diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3b1e93c41a..a37ad4a60f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ pip-wheel-metadata
 .mypy_cache
 .vscode/
 .claude/
+.tool-versions
 
 # for running AWS Lambda tests using AWS SAM
 sam.template.yaml
diff --git a/sentry_sdk/integrations/otlp.py b/sentry_sdk/integrations/otlp.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8ba51c629b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sentry_sdk/integrations/otlp.py
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+from sentry_sdk.integrations import Integration, DidNotEnable
+from sentry_sdk.scope import add_global_event_processor
+from sentry_sdk.utils import logger
+
+try:
+    from opentelemetry import trace
+    from opentelemetry.propagate import set_global_textmap
+    from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
+    from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
+    from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
+
+    from sentry_sdk.integrations.opentelemetry.propagator import SentryPropagator
+except ImportError:
+    raise DidNotEnable("opentelemetry-distro[otlp] is not installed")
+
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from typing import Optional
+    from sentry_sdk._types import Event, Hint
+
+
+def link_event_to_trace(event, _hint):
+    # type: (Event, Optional[Hint]) -> Optional[Event]
+    """
+    Get the trace info from the running otel span and
+    update the trace context on sentry events of other types
+    (errors, logs, checkins, etc).
+    """
+    if hasattr(event, "type") and event["type"] == "transaction":
+        return event
+
+    otel_span = trace.get_current_span()
+    if not otel_span:
+        return event
+
+    ctx = otel_span.get_span_context()
+
+    if ctx.trace_id == trace.INVALID_TRACE_ID or ctx.span_id == trace.INVALID_SPAN_ID:
+        return event
+
+    contexts = event.setdefault("contexts", {})
+    contexts.setdefault("trace", {}).update(
+        {
+            "trace_id": trace.format_trace_id(ctx.trace_id),
+            "span_id": trace.format_span_id(ctx.span_id),
+            "status": "ok",  # TODO
+        }
+    )
+
+    return event
+
+
+def setup_otlp_exporter():
+    # type: () -> None
+    tracer_provider = trace.get_tracer_provider()
+
+    if not isinstance(tracer_provider, TracerProvider):
+        logger.debug("[OTLP] No TracerProvider configured by user, creating a new one")
+        tracer_provider = TracerProvider()
+        trace.set_tracer_provider(tracer_provider)
+
+    otlp_exporter = OTLPSpanExporter()
+    span_processor = BatchSpanProcessor(otlp_exporter)
+    tracer_provider.add_span_processor(span_processor)
+
+
+class OtlpIntegration(Integration):
+    identifier = "otlp"
+    setup_otlp_exporter = True
+    setup_propagator = True
+
+    def __init__(self, setup_otlp_exporter=True, setup_propagator=True):
+        # type: (bool, bool) -> None
+        OtlpIntegration.setup_otlp_exporter = setup_otlp_exporter
+        OtlpIntegration.setup_propagator = setup_propagator
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def setup_once():
+        # type: () -> None
+        logger.debug("[OTLP] Setting up trace linking for all events")
+        add_global_event_processor(link_event_to_trace)
+
+        if OtlpIntegration.setup_otlp_exporter:
+            logger.debug("[OTLP] Setting up OTLP exporter")
+            setup_otlp_exporter()
+
+        if OtlpIntegration.setup_propagator:
+            logger.debug("[OTLP] Setting up propagator for distributed tracing")
+            set_global_textmap(SentryPropagator())
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b3b7ebb737..a872d1ddf6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def get_file_text(file_name):
         "openai": ["openai>=1.0.0", "tiktoken>=0.3.0"],
         "openfeature": ["openfeature-sdk>=0.7.1"],
         "opentelemetry": ["opentelemetry-distro>=0.35b0"],
-        "opentelemetry-experimental": ["opentelemetry-distro"],
+        "opentelemetry-otlp": ["opentelemetry-distro[otlp]>=0.35b0"],
         "pure-eval": ["pure_eval", "executing", "asttokens"],
         "pydantic_ai": ["pydantic-ai>=1.0.0"],
         "pymongo": ["pymongo>=3.1"],
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 9a663a12c7..e49aa4b4ec 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ envlist =
     # OpenTelemetry (OTel)
     {py3.7,py3.9,py3.12,py3.13,py3.14,py3.14t}-opentelemetry
 
+    # OpenTelemetry with OTLP
+    {py3.7,py3.9,py3.12,py3.13,py3.14,py3.14t}-otlp
+
     # OpenTelemetry Experimental (POTel)
     {py3.8,py3.9,py3.10,py3.11,py3.12,py3.13}-potel
 
@@ -342,6 +345,9 @@ deps =
     # OpenTelemetry (OTel)
     opentelemetry: opentelemetry-distro
 
+    # OpenTelemetry with OTLP
+    otlp: opentelemetry-distro[otlp]
+
     # OpenTelemetry Experimental (POTel)
     potel: -e .[opentelemetry-experimental]
 
@@ -765,6 +771,7 @@ setenv =
     cloud_resource_context: TESTPATH=tests/integrations/cloud_resource_context
     gcp: TESTPATH=tests/integrations/gcp
     opentelemetry: TESTPATH=tests/integrations/opentelemetry
+    otlp: TESTPATH=tests/integrations/otlp
     potel: TESTPATH=tests/integrations/opentelemetry
     socket: TESTPATH=tests/integrations/socket