diff --git a/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/opentelemetry/SpanDescriptionExtractor.java b/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/opentelemetry/SpanDescriptionExtractor.java
index 3af3d8f96f..d4dde49a4b 100644
--- a/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/opentelemetry/SpanDescriptionExtractor.java
+++ b/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-core/src/main/java/io/sentry/opentelemetry/SpanDescriptionExtractor.java
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import io.opentelemetry.semconv.incubating.MessagingIncubatingAttributes;
 import io.sentry.SentryOptions;
 import io.sentry.protocol.TransactionNameSource;
+import io.sentry.util.UrlUtils;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.ApiStatus;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
@@ -77,10 +78,8 @@ private OtelSpanInfo descriptionForHttpMethod(
     final @NotNull String op = opBuilder.toString();
 
     final @Nullable String urlFull = attributes.get(UrlAttributes.URL_FULL);
-    if (urlFull != null) {
-      if (httpPath == null) {
-        httpPath = urlFull;
-      }
+    if (urlFull != null && httpPath == null) {
+      httpPath = UrlUtils.parse(urlFull).getUrl();
     }
 
     final @Nullable String urlPath = attributes.get(UrlAttributes.URL_PATH);
diff --git a/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-core/src/test/kotlin/SpanDescriptionExtractorTest.kt b/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-core/src/test/kotlin/SpanDescriptionExtractorTest.kt
index a43afb849e..04de1e9707 100644
--- a/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-core/src/test/kotlin/SpanDescriptionExtractorTest.kt
+++ b/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-core/src/test/kotlin/SpanDescriptionExtractorTest.kt
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class SpanDescriptionExtractorTest {
     val info = whenExtractingSpanInfo()
 
     assertEquals("http.server", info.op)
-    assertEquals("GET https://sentry.io/some/path?q=1#top", info.description)
+    assertEquals("GET https://sentry.io/some/path", info.description)
     assertEquals(TransactionNameSource.URL, info.transactionNameSource)
   }