How to drop an ongoing transaction

[zhukic]

Description

Hi!

What's the best way not to log an ongoing transaction?

I found an approach with transaction.spanContext.sampled = false, but the setSampled method is marked with @ApiStatus.Internal annotation, so I'm not sure if it's ok to use it.

Thanks!

[linear]

JAVA-137 How to drop a transaction

[adinauer]

You can drop a transaction by returning null from beforeSendTransaction as documented here: https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/java/configuration/filtering/#using-before-send-transaction

Ideally you don't even start the transaction if you know in advance you don't want it.

Is this a transaction

• you're creating manually
• one created automatically by our instrumentation
• one created by OpenTelemetry

[lcian]

Closing as done, please reach out if you have any further questions @zhukic!