diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
index 2cca15f1d14..bf9ff03b876 100644
--- a/.golangci.yml
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -139,13 +139,12 @@ linters-settings:
         files:
           - "**_test.go"
 
-      # TODO: enable after import is not used anywhere
-      # disallow-otel-contrib-translator:
-      #   deny:
-      #     - pkg: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pkg/translator/jaeger
-      #       desc: "Use jptrace package instead of opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pkg/translator/jaeger"
-      #   files:
-      #     - "!**/jptrace/**"
+      disallow-otel-contrib-translator:
+        deny:
+          - pkg: github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pkg/translator/jaeger
+            desc: "Use jptrace package instead of opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pkg/translator/jaeger"
+        files:
+          - "!**/jptrace/**"
 
   goimports:
     local-prefixes: github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger
diff --git a/cmd/jaeger/internal/integration/span_writer.go b/cmd/jaeger/internal/integration/span_writer.go
index da722b1681f..2f718fb5022 100644
--- a/cmd/jaeger/internal/integration/span_writer.go
+++ b/cmd/jaeger/internal/integration/span_writer.go
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"time"
 
-	jaeger2otlp "github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pkg/translator/jaeger"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/component/componenttest"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/configtls"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter"
@@ -17,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/otlpexporter"
 	"go.uber.org/zap"
 
+	"github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/internal/jptrace"
 	"github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/model"
 	"github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/storage/spanstore"
 )
@@ -68,15 +68,12 @@ func (w *spanWriter) Close() error {
 }
 
 func (w *spanWriter) WriteSpan(ctx context.Context, span *model.Span) error {
-	td, err := jaeger2otlp.ProtoToTraces([]*model.Batch{
+	td := jptrace.ProtoToTraces([]*model.Batch{
 		{
 			Spans:   []*model.Span{span},
 			Process: span.Process,
 		},
 	})
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
 
 	return w.exporter.ConsumeTraces(ctx, td)
 }
diff --git a/cmd/query/app/apiv3/otlp_translator.go b/cmd/query/app/apiv3/otlp_translator.go
index 1a39ca79845..e9767720903 100644
--- a/cmd/query/app/apiv3/otlp_translator.go
+++ b/cmd/query/app/apiv3/otlp_translator.go
@@ -4,15 +4,14 @@
 package apiv3
 
 import (
-	model2otel "github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pkg/translator/jaeger"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/ptrace"
 
+	"github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/internal/jptrace"
 	"github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/model"
 )
 
 func modelToOTLP(spans []*model.Span) ptrace.Traces {
 	batch := &model.Batch{Spans: spans}
-	// there is never an error returned from ProtoToTraces
-	tr, _ := model2otel.ProtoToTraces([]*model.Batch{batch})
+	tr := jptrace.ProtoToTraces([]*model.Batch{batch})
 	return tr
 }
diff --git a/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/clockskew.go b/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/clockskew.go
index 70e00fd1238..c3ea335aa2f 100644
--- a/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/clockskew.go
+++ b/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/clockskew.go
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ func (a *clockSkewAdjuster) buildNodesMap() {
 			for k := 0; k < spans.Len(); k++ {
 				span := spans.At(k)
 				if _, exists := a.spans[span.SpanID()]; exists {
-					jptrace.AddWarning(span, warningDuplicateSpanID)
+					jptrace.AddWarnings(span, warningDuplicateSpanID)
 				} else {
 					a.spans[span.SpanID()] = &node{
 						span:    span,
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ func (a *clockSkewAdjuster) buildSubGraphs() {
 			p.children = append(p.children, n)
 		} else {
 			warning := fmt.Sprintf(warningMissingParentSpanID, n.span.ParentSpanID())
-			jptrace.AddWarning(n.span, warning)
+			jptrace.AddWarnings(n.span, warning)
 			// treat spans with invalid parent ID as root spans
 			a.roots[n.span.SpanID()] = n
 		}
@@ -185,14 +185,14 @@ func (a *clockSkewAdjuster) adjustTimestamps(n *node, skew clockSkew) {
 	}
 	if absDuration(skew.delta) > a.maxDelta {
 		if a.maxDelta == 0 {
-			jptrace.AddWarning(n.span, fmt.Sprintf(warningSkewAdjustDisabled, skew.delta))
+			jptrace.AddWarnings(n.span, fmt.Sprintf(warningSkewAdjustDisabled, skew.delta))
 			return
 		}
-		jptrace.AddWarning(n.span, fmt.Sprintf(warningMaxDeltaExceeded, a.maxDelta, skew.delta))
+		jptrace.AddWarnings(n.span, fmt.Sprintf(warningMaxDeltaExceeded, a.maxDelta, skew.delta))
 		return
 	}
 	n.span.SetStartTimestamp(pcommon.NewTimestampFromTime(n.span.StartTimestamp().AsTime().Add(skew.delta)))
-	jptrace.AddWarning(n.span, fmt.Sprintf("This span's timestamps were adjusted by %v", skew.delta))
+	jptrace.AddWarnings(n.span, fmt.Sprintf("This span's timestamps were adjusted by %v", skew.delta))
 	for i := 0; i < n.span.Events().Len(); i++ {
 		event := n.span.Events().At(i)
 		event.SetTimestamp(pcommon.NewTimestampFromTime(event.Timestamp().AsTime().Add(skew.delta)))
diff --git a/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/hash.go b/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/hash.go
index 55d6347ed9b..458258c7c3c 100644
--- a/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/hash.go
+++ b/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/hash.go
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ func (s *SpanHashDeduper) Adjust(traces ptrace.Traces) {
 					hashTrace,
 				)
 				if err != nil {
-					jptrace.AddWarning(span, fmt.Sprintf("failed to compute hash code: %v", err))
+					jptrace.AddWarnings(span, fmt.Sprintf("failed to compute hash code: %v", err))
 					span.CopyTo(dedupedSpans.AppendEmpty())
 					continue
 				}
diff --git a/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/libraryattributes.go b/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/libraryattributes.go
index d2d0bf64dfd..418a1206c29 100644
--- a/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/libraryattributes.go
+++ b/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/libraryattributes.go
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ func (ResourceAttributesAdjuster) moveAttributes(span ptrace.Span, resource pcom
 	for k, v := range replace {
 		existing, ok := resource.Attributes().Get(k)
 		if ok && existing.AsRaw() != v.AsRaw() {
-			jptrace.AddWarning(span, "conflicting values between Span and Resource for attribute "+k)
+			jptrace.AddWarnings(span, "conflicting values between Span and Resource for attribute "+k)
 			continue
 		}
 		v.CopyTo(resource.Attributes().PutEmpty(k))
diff --git a/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/spaniduniquifier.go b/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/spaniduniquifier.go
index 81720896e18..687fea06162 100644
--- a/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/spaniduniquifier.go
+++ b/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/spaniduniquifier.go
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ func (d *spanIDDeduper) uniquifyServerSpanIDs(traces ptrace.Traces) {
 				if span.Kind() == ptrace.SpanKindServer && d.isSharedWithClientSpan(span.SpanID()) {
 					newID, err := d.makeUniqueSpanID()
 					if err != nil {
-						jptrace.AddWarning(span, err.Error())
+						jptrace.AddWarnings(span, err.Error())
 						continue
 					}
 					oldToNewSpanIDs[span.SpanID()] = newID
diff --git a/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/spanlinks.go b/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/spanlinks.go
index a075be452b8..3fe3cb7ec3a 100644
--- a/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/spanlinks.go
+++ b/cmd/query/app/querysvc/adjuster/spanlinks.go
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ func (la LinksAdjuster) adjust(span ptrace.Span) {
 			newLink := validLinks.AppendEmpty()
 			link.CopyTo(newLink)
 		} else {
-			jptrace.AddWarning(span, invalidSpanLinkWarning)
+			jptrace.AddWarnings(span, invalidSpanLinkWarning)
 		}
 	}
 	validLinks.CopyTo(span.Links())
diff --git a/internal/jptrace/translator.go b/internal/jptrace/translator.go
index 7480b2b5075..82524696665 100644
--- a/internal/jptrace/translator.go
+++ b/internal/jptrace/translator.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ package jptrace
 
 import (
 	jaegerTranslator "github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pkg/translator/jaeger"
+	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/pcommon"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/ptrace"
 
 	"github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/model"
@@ -15,10 +16,19 @@ import (
 func ProtoFromTraces(traces ptrace.Traces) []*model.Batch {
 	batches := jaegerTranslator.ProtoFromTraces(traces)
 	spanMap := createSpanMapFromBatches(batches)
-	transferWarnings(traces, spanMap)
+	transferWarningsToModelSpans(traces, spanMap)
 	return batches
 }
 
+// ProtoToTraces converts Jaeger model batches ([]*model.Batch)
+// to OpenTelemetry traces (ptrace.Traces).
+func ProtoToTraces(batches []*model.Batch) ptrace.Traces {
+	traces, _ := jaegerTranslator.ProtoToTraces(batches) // never returns an error
+	spanMap := createSpanMapFromTraces(traces)
+	transferWarningsToOTLPSpans(batches, spanMap)
+	return traces
+}
+
 func createSpanMapFromBatches(batches []*model.Batch) map[model.SpanID]*model.Span {
 	spanMap := make(map[model.SpanID]*model.Span)
 	for _, batch := range batches {
@@ -29,7 +39,23 @@ func createSpanMapFromBatches(batches []*model.Batch) map[model.SpanID]*model.Sp
 	return spanMap
 }
 
-func transferWarnings(traces ptrace.Traces, spanMap map[model.SpanID]*model.Span) {
+func createSpanMapFromTraces(traces ptrace.Traces) map[pcommon.SpanID]ptrace.Span {
+	spanMap := make(map[pcommon.SpanID]ptrace.Span)
+	resources := traces.ResourceSpans()
+	for i := 0; i < resources.Len(); i++ {
+		scopes := resources.At(i).ScopeSpans()
+		for j := 0; j < scopes.Len(); j++ {
+			spans := scopes.At(j).Spans()
+			for k := 0; k < spans.Len(); k++ {
+				span := spans.At(k)
+				spanMap[span.SpanID()] = span
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return spanMap
+}
+
+func transferWarningsToModelSpans(traces ptrace.Traces, spanMap map[model.SpanID]*model.Span) {
 	resources := traces.ResourceSpans()
 	for i := 0; i < resources.Len(); i++ {
 		scopes := resources.At(i).ScopeSpans()
@@ -38,10 +64,27 @@ func transferWarnings(traces ptrace.Traces, spanMap map[model.SpanID]*model.Span
 			for k := 0; k < spans.Len(); k++ {
 				otelSpan := spans.At(k)
 				warnings := GetWarnings(otelSpan)
-				span := spanMap[model.SpanIDFromOTEL(otelSpan.SpanID())]
-				span.Warnings = append(span.Warnings, warnings...)
-				// filter out the warning tag
-				span.Tags = filterTags(span.Tags, warningsAttribute)
+				if len(warnings) == 0 {
+					continue
+				}
+				if span, ok := spanMap[model.SpanIDFromOTEL(otelSpan.SpanID())]; ok {
+					span.Warnings = append(span.Warnings, warnings...)
+					// filter out the warning tag
+					span.Tags = filterTags(span.Tags, warningsAttribute)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func transferWarningsToOTLPSpans(batches []*model.Batch, spanMap map[pcommon.SpanID]ptrace.Span) {
+	for _, batch := range batches {
+		for _, span := range batch.Spans {
+			if len(span.Warnings) == 0 {
+				continue
+			}
+			if otelSpan, ok := spanMap[span.SpanID.ToOTELSpanID()]; ok {
+				AddWarnings(otelSpan, span.Warnings...)
 			}
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/internal/jptrace/translator_test.go b/internal/jptrace/translator_test.go
index 5ff3129a00f..9e021a35abb 100644
--- a/internal/jptrace/translator_test.go
+++ b/internal/jptrace/translator_test.go
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ func TestProtoFromTraces_AddsWarnings(t *testing.T) {
 	span1 := ss1.Spans().AppendEmpty()
 	span1.SetName("test-span-1")
 	span1.SetSpanID(pcommon.SpanID([8]byte{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}))
-	AddWarning(span1, "test-warning-1")
-	AddWarning(span1, "test-warning-2")
+	AddWarnings(span1, "test-warning-1")
+	AddWarnings(span1, "test-warning-2")
 	span1.Attributes().PutStr("key", "value")
 
 	ss2 := rs1.ScopeSpans().AppendEmpty()
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ func TestProtoFromTraces_AddsWarnings(t *testing.T) {
 	span3 := ss3.Spans().AppendEmpty()
 	span3.SetName("test-span-3")
 	span3.SetSpanID(pcommon.SpanID([8]byte{17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24}))
-	AddWarning(span3, "test-warning-3")
+	AddWarnings(span3, "test-warning-3")
 
 	batches := ProtoFromTraces(traces)
 
@@ -53,3 +53,63 @@ func TestProtoFromTraces_AddsWarnings(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, []string{"test-warning-3"}, batches[1].Spans[0].Warnings)
 	assert.Empty(t, batches[1].Spans[0].Tags)
 }
+
+func TestProtoToTraces_AddsWarnings(t *testing.T) {
+	batch1 := &model.Batch{
+		Process: &model.Process{
+			ServiceName: "batch-1",
+		},
+		Spans: []*model.Span{
+			{
+				OperationName: "test-span-1",
+				SpanID:        model.NewSpanID(1),
+				Warnings:      []string{"test-warning-1", "test-warning-2"},
+			},
+			{
+				OperationName: "test-span-2",
+				SpanID:        model.NewSpanID(2),
+			},
+		},
+	}
+	batch2 := &model.Batch{
+		Process: &model.Process{
+			ServiceName: "batch-2",
+		},
+		Spans: []*model.Span{
+			{
+				OperationName: "test-span-3",
+				SpanID:        model.NewSpanID(3),
+				Warnings:      []string{"test-warning-3"},
+			},
+		},
+	}
+	batches := []*model.Batch{batch1, batch2}
+	traces := ProtoToTraces(batches)
+
+	assert.Equal(t, 2, traces.ResourceSpans().Len())
+
+	rs1 := traces.ResourceSpans().At(0)
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, rs1.ScopeSpans().Len())
+	ss1 := rs1.ScopeSpans().At(0)
+	assert.Equal(t, 2, ss1.Spans().Len())
+
+	span1 := ss1.Spans().At(0)
+	assert.Equal(t, "test-span-1", span1.Name())
+	assert.Equal(t, pcommon.SpanID([8]byte{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1}), span1.SpanID())
+	assert.Equal(t, []string{"test-warning-1", "test-warning-2"}, GetWarnings(span1))
+
+	span2 := ss1.Spans().At(1)
+	assert.Equal(t, "test-span-2", span2.Name())
+	assert.Equal(t, pcommon.SpanID([8]byte{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2}), span2.SpanID())
+	assert.Empty(t, GetWarnings(span2))
+
+	rs2 := traces.ResourceSpans().At(1)
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, rs2.ScopeSpans().Len())
+	ss3 := rs2.ScopeSpans().At(0)
+	assert.Equal(t, 1, ss3.Spans().Len())
+
+	span3 := ss3.Spans().At(0)
+	assert.Equal(t, "test-span-3", span3.Name())
+	assert.Equal(t, pcommon.SpanID([8]byte{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3}), span3.SpanID())
+	assert.Equal(t, []string{"test-warning-3"}, GetWarnings(span3))
+}
diff --git a/internal/jptrace/warning.go b/internal/jptrace/warning.go
index 0d96296c214..5247930fc25 100644
--- a/internal/jptrace/warning.go
+++ b/internal/jptrace/warning.go
@@ -16,14 +16,16 @@ const (
 	warningsAttribute = "jaeger.internal.warnings"
 )
 
-func AddWarning(span ptrace.Span, warning string) {
-	var warnings pcommon.Slice
+func AddWarnings(span ptrace.Span, warnings ...string) {
+	var w pcommon.Slice
 	if currWarnings, ok := span.Attributes().Get(warningsAttribute); ok {
-		warnings = currWarnings.Slice()
+		w = currWarnings.Slice()
 	} else {
-		warnings = span.Attributes().PutEmptySlice(warningsAttribute)
+		w = span.Attributes().PutEmptySlice(warningsAttribute)
+	}
+	for _, warning := range warnings {
+		w.AppendEmpty().SetStr(warning)
 	}
-	warnings.AppendEmpty().SetStr(warning)
 }
 
 func GetWarnings(span ptrace.Span) []string {
diff --git a/internal/jptrace/warning_test.go b/internal/jptrace/warning_test.go
index b8e3c38032c..9bc62437dd4 100644
--- a/internal/jptrace/warning_test.go
+++ b/internal/jptrace/warning_test.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/ptrace"
 )
 
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ func TestAddWarning(t *testing.T) {
 					warnings.AppendEmpty().SetStr(warn)
 				}
 			}
-			AddWarning(span, test.newWarn)
+			AddWarnings(span, test.newWarn)
 			warnings, ok := attrs.Get("jaeger.internal.warnings")
 			assert.True(t, ok)
 			assert.Equal(t, len(test.expected), warnings.Slice().Len())
@@ -57,6 +58,15 @@ func TestAddWarning(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestAddWarning_MultipleWarnings(t *testing.T) {
+	span := ptrace.NewSpan()
+	AddWarnings(span, "warning-1", "warning-2")
+	warnings, ok := span.Attributes().Get("jaeger.internal.warnings")
+	require.True(t, ok)
+	require.Equal(t, "warning-1", warnings.Slice().At(0).Str())
+	require.Equal(t, "warning-2", warnings.Slice().At(1).Str())
+}
+
 func TestGetWarnings(t *testing.T) {
 	tests := []struct {
 		name     string
diff --git a/storage_v2/v1adapter/reader.go b/storage_v2/v1adapter/reader.go
index a3d2293dd25..04508a1247c 100644
--- a/storage_v2/v1adapter/reader.go
+++ b/storage_v2/v1adapter/reader.go
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
 
-	model2otel "github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pkg/translator/jaeger"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/pcommon"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/ptrace"
 
+	"github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/internal/jptrace"
 	"github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/model"
 	"github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/pkg/iter"
 	"github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/storage/dependencystore"
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ func (tr *TraceReader) GetTraces(
 				return
 			}
 			batch := &model.Batch{Spans: t.GetSpans()}
-			tr, err := model2otel.ProtoToTraces([]*model.Batch{batch})
-			if !yield([]ptrace.Traces{tr}, err) || err != nil {
+			tr := jptrace.ProtoToTraces([]*model.Batch{batch})
+			if !yield([]ptrace.Traces{tr}, nil) {
 				return
 			}
 		}
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ func (tr *TraceReader) FindTraces(
 		}
 		for _, trace := range traces {
 			batch := &model.Batch{Spans: trace.GetSpans()}
-			otelTrace, _ := model2otel.ProtoToTraces([]*model.Batch{batch})
+			otelTrace := jptrace.ProtoToTraces([]*model.Batch{batch})
 			if !yield([]ptrace.Traces{otelTrace}, nil) {
 				return
 			}