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 b66555d68c9..8b7d71ea5f4 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
@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ public final class SpanDescriptionExtractor {
       final @NotNull SpanData otelSpan, final @Nullable IOtelSpanWrapper sentrySpan) {
     final @NotNull Attributes attributes = otelSpan.getAttributes();
 
-    final @Nullable String httpMethod = attributes.get(HttpAttributes.HTTP_REQUEST_METHOD);
+    final @Nullable String httpMethod =
+      attributes.get(HttpAttributes.HTTP_REQUEST_METHOD) != null
+        ? attributes.get(HttpAttributes.HTTP_REQUEST_METHOD)
+        : attributes.get(io.opentelemetry.semconv.SemanticAttributes.HTTP_METHOD);
+
     if (httpMethod != null) {
       return descriptionForHttpMethod(otelSpan, httpMethod);
     }