diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d1224249..7688c7a6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 ### Changed
 
 - Update DK Catalog platform-flow-id
+- Lazy-load the Sentry SDK via dynamic import so it's only ever downloaded on admin pages, keeping it out of the storefront bundle
 
 ## [8.136.2] - 2026-03-02
 
diff --git a/react/components/ErrorBoundary.tsx b/react/components/ErrorBoundary.tsx
index 35a22f2f..ef858406 100644
--- a/react/components/ErrorBoundary.tsx
+++ b/react/components/ErrorBoundary.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import ErrorDisplay from './ExtensionPoint/ErrorDisplay'
 import { useRuntime } from './RenderContext'
 import type { RenderContext } from './RenderContext'
 import { isAdmin } from '../utils/isAdmin'
-import { captureException } from '@sentry/react'
+import { captureException } from '../o11y/sentry'
 import { CustomAdminTags } from '../o11y/types'
 import ErrorPage from './ErrorPage/ErrorPage'
 
diff --git a/react/error.tsx b/react/error.tsx
index 07671406..542f854e 100644
--- a/react/error.tsx
+++ b/react/error.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* global module */
 import React, { Component } from 'react'
-import { captureException } from '@sentry/react'
+import { captureException } from './o11y/sentry'
 
 require('myvtex-sse')
 
diff --git a/react/o11y/instrument.ts b/react/o11y/instrument.ts
index 2f78faa4..b2e45377 100644
--- a/react/o11y/instrument.ts
+++ b/react/o11y/instrument.ts
@@ -1,60 +1,13 @@
-import * as Sentry from '@sentry/react'
-import { isAdmin } from '../utils/isAdmin'
-import { getIOContext } from './ctx'
-
-if (isAdmin()) {
-  Sentry.init({
-    dsn:
-      'https://2fac72ea180d48ae9bf1dbb3104b4000@o191317.ingest.us.sentry.io/1292015',
-    integrations: [Sentry.replayIntegration()],
-
-    // Set tracesSampleRate to 0.1 to capture 10%
-    // of transactions for tracing.
-    tracesSampleRate: 0.1,
-
-    // Set `tracePropagationTargets` to control for which URLs trace propagation should be enabled
-    tracePropagationTargets: [
-      /^\//,
-      /^(https?:\/\/)?([a-z0-9]+[.])*myvtex\.com/,
-    ],
-
-    // Capture Replay for 0% of all sessions,
-    // plus for 50% of sessions with an error
-    replaysSessionSampleRate: 0,
-    replaysOnErrorSampleRate: 0.5,
-
-    beforeSend: (event) => {
-      const ctx = getIOContext()
-
-      // Must check with false, otherwise default null's
-      // value leads to data mistakenly not sent to Sentry,
-      // which can occur if somehow we can't infer whether
-      // the apps are running under a production or development
-      // environment.
-      if (ctx.admin_production === false) {
-        const params = new URL(document?.location?.toString())?.searchParams
-        const shouldLog = params.get('forceLogs')
-
-        if (shouldLog === 'true') {
-          return makeEventWithCtx(event, ctx)
-        }
-
-        return null
-      }
-
-      return makeEventWithCtx(event, ctx)
-    },
-  })
-}
-
-function makeEventWithCtx(event: any, ctx: any) {
-  const eventWithCtx = {
-    ...event,
-    tags: {
-      ...event?.tags,
-      ...ctx,
-    },
-  }
-
-  return eventWithCtx
-}
+// Sentry is only ever used in the admin, and only to report errors. Loading
+// it lazily (dynamic import) keeps it out of the storefront's main bundle
+// entirely, since bundlers can only tree-shake/split code that isn't
+// statically imported.
+//
+// This file intentionally does NOT eagerly call `initSentry()`: doing so
+// would make every admin page pay the extra `sentry.js` chunk
+// request/parse/exec cost on every session, even when no error ever
+// occurs, which defeats the "on demand" goal. Instead, the SDK is loaded
+// and initialized lazily, the first time `captureException`/`initSentry`
+// is actually invoked from an admin-gated error path (see
+// react/error.tsx and react/components/ErrorBoundary.tsx).
+export {}
diff --git a/react/o11y/sentry.test.ts b/react/o11y/sentry.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8d0c1f73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/react/o11y/sentry.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+jest.mock('../utils/isAdmin')
+jest.mock('./ctx')
+
+const mockInit = jest.fn()
+const mockCaptureException = jest.fn()
+const mockReplayIntegration = jest.fn(() => ({}))
+
+// Controls whether the mocked dynamic import of '@sentry/react' rejects
+// (simulating a ChunkLoadError) or resolves. Must be prefixed with "mock"
+// so babel-plugin-jest-hoist allows referencing it from the jest.mock
+// factory below.
+let mockShouldFailImport = false
+
+jest.mock('@sentry/react', () => {
+  if (mockShouldFailImport) {
+    throw new Error('ChunkLoadError: Loading chunk sentry failed.')
+  }
+
+  return {
+    init: mockInit,
+    captureException: mockCaptureException,
+    replayIntegration: mockReplayIntegration,
+  }
+})
+
+/**
+ * `./sentry` keeps module-scoped singleton state (the cached import promise
+ * and the "initialized" flag), which is exactly the state under test here
+ * (the reject/retry behavior). So each test gets a fully fresh module
+ * registry via `jest.resetModules()`, and re-requires everything (including
+ * the mocked `isAdmin`/`ctx`) *after* resetting, instead of importing them
+ * once at the top of the file — otherwise the `isAdmin`/`ctx` references
+ * held by the test would become stale copies, decoupled from the ones
+ * `./sentry` actually calls after the reset.
+ */
+function setup({ isAdmin }: { isAdmin: boolean }) {
+  jest.resetModules()
+  mockShouldFailImport = false
+  mockInit.mockClear()
+  mockCaptureException.mockClear()
+
+  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
+  const { isAdmin: mockIsAdmin } = require('../utils/isAdmin')
+  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
+  const { getIOContext: mockGetIOContext } = require('./ctx')
+
+  mockIsAdmin.mockReturnValue(isAdmin)
+  mockGetIOContext.mockReturnValue({ admin_production: true })
+
+  return require('./sentry')
+}
+
+describe('sentry', () => {
+  test('captureException no-ops outside admin and never loads the SDK', async () => {
+    const { captureException } = setup({ isAdmin: false })
+
+    const result = await captureException(new Error('boom'))
+
+    expect(result).toBeUndefined()
+    expect(mockInit).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+    expect(mockCaptureException).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+
+  test('captureException lazily loads and initializes Sentry once, then reports', async () => {
+    const { captureException } = setup({ isAdmin: true })
+
+    await captureException(new Error('first'))
+    await captureException(new Error('second'))
+
+    expect(mockInit).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+    expect(mockCaptureException).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+    expect(mockCaptureException).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(
+      1,
+      expect.objectContaining({ message: 'first' }),
+      undefined
+    )
+  })
+
+  test('a chunk-load failure never throws/rejects back at the caller (fire-and-forget safe)', async () => {
+    const { captureException } = setup({ isAdmin: true })
+
+    mockShouldFailImport = true
+
+    await expect(captureException(new Error('boom'))).resolves.toBeUndefined()
+    expect(mockCaptureException).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+
+  test('after a chunk-load failure, a later call retries instead of reusing the dead promise', async () => {
+    const { captureException } = setup({ isAdmin: true })
+
+    // First call fails to load the chunk.
+    mockShouldFailImport = true
+    await captureException(new Error('boom'))
+    expect(mockCaptureException).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+
+    // The chunk becomes available (e.g. network recovers) — a later call
+    // must not keep reusing the rejected promise from the failed attempt.
+    mockShouldFailImport = false
+    await captureException(new Error('recovered'))
+
+    expect(mockInit).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+    expect(mockCaptureException).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+    expect(mockCaptureException).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.objectContaining({ message: 'recovered' }),
+      undefined
+    )
+  })
+
+  test('initSentry no-ops outside admin', async () => {
+    const { initSentry } = setup({ isAdmin: false })
+
+    await initSentry()
+
+    expect(mockInit).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+
+  test('initSentry loads and initializes Sentry when in admin', async () => {
+    const { initSentry } = setup({ isAdmin: true })
+
+    await initSentry()
+
+    expect(mockInit).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+  })
+
+  test('a failure in initSentry is swallowed, never rejects, and a later call can retry', async () => {
+    const { initSentry } = setup({ isAdmin: true })
+
+    mockShouldFailImport = true
+    await expect(initSentry()).resolves.toBeUndefined()
+    expect(mockInit).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+
+    mockShouldFailImport = false
+    await initSentry()
+    expect(mockInit).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/react/o11y/sentry.ts b/react/o11y/sentry.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f12af7d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/react/o11y/sentry.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+import { isAdmin } from '../utils/isAdmin'
+import { getIOContext } from './ctx'
+
+type SentryModule = typeof import('@sentry/react')
+
+let sentryModulePromise: Promise<SentryModule> | null = null
+let initialized = false
+
+function makeEventWithCtx(event: any, ctx: any) {
+  const eventWithCtx = {
+    ...event,
+    tags: {
+      ...event?.tags,
+      ...ctx,
+    },
+  }
+
+  return eventWithCtx
+}
+
+/**
+ * Lazily loads the Sentry SDK. It is only ever invoked from admin-gated
+ * call sites (see isAdmin() checks in error.tsx/ErrorBoundary.tsx), so
+ * storefront (non-admin) bundles never pay for the dynamic chunk.
+ *
+ * If the dynamic import fails (network blip, ad-blocker filtering
+ * `sentry.js`, a chunk hash mismatch right after a deploy, etc.) the
+ * cached promise is cleared so the *next* call gets a fresh retry instead
+ * of permanently reusing a rejected promise for the rest of the page
+ * session.
+ */
+function loadSentry(): Promise<SentryModule> {
+  if (!sentryModulePromise) {
+    sentryModulePromise = import(
+      /* webpackChunkName: "sentry" */ '@sentry/react'
+    ).catch((error) => {
+      sentryModulePromise = null
+      throw error
+    })
+  }
+
+  return sentryModulePromise
+}
+
+async function ensureInitialized(Sentry: SentryModule) {
+  if (initialized) return
+  initialized = true
+
+  try {
+    doInit(Sentry)
+  } catch (error) {
+    // Allow a later call to retry `Sentry.init` instead of permanently
+    // treating the SDK as initialized when it actually threw.
+    initialized = false
+    throw error
+  }
+}
+
+function doInit(Sentry: SentryModule) {
+  Sentry.init({
+    dsn:
+      'https://2fac72ea180d48ae9bf1dbb3104b4000@o191317.ingest.us.sentry.io/1292015',
+    integrations: [Sentry.replayIntegration()],
+
+    // Set tracesSampleRate to 0.1 to capture 10%
+    // of transactions for tracing.
+    tracesSampleRate: 0.1,
+
+    // Set `tracePropagationTargets` to control for which URLs trace propagation should be enabled
+    tracePropagationTargets: [
+      /^\//,
+      /^(https?:\/\/)?([a-z0-9]+[.])*myvtex\.com/,
+    ],
+
+    // Capture Replay for 0% of all sessions,
+    // plus for 50% of sessions with an error
+    replaysSessionSampleRate: 0,
+    replaysOnErrorSampleRate: 0.5,
+
+    beforeSend: (event) => {
+      const ctx = getIOContext()
+
+      // Must check with false, otherwise default null's
+      // value leads to data mistakenly not sent to Sentry,
+      // which can occur if somehow we can't infer whether
+      // the apps are running under a production or development
+      // environment.
+      if (ctx.admin_production === false) {
+        const params = new URL(document?.location?.toString())?.searchParams
+        const shouldLog = params.get('forceLogs')
+
+        if (shouldLog === 'true') {
+          return makeEventWithCtx(event, ctx)
+        }
+
+        return null
+      }
+
+      return makeEventWithCtx(event, ctx)
+    },
+  })
+}
+
+/**
+ * Ensures Sentry is loaded and initialized. Safe to call multiple times,
+ * and safe to call without awaiting/catching: failures (e.g. the chunk
+ * failing to load) are caught here and logged instead of becoming an
+ * unhandled promise rejection. No-ops outside admin, so it should only be
+ * called from admin-gated code.
+ */
+export async function initSentry() {
+  if (!isAdmin()) return
+
+  try {
+    const Sentry = await loadSentry()
+    await ensureInitialized(Sentry)
+  } catch (error) {
+    // A failure to load/initialize the SDK must never surface as an
+    // unhandled rejection on admin pages.
+    // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
+    console.error('[render-runtime] failed to load/init Sentry', error)
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Drop-in async replacement for `captureException` from '@sentry/react'.
+ * Lazily loads + initializes the SDK on first use. Safe to call without
+ * awaiting/catching (see `initSentry` above for the failure-handling
+ * rationale): a failure to load/init/report never throws back at the
+ * caller, so it can never mask or interrupt the caller's own error
+ * handling.
+ */
+export async function captureException(exception: any, captureContext?: any) {
+  if (!isAdmin()) return
+
+  try {
+    const Sentry = await loadSentry()
+    await ensureInitialized(Sentry)
+
+    return Sentry.captureException(exception, captureContext)
+  } catch (error) {
+    // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
+    console.error(
+      '[render-runtime] failed to report exception to Sentry',
+      error
+    )
+
+    return undefined
+  }
+}