From 5075d2261aab7b6ceaaca5c65793620bbe5b3094 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neel Shah <neel.shah@sentry.io>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 14:00:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add empty tags by default to transaction

---
 sentry_sdk/opentelemetry/span_processor.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/sentry_sdk/opentelemetry/span_processor.py b/sentry_sdk/opentelemetry/span_processor.py
index 16d2f9e6b3..a5dc2e23a7 100644
--- a/sentry_sdk/opentelemetry/span_processor.py
+++ b/sentry_sdk/opentelemetry/span_processor.py
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ def _root_span_to_transaction_event(self, span: ReadableSpan) -> Optional[Event]
         if span.resource.attributes:
             contexts[OTEL_SENTRY_CONTEXT] = {"resource": dict(span.resource.attributes)}
 
+        event.setdefault("tags", {})
         event.update(
             {
                 "type": "transaction",