diff --git a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/tests/perfstress_tests/trace_exporter.py b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/tests/perfstress_tests/trace_exporter.py
index e22ec6588369..d5268a5fd843 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/tests/perfstress_tests/trace_exporter.py
+++ b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/tests/perfstress_tests/trace_exporter.py
@@ -39,8 +39,9 @@ def run_sync(self):
         Avoid putting any ancilliary logic (e.g. generating UUIDs), and put this in the setup/init instead
         so that we're only measuring the client API call.
         """
-        with tracer.start_as_current_span("hello"):
-            print("Hello, World!")
+        for _ in range(self.args.num_traces):
+            with tracer.start_as_current_span("hello"):
+                print("Hello, World!")
 
     @staticmethod
     def add_arguments(parser):