From 4f0a4c5615682e208fb79b81f2d3e5aa71b0cea6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: s1gr1d <sigrid.huemer@posteo.at>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:03:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] docs(core): Fix docs for `beforeSendSpan`

---
 packages/core/src/types-hoist/options.ts | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/core/src/types-hoist/options.ts b/packages/core/src/types-hoist/options.ts
index 93f9be36ed25..8fd2a5216555 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/types-hoist/options.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/types-hoist/options.ts
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ export interface ClientOptions<TO extends BaseTransportOptions = BaseTransportOp
   beforeSend?: (event: ErrorEvent, hint: EventHint) => PromiseLike<ErrorEvent | null> | ErrorEvent | null;
 
   /**
-   * This function can be defined to modify or entirely drop a child span before it's sent.
+   * This function can be defined to modify a child span before it's sent.
    * Returning `null` will cause this span to be dropped.
    *
    * Note that this function is only called for child spans and not for the root span (formerly known as transaction).
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ export interface ClientOptions<TO extends BaseTransportOptions = BaseTransportOp
    *
    * @param span The span generated by the SDK.
    *
-   * @returns A new span that will be sent or null if the span should not be sent.
+   * @returns A new or modified span that will be sent.
    */
   beforeSendSpan?: (span: SpanJSON) => SpanJSON;
 

From 325a430f4203270bcfb210ba9bafa70ea188292c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sigrid Huemer <32902192+s1gr1d@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:26:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update packages/core/src/types-hoist/options.ts

Co-authored-by: Francesco Gringl-Novy <francesco.novy@sentry.io>
---
 packages/core/src/types-hoist/options.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/core/src/types-hoist/options.ts b/packages/core/src/types-hoist/options.ts
index 8fd2a5216555..4b0010f2b7d7 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/types-hoist/options.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/types-hoist/options.ts
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ export interface ClientOptions<TO extends BaseTransportOptions = BaseTransportOp
    *
    * @param span The span generated by the SDK.
    *
-   * @returns A new or modified span that will be sent.
+   * @returns The modified span payload that will be sent.
    */
   beforeSendSpan?: (span: SpanJSON) => SpanJSON;