diff --git a/crates/stackable-telemetry/CHANGELOG.md b/crates/stackable-telemetry/CHANGELOG.md
index 6bda3fc40..2d9b6b82b 100644
--- a/crates/stackable-telemetry/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/crates/stackable-telemetry/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,7 +8,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 - Bump `opentelemetry` and related crates to `0.29.x` and `tracing-opentelemetry` to `0.30.0` ([#1021]).
 
+### Fixed
+
+- Only derive `clap::ValueEnum` if the `clap` feature is enabled ([#1026]).
+
 [#1021]: https://github.com/stackabletech/operator-rs/pull/1021
+[#1026]: https://github.com/stackabletech/operator-rs/pull/1026
 
 ## [0.6.0] - 2025-04-14
 
diff --git a/crates/stackable-telemetry/src/tracing/settings/console_log.rs b/crates/stackable-telemetry/src/tracing/settings/console_log.rs
index cdcd43637..18a8aa2bb 100644
--- a/crates/stackable-telemetry/src/tracing/settings/console_log.rs
+++ b/crates/stackable-telemetry/src/tracing/settings/console_log.rs
@@ -24,9 +24,8 @@ pub enum ConsoleLogSettings {
 /// Console subscriber log event output formats.
 ///
 /// Currently, only [Plain][Format::Plain] is supported.
-#[derive(
-    Clone, Debug, Default, Eq, PartialEq, strum::EnumString, strum::Display, clap::ValueEnum,
-)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default, Eq, PartialEq, strum::EnumString, strum::Display)]
+#[cfg_attr(feature = "clap", derive(clap::ValueEnum))]
 #[strum(serialize_all = "snake_case")]
 pub enum Format {
     /// Use the plain unstructured log output.