getsentry · mydea · Jul 23, 2026 · Jul 23, 2026 · Jul 23, 2026 · cursor
diff --git a/packages/core/src/tracing/index.ts b/packages/core/src/tracing/index.ts
@@ -13,8 +13,14 @@ export { startIdleSpan, TRACING_DEFAULTS } from './idleSpan';
 export { SentrySpan } from './sentrySpan';
 export { _INTERNAL_setDeferSegmentSpanCapture } from './deferSegmentSpanCapture';
 export { SentryNonRecordingSpan } from './sentryNonRecordingSpan';
-export { setHttpStatus, getSpanStatusFromHttpCode } from './spanstatus';
-export { SPAN_STATUS_ERROR, SPAN_STATUS_OK, SPAN_STATUS_UNSET } from './spanstatus';
+export {
+  setHttpStatus,
+  getSpanStatusFromHttpCode,
+  isStatusErrorMessageValid,
+  SPAN_STATUS_ERROR,
+  SPAN_STATUS_OK,
+  SPAN_STATUS_UNSET,
+} from './spanstatus';
 export {
   startSpan,
   startInactiveSpan,

diff --git a/packages/core/src/tracing/spanstatus.ts b/packages/core/src/tracing/spanstatus.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 import type { Span } from '../types/span';
-import type { SpanStatus } from '../types/spanStatus';
+import type { SpanStatusType } from '../types/spanStatus';
+import { SPAN_STATUS_TYPES, type SpanStatus } from '../types/spanStatus';
 
 export const SPAN_STATUS_UNSET = 0;
 export const SPAN_STATUS_OK = 1;
 export const SPAN_STATUS_ERROR = 2;
 
+export function isStatusErrorMessageValid(message: string): boolean {
+  return SPAN_STATUS_TYPES.includes(message as SpanStatusType);
+}
+
 /**
  * Converts a HTTP status code into a sentry status with a message.
  *

diff --git a/packages/core/src/types/spanStatus.ts b/packages/core/src/types/spanStatus.ts
@@ -1,38 +1,41 @@
-export type SpanStatusType =
+export const SPAN_STATUS_TYPES = [
   /** The operation completed successfully. */
- | 'ok'
+  'ok',
   /** Deadline expired before operation could complete. */
- | 'deadline_exceeded'
+  'deadline_exceeded',
   /** 401 Unauthorized (actually does mean unauthenticated according to RFC 7235) */
- | 'unauthenticated'
+  'unauthenticated',
   /** 403 Forbidden */
- | 'permission_denied'
+  'permission_denied',
   /** 404 Not Found. Some requested entity (file or directory) was not found. */
- | 'not_found'
+  'not_found',
   /** 429 Too Many Requests */
- | 'resource_exhausted'
+  'resource_exhausted',
   /** Client specified an invalid argument. 4xx. */
- | 'invalid_argument'
+  'invalid_argument',
   /** 501 Not Implemented */
- | 'unimplemented'
+  'unimplemented',
   /** 503 Service Unavailable */
- | 'unavailable'
+  'unavailable',
   /** Other/generic 5xx. */
- | 'internal_error'
+  'internal_error',
   /** Unknown. Any non-standard HTTP status code. */
- | 'unknown_error'
+  'unknown_error',
   /** The operation was cancelled (typically by the user). */
- | 'cancelled'
+  'cancelled',
   /** Already exists (409) */
- | 'already_exists'
+  'already_exists',
   /** Operation was rejected because the system is not in a state required for the operation's */
- | 'failed_precondition'
+  'failed_precondition',
   /** The operation was aborted, typically due to a concurrency issue. */
- | 'aborted'
+  'aborted',
   /** Operation was attempted past the valid range. */
- | 'out_of_range'
+  'out_of_range',
   /** Unrecoverable data loss or corruption */
-  | 'data_loss';
+  'data_loss',
+] as const;
+
+export type SpanStatusType = (typeof SPAN_STATUS_TYPES)[number];
 
 // These are aligned with OpenTelemetry span status codes
 const SPAN_STATUS_UNSET = 0;

diff --git a/packages/core/src/utils/spanUtils.ts b/packages/core/src/utils/spanUtils.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import {
   SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_STATUS_MESSAGE,
 } from '../semanticAttributes';
 import type { SentrySpan } from '../tracing/sentrySpan';
-import { SPAN_STATUS_OK, SPAN_STATUS_UNSET } from '../tracing/spanstatus';
+import { isStatusErrorMessageValid, SPAN_STATUS_OK, SPAN_STATUS_UNSET } from '../tracing/spanstatus';
 import { getCapturedScopesOnSpan } from '../tracing/utils';
 import type { TraceContext } from '../types/context';
 import type { SpanLink, SpanLinkJSON } from '../types/link';
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ export function getStatusMessage(status: SpanStatus | undefined): string | undef
     return 'ok';
   }
 
-  return status.message || 'internal_error';
+  return status.message && isStatusErrorMessageValid(status.message) ? status.message : 'internal_error';
 }
 
 /**

diff --git a/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/sentrySpan.test.ts b/packages/core/test/lib/tracing/sentrySpan.test.ts
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ describe('SentrySpan', () => {
   describe('tracer-provider span sealing', () => {
     it('seals a tracer-provider span against all mutation after it ends', () => {
       const span = new SentrySpan({ name: 'original', startTimestamp: 1, attributes: { key: 'before' } });
-      span.setStatus({ code: SPAN_STATUS_ERROR, message: 'before' });
+      span.setStatus({ code: SPAN_STATUS_ERROR, message: 'permission_denied' });
       span.addEvent('measurement', {
         [SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_MEASUREMENT_VALUE]: 1,
         [SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_MEASUREMENT_UNIT]: 'millisecond',
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ describe('SentrySpan', () => {
       // Every mutator must no-op on a tracer-provider span once it has ended, mirroring OTel SDK spans.
       span.setAttribute('key', 'after');
       span.setAttributes({ key2: 'after' });
-      span.setStatus({ code: SPAN_STATUS_ERROR, message: 'after' });
+      span.setStatus({ code: SPAN_STATUS_ERROR, message: 'already_exists' });
       span.updateName('after');
       span.updateStartTime(999);
       span.addLink({ context: linked.spanContext() });
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ describe('SentrySpan', () => {
       const json = spanToJSON(span);
       expect(json.data?.['key']).toBe('before');
       expect(json.data?.['key2']).toBeUndefined();
-      expect(json.status).toBe('before');
+      expect(json.status).toBe('permission_denied');
       expect(json.description).toBe('original');
       expect(json.start_timestamp).toBe(1);
       expect(json.links).toBeUndefined();

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Deno.test('denoRedisIntegration: errors on the command channel set span status',
   // as `status: 'X'` (the message takes the slot). Both "not ok" and the
   // forwarded message confirm the error path fired.
   assert(redisSpan!.status && redisSpan!.status !== 'ok', `expected error-shaped status, got ${redisSpan!.status}`);
-  assertEquals(redisSpan!.status, 'ECONNREFUSED');
+  assertEquals(redisSpan!.status, 'internal_error');
 });
 
 Deno.test('denoRedisIntegration: ioredis:command channel produces a db.redis child span', async () => {

@@ -12,9 +12,10 @@ import {
   spanToJSON,
   SPAN_STATUS_ERROR,
   SPAN_STATUS_OK,
+  isStatusErrorMessageValid,
 } from '@sentry/core';
 import type { Span, SpanAttributes } from '@sentry/core';
-import { inferStatusFromAttributes, isStatusErrorMessageValid } from './utils/mapStatus';
+import { inferStatusFromAttributes } from './utils/mapStatus';
 import { inferSpanData } from './utils/parseSpanDescription';
 
 type SentrySpanWithOtelKind = Span & { kind?: SpanKind };

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { SpanStatusCode } from '@opentelemetry/api';
 import { HTTP_RESPONSE_STATUS_CODE, HTTP_STATUS_CODE, RPC_GRPC_STATUS_CODE } from '@sentry/conventions/attributes';
 import type { SpanAttributes, SpanStatus } from '@sentry/core';
-import { getSpanStatusFromHttpCode, SPAN_STATUS_ERROR, SPAN_STATUS_OK } from '@sentry/core';
+import { getSpanStatusFromHttpCode, isStatusErrorMessageValid, SPAN_STATUS_ERROR, SPAN_STATUS_OK } from '@sentry/core';
 import type { AbstractSpan } from '../types';
 import { spanHasAttributes, spanHasStatus } from './spanTypes';
 
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ const canonicalGrpcErrorCodesMap: Record<string, SpanStatus['message']> = {
   '16': 'unauthenticated',
 } as const;
 
-export const isStatusErrorMessageValid = (message: string): boolean => {
-  return Object.values(canonicalGrpcErrorCodesMap).includes(message as SpanStatus['message']);
-};
-
 /**
  * Get a Sentry span status from an otel span.
  */

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {
   getCapturedScopesOnSpan,
   getRootSpan,
   spanToJSON,
+  spanToStreamedSpanJSON,
   SPAN_STATUS_ERROR,
   SPAN_STATUS_OK,
   startSpanManual,
@@ -194,15 +195,17 @@ describe('SentryTracerProvider', () => {
 
   it('preserves a non-canonical error status message under span streaming', () => {
     // Under streaming the streamed serializer surfaces the raw message as `sentry.status.message`, so
-    // finalizing must not normalize it to `internal_error` the way it does for the non-streamed
-    // transaction status field. Without streaming, `finalizes span statuses` covers the `internal_error` case.
+    // finalizing must not overwrite the live span status. The transaction `status` field is always
+    // normalized to a valid value (`internal_error`), but the raw message survives on the streamed span.
     initTestClient({ tracesSampleRate: 1, traceLifecycle: 'stream' });
     const span = trace.getTracer('test').startSpan('db-error');
     span.setStatus({ code: SPAN_STATUS_ERROR, message: 'Cannot enqueue Query after fatal error.' });
 
     applyOtelSpanData(span as Span, { finalizeStatus: true });
 
-    expect(spanToJSON(span as Span).status).toBe('Cannot enqueue Query after fatal error.');
+    const streamed = spanToStreamedSpanJSON(span as Span);
+    expect(streamed.status).toBe('error');
+    expect(streamed.attributes?.['sentry.status.message']).toBe('Cannot enqueue Query after fatal error.');
   });
 
   it('infers route source, op, and name for HTTP server spans', () => {

@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ describe('subscribeMysql2DiagnosticChannels', () => {
         { error: new Error('table missing') },
       );
 
-      expect(spanToJSON(span!).status).toBe('table missing');
+      expect(spanToJSON(span!).status).toBe('internal_error');
       expect(spanToJSON(span!).timestamp).toBeDefined();
       expect(captureExceptionSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     });

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import {
   resolvedSyncPromise,
   setAsyncContextStrategy,
   spanToJSON,
+  spanToStreamedSpanJSON,
   startInactiveSpan,
   startSpan,
 } from '@sentry/core';
@@ -292,7 +293,7 @@ describe('bindTracingChannelToSpan', () => {
       ).toThrow(error);
 
       expect(endSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('sync-throw');
+      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('internal_error');
       expect(captureExceptionSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     });
 
@@ -361,7 +362,7 @@ describe('bindTracingChannelToSpan', () => {
       await expect(promise).rejects.toThrow(error);
 
       expect(endSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('async-reject');
+      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('internal_error');
       expect(captureExceptionSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     });
 
@@ -379,7 +380,7 @@ describe('bindTracingChannelToSpan', () => {
       ).toThrow(error);
 
       expect(endSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('promise-sync-throw');
+      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('internal_error');
       expect(captureExceptionSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     });
 
@@ -421,7 +422,7 @@ describe('bindTracingChannelToSpan', () => {
       });
 
       expect(endSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('callback-error');
+      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('internal_error');
       expect(captureExceptionSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     });
 
@@ -442,7 +443,7 @@ describe('bindTracingChannelToSpan', () => {
       ).toThrow(error);
 
       expect(endSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
-      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('callback-sync-throw');
+      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('internal_error');
       expect(captureExceptionSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     });
 
@@ -459,8 +460,11 @@ describe('bindTracingChannelToSpan', () => {
           ),
         ).toThrow('bad input');
 
+        // The transaction status field is normalized to a valid value; the raw message survives on
+        // the streamed span as `sentry.status.message`.
         const { status, data } = spanToJSON(span);
-        expect(status).toBe('bad input');
+        expect(status).toBe('internal_error');
+        expect(spanToStreamedSpanJSON(span).attributes?.['sentry.status.message']).toBe('bad input');
         expect(data['error.type']).toBe('TypeError');
       });
 
@@ -477,7 +481,8 @@ describe('bindTracingChannelToSpan', () => {
         ).toThrow('plain failure');
 
         const { status, data } = spanToJSON(span);
-        expect(status).toBe('plain failure');
+        expect(status).toBe('internal_error');
+        expect(spanToStreamedSpanJSON(span).attributes?.['sentry.status.message']).toBe('plain failure');
         expect(data['error.type']).toBe('unknown');
       });
 
@@ -546,7 +551,7 @@ describe('bindTracingChannelToSpan', () => {
       ).rejects.toThrow(error);
 
       expect(captureExceptionSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('db-down');
+      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('internal_error');
       expect(spanToJSON(span).timestamp).toBeDefined();
     });
 
@@ -576,7 +581,7 @@ describe('bindTracingChannelToSpan', () => {
       expect(captureExceptionSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(error, {
         mechanism: { type: 'auto.diagnostic_channels.bind_span', handled: false },
       });
-      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('boom');
+      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('internal_error');
     });
 
     it('captures the exception on the synchronous error path when `captureError` is true', () => {
@@ -605,7 +610,7 @@ describe('bindTracingChannelToSpan', () => {
       expect(captureExceptionSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(error, {
         mechanism: { type: 'auto.diagnostic_channels.bind_span', handled: false },
       });
-      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('sync-boom');
+      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('internal_error');
     });
 
     it('captures the exception on the callback error path when `captureError` is true', async () => {
@@ -637,7 +642,7 @@ describe('bindTracingChannelToSpan', () => {
       expect(captureExceptionSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(error, {
         mechanism: { type: 'auto.diagnostic_channels.bind_span', handled: false },
       });
-      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('callback-boom');
+      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('internal_error');
     });
 
     it('captures the exception with the hint returned by a `captureError` function, passing it the thrown error', async () => {
@@ -669,7 +674,7 @@ describe('bindTracingChannelToSpan', () => {
       expect(captureExceptionSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(error, {
         mechanism: { type: 'auto.http.custom', handled: false },
       });
-      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('boom');
+      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('internal_error');
     });
 
     it('uses the default mechanism when `captureError` is a function on the synchronous error path', () => {
@@ -826,7 +831,7 @@ describe('bindTracingChannelToSpan', () => {
     it('`end(error)` sets error status and the `error.type` attribute, then ends', () => {
       const { span, endSpy, end } = setupDeferred('test:defer:error');
       end(new TypeError('stream blew up'));
-      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('stream blew up');
+      expect(spanToJSON(span).status).toBe('internal_error');
       expect(spanToJSON(span).data['error.type']).toBe('TypeError');
       expect(endSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
     });