diff --git a/lib/sentry/opentelemetry/span_processor.ex b/lib/sentry/opentelemetry/span_processor.ex
index e8940591..975190c0 100644
--- a/lib/sentry/opentelemetry/span_processor.ex
+++ b/lib/sentry/opentelemetry/span_processor.ex
@@ -289,6 +289,11 @@ if Sentry.OpenTelemetry.VersionChecker.tracing_compatible?() do
         data: data
       }
 
+      # The root span is the transaction, so it is not copied into `spans`.
+      # Its HTTP status still has to land on contexts.trace; child spans keep
+      # their own status from build_span/1. Skip the key when there is none.
+      context = put_trace_status(context, span_status(span_record))
+
       # Add links if present (for root spans, links go in trace context)
       if span_record.links != [] do
         Map.put(context, :links, format_links(span_record.links))
@@ -297,6 +302,9 @@ if Sentry.OpenTelemetry.VersionChecker.tracing_compatible?() do
       end
     end
 
+    defp put_trace_status(context, nil), do: context
+    defp put_trace_status(context, status), do: Map.put(context, :status, status)
+
     defp get_op_description(
            %{
              attributes: %{
diff --git a/test/sentry/opentelemetry/span_processor_test.exs b/test/sentry/opentelemetry/span_processor_test.exs
index efe891b8..fe026361 100644
--- a/test/sentry/opentelemetry/span_processor_test.exs
+++ b/test/sentry/opentelemetry/span_processor_test.exs
@@ -730,6 +730,61 @@ defmodule Sentry.Opentelemetry.SpanProcessorTest do
     end
   end
 
+  describe "HTTP transaction status" do
+    @tag span_storage: true
+    test "copies the root span HTTP status onto contexts.trace", %{bypass: bypass} do
+      put_test_config(
+        environment_name: "test",
+        traces_sample_rate: 1.0,
+        traces_ignore_http_status_codes: []
+      )
+
+      # 302 stays "unknown_error": to_status/1 is unchanged. This only checks
+      # that the status already computed for the root span reaches the transaction.
+      for {status_code, expected_status} <- [
+            {200, "ok"},
+            {302, "unknown_error"},
+            {404, "not_found"},
+            {500, "internal_error"}
+          ] do
+        ref = setup_bypass_envelope_collector(bypass)
+
+        Tracer.with_span "GET /api/items", %{
+          kind: :server,
+          attributes: %{
+            HTTPAttributes.http_request_method() => :GET,
+            URLAttributes.url_path() => "/api/items",
+            HTTPAttributes.http_response_status_code() => status_code
+          }
+        } do
+          Tracer.with_span "GET /downstream", %{
+            kind: :client,
+            attributes: %{
+              HTTPAttributes.http_request_method() => :GET,
+              URLAttributes.url_path() => "/downstream",
+              HTTPAttributes.http_response_status_code() => 201
+            }
+          } do
+            Process.sleep(1)
+          end
+        end
+
+        [tx] = collect_sentry_transactions(ref, 1)
+
+        assert tx["contexts"]["trace"]["op"] == "http.server"
+        assert tx["contexts"]["trace"]["span_id"]
+        assert tx["contexts"]["trace"]["trace_id"]
+
+        assert tx["contexts"]["trace"]["status"] == expected_status,
+               "HTTP #{status_code}: expected transaction status #{inspect(expected_status)}, got #{inspect(tx["contexts"]["trace"]["status"])}"
+
+        assert [child] = tx["spans"]
+        assert child["status"] == "ok"
+        assert child["data"]["http.response.status_code"] == 201
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
   describe "race condition: parent finishes before child" do
     @tag span_storage: true
     test "in-progress child span is preserved and becomes transaction root when parent finishes first",
diff --git a/test_integrations/phoenix_app/test/phoenix_app/distributed_traces_test.exs b/test_integrations/phoenix_app/test/phoenix_app/distributed_traces_test.exs
index 278e7402..1d4b79bd 100644
--- a/test_integrations/phoenix_app/test/phoenix_app/distributed_traces_test.exs
+++ b/test_integrations/phoenix_app/test/phoenix_app/distributed_traces_test.exs
@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ defmodule PhoenixApp.DistributedTracesTest do
   @remote_span_id String.duplicate("b", 16)
 
   setup do
-    Sentry.Test.setup_sentry(collect_envelopes: true, traces_sample_rate: 1.0)
+    # Runtime metrics, logs, and client reports share this Bypass. Collecting
+    # the first envelope of any type drops the transaction when one of those
+    # arrives first.
+    Sentry.Test.setup_sentry(
+      collect_envelopes: [type: "transaction"],
+      traces_sample_rate: 1.0
+    )
   end
 
   test "work continuing an upstream trace is reported with its instrumented spans", %{ref: ref} do
@@ -22,7 +28,7 @@ defmodule PhoenixApp.DistributedTracesTest do
     end
 
     assert [tx] = collect_sentry_transactions(ref, 1, timeout: 500),
-             "nothing was reported for work continuing an upstream trace"
+           "nothing was reported for work continuing an upstream trace"
 
     assert tx["transaction"] == "etl.sync"