# Connecting OpenTelemetry Traces with Sentry Errors in One Trace Waterfall

DevFeed: [Connecting OpenTelemetry Traces with Sentry Errors in One Trace Waterfall](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/your-otel-spans-our-errors-a-sentry-love-story-in-one-trace-24106.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.sentry.io/otel-spans-errors-sentry-trace/>)

Author: Johannes Daxböck; Neel Shah

Published: 2026-08-05T09:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Sentry Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/sentry-blog.md>)

Topics: [OpenTelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentelemetry.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tracing.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>)

Tags: [errors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/errors.md>), [instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instrumentation.md>), [logs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logs.md>), [opentelemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentelemetry.md>), [sdk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdk.md>), [sdks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdks.md>), [sentry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sentry.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>)

## AI overview

Sentry's OtlpIntegration connects OpenTelemetry traces with Sentry errors and other events, allowing them to appear together in a trace waterfall. It reads the active OTel trace context and associates it with Sentry events while configuring an OTLP exporter for Sentry.

## Source excerpt

The OtlpIntegration bridges OTel traces and Sentry errors. Keep your OTel setup, add Sentry for errors, and see both in one trace waterfall.