
index 9db3ac6c77..615c698346 100644
--- a/docs/usage/security/abstract-authentication-middleware.rst
+++ b/docs/usage/security/abstract-authentication-middleware.rst
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ example here let us say it is a `SQLAlchemy <https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/>`_ mod
         # ... other fields follow, but we only require id for this example
 
 We will also need some utility methods to encode and decode tokens. To this end we will use
-the `python-jose <https://github.com/mpdavis/python-jose>`_ library. We will also create a Pydantic model representing a
+the `pyjwt <https://pyjwt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_ library. We will also create a Pydantic model representing a
 JWT Token:
 
 .. dropdown:: Click to see the JWT utility methods and Token model
diff --git a/docs/usage/security/jwt.rst b/docs/usage/security/jwt.rst
index fcf1abd916..a25f45be06 100644
--- a/docs/usage/security/jwt.rst
+++ b/docs/usage/security/jwt.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ JWT Security Backends
 =====================
 
 Litestar offers optional JWT based security backends. To use these make sure to install the
-`python-jose <https://github.com/mpdavis/python-jose>`_ and `cryptography <https://github.com/pyca/cryptography>`_
+`pyjwt <https://pyjwt.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_ and `cryptography <https://github.com/pyca/cryptography>`_
 packages, or simply install Litestar with the ``jwt``
 `extra <https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/dependency-specifiers/#extras>`_:
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index aa4e9948ec..1f5b7ea2c9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -170,7 +170,6 @@ linting = [
   "pyright==1.1.344",
   "asyncpg-stubs",
   "types-beautifulsoup4",
-  "types-python-jose",
   "types-pyyaml",
   "types-redis",
   "types-psutil",
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_contrib/test_opentelemetry.py b/tests/unit/test_contrib/test_opentelemetry.py
index f34907ef7d..d358a6394e 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_contrib/test_opentelemetry.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_contrib/test_opentelemetry.py
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ def handler() -> dict:
         }
 
         metric_data = reader.get_metrics_data()
+        assert metric_data
         assert metric_data.resource_metrics
 
         resource_metrics = metric_data.resource_metrics[0]