diff --git a/autoinstrumentation/nodejs/Dockerfile b/autoinstrumentation/nodejs/Dockerfile
index 48f1f9ae75..c37549e40c 100644
--- a/autoinstrumentation/nodejs/Dockerfile
+++ b/autoinstrumentation/nodejs/Dockerfile
@@ -21,3 +21,7 @@ FROM busybox
 COPY --from=build /operator-build/build/workspace /autoinstrumentation
 
 RUN chmod -R go+r /autoinstrumentation
+
+# Backward compatibility with old operator version
+RUN cp -r /autoinstrumentation/node_modules/@opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node/build/src/. /autoinstrumentation
+RUN ln /autoinstrumentation/register.js /autoinstrumentation/autoinstrumentation.js
diff --git a/autoinstrumentation/nodejs/package.json b/autoinstrumentation/nodejs/package.json
index 11fc4006ce..14734573d8 100644
--- a/autoinstrumentation/nodejs/package.json
+++ b/autoinstrumentation/nodejs/package.json
@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@
     "private": true,
     "scripts": {
         "clean": "rimraf build/*",
-        "prepare": "npm run compile",
-        "compile": "tsc -p .",
-        "postcompile": "copyfiles -f 'build/src/**' build/workspace/ && copyfiles 'node_modules/**' package.json build/workspace/ && npm -C build/workspace prune --omit=dev --no-package-lock"
+        "postinstall": "copyfiles -f 'build/src/**' build/workspace/ && copyfiles 'node_modules/**' package.json build/workspace/ && npm -C build/workspace prune --omit=dev --no-package-lock"
     },
     "devDependencies": {
         "copyfiles": "^2.4.1",
@@ -14,8 +12,7 @@
         "typescript": "^5.6.3"
     },
     "dependencies": {
-        "@opentelemetry/exporter-metrics-otlp-grpc": "0.55.0",
-        "@opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node": "0.53.0",
-        "@opentelemetry/exporter-prometheus": "0.55.0"
+        "@opentelemetry/api": "1.9.0",
+        "@opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node": "0.56.0"
     }
 }
diff --git a/autoinstrumentation/nodejs/src/autoinstrumentation.ts b/autoinstrumentation/nodejs/src/autoinstrumentation.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a4aabc4a7..0000000000
--- a/autoinstrumentation/nodejs/src/autoinstrumentation.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-import { getNodeAutoInstrumentations } from '@opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node';
-import { OTLPTraceExporter as OTLPProtoTraceExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-proto';
-import { OTLPTraceExporter as OTLPHttpTraceExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http';
-import { OTLPTraceExporter as OTLPGrpcTraceExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-grpc';
-import { OTLPMetricExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-metrics-otlp-grpc';
-import { PrometheusExporter } from '@opentelemetry/exporter-prometheus';
-import { PeriodicExportingMetricReader } from '@opentelemetry/sdk-metrics';
-import { alibabaCloudEcsDetector } from '@opentelemetry/resource-detector-alibaba-cloud';
-import { awsEc2Detector, awsEksDetector } from '@opentelemetry/resource-detector-aws';
-import { containerDetector } from '@opentelemetry/resource-detector-container';
-import { gcpDetector } from '@opentelemetry/resource-detector-gcp';
-import { envDetector, hostDetector, osDetector, processDetector } from '@opentelemetry/resources';
-import { diag } from '@opentelemetry/api';
-
-import { NodeSDK } from '@opentelemetry/sdk-node';
-
-function getTraceExporter() {
-    let protocol = process.env.OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL;
-    switch (protocol) {
-        case undefined:
-        case '':
-        case 'grpc':
-            return new OTLPGrpcTraceExporter();
-        case 'http/json':
-            return new OTLPHttpTraceExporter();
-        case 'http/protobuf':
-            return new OTLPProtoTraceExporter();
-        default:
-            throw Error(`Creating traces exporter based on "${protocol}" protocol (configured via environment variable OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL) is not implemented!`);
-    }
-}
-
-function getMetricReader() {
-    switch (process.env.OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER) {
-        case undefined:
-        case '':
-        case 'otlp':
-            diag.info('using otel metrics exporter');
-            return new PeriodicExportingMetricReader({
-                exporter: new OTLPMetricExporter(),
-            });
-        case 'prometheus':
-            diag.info('using prometheus metrics exporter');
-            return new PrometheusExporter({});
-        case 'none':
-            diag.info('disabling metrics reader');
-            return undefined;
-        default:
-            throw Error(`no valid option for OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER: ${process.env.OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER}`)
-    }
-}
-
-const sdk = new NodeSDK({
-    autoDetectResources: true,
-    instrumentations: [getNodeAutoInstrumentations()],
-    traceExporter: getTraceExporter(),
-    metricReader: getMetricReader(),
-    resourceDetectors:
-        [
-            // Standard resource detectors.
-            containerDetector,
-            envDetector,
-            hostDetector,
-            osDetector,
-            processDetector,
-
-            // Cloud resource detectors.
-            alibabaCloudEcsDetector,
-            // Ordered AWS Resource Detectors as per:
-            // https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/blob/main/processor/resourcedetectionprocessor/README.md#ordering
-            awsEksDetector,
-            awsEc2Detector,
-            gcpDetector,
-        ],
-});
-
-sdk.start();