diff --git a/.chloggen/2449-fix-ingress.yaml b/.chloggen/2449-fix-ingress.yaml
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..423f4bb6f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/2449-fix-ingress.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: bug_fix
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. operator, target allocator, github action)
+component: operator
+
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Fix the path and annotations needed for the Ingress to expose the OTLP HTTP receiver.
+
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [2449]
+
+# (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/internal/manifests/collector/ingress.go b/internal/manifests/collector/ingress.go
index 4bb692ff90..86517e4410 100644
--- a/internal/manifests/collector/ingress.go
+++ b/internal/manifests/collector/ingress.go
@@ -53,11 +53,20 @@ func Ingress(params manifests.Params) (*networkingv1.Ingress, error) {
 		rules = createSubdomainIngressRules(params.OtelCol.Name, params.OtelCol.Spec.Ingress.Hostname, ports)
 	}
 
+	ingressAnnotations := params.OtelCol.Spec.Ingress.Annotations
+	if ingressAnnotations == nil {
+		ingressAnnotations = make(map[string]string)
+	}
+
+	if _, ok := ingressAnnotations["nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target"]; !ok {
+		ingressAnnotations["nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target"] = "/$2"
+	}
+
 	return &networkingv1.Ingress{
 		ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
 			Name:        naming.Ingress(params.OtelCol.Name),
 			Namespace:   params.OtelCol.Namespace,
-			Annotations: params.OtelCol.Spec.Ingress.Annotations,
+			Annotations: ingressAnnotations,
 			Labels: map[string]string{
 				"app.kubernetes.io/name":       naming.Ingress(params.OtelCol.Name),
 				"app.kubernetes.io/instance":   fmt.Sprintf("%s.%s", params.OtelCol.Namespace, params.OtelCol.Name),
@@ -78,7 +87,7 @@ func createPathIngressRules(otelcol string, hostname string, ports []corev1.Serv
 	for i, port := range ports {
 		portName := naming.PortName(port.Name, port.Port)
 		paths[i] = networkingv1.HTTPIngressPath{
-			Path:     "/" + port.Name,
+			Path:     "/" + port.Name + "(/|$)(.*)",
 			PathType: &pathType,
 			Backend: networkingv1.IngressBackend{
 				Service: &networkingv1.IngressServiceBackend{