diff --git a/packages/core/src/asyncContext/types.ts b/packages/core/src/asyncContext/types.ts
index bd69c8e63e78..a99f9eaae567 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/asyncContext/types.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/asyncContext/types.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import type { Scope } from '@sentry/types';
+import { getTraceData } from '../utils/traceData';
 import type {
   startInactiveSpan,
   startSpan,
@@ -64,4 +65,7 @@ export interface AsyncContextStrategy {
 
   /** Suppress tracing in the given callback, ensuring no spans are generated inside of it.  */
   suppressTracing?: typeof suppressTracing;
+
+  /** get trace data as serialized string values for propagation via `sentry-trace` and `baggage` */
+  getTraceData?: typeof getTraceData;
 }
diff --git a/packages/core/src/index.ts b/packages/core/src/index.ts
index 73295f7df64c..79299f8092d6 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/index.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ export type { OfflineStore, OfflineTransportOptions } from './transports/offline
 export type { ServerRuntimeClientOptions } from './server-runtime-client';
 export type { RequestDataIntegrationOptions } from './integrations/requestdata';
 export type { IntegrationIndex } from './integration';
+export type { TraceData } from './utils/traceData';
 
 export * from './tracing';
 export * from './semanticAttributes';
diff --git a/packages/core/src/utils/traceData.ts b/packages/core/src/utils/traceData.ts
index abc05f449365..854bdd41dd28 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/utils/traceData.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/utils/traceData.ts
@@ -5,11 +5,13 @@ import {
   generateSentryTraceHeader,
   logger,
 } from '@sentry/utils';
+import { getAsyncContextStrategy } from '../asyncContext';
+import { getMainCarrier } from '../carrier';
 import { getClient, getCurrentScope } from '../currentScopes';
 import { getDynamicSamplingContextFromClient, getDynamicSamplingContextFromSpan } from '../tracing';
 import { getActiveSpan, getRootSpan, spanToTraceHeader } from './spanUtils';
 
-type TraceData = {
+export type TraceData = {
   'sentry-trace'?: string;
   baggage?: string;
 };
@@ -30,6 +32,12 @@ type TraceData = {
  * or meta tag name.
  */
 export function getTraceData(span?: Span, scope?: Scope, client?: Client): TraceData {
+  const carrier = getMainCarrier();
+  const acs = getAsyncContextStrategy(carrier);
+  if (acs.getTraceData) {
+    return acs.getTraceData(span, scope, client);
+  }
+
   const clientToUse = client || getClient();
   const scopeToUse = scope || getCurrentScope();
   const spanToUse = span || getActiveSpan();
diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry/src/asyncContextStrategy.ts b/packages/opentelemetry/src/asyncContextStrategy.ts
index 69878d27b252..7d81a76d5d80 100644
--- a/packages/opentelemetry/src/asyncContextStrategy.ts
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry/src/asyncContextStrategy.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import * as api from '@opentelemetry/api';
 import { getDefaultCurrentScope, getDefaultIsolationScope, setAsyncContextStrategy } from '@sentry/core';
-import type { withActiveSpan as defaultWithActiveSpan } from '@sentry/core';
+import type { getTraceData as defaultGetTraceData, withActiveSpan as defaultWithActiveSpan } from '@sentry/core';
 import type { Scope } from '@sentry/types';
 
 import {
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { startInactiveSpan, startSpan, startSpanManual, withActiveSpan } from '.
 import type { CurrentScopes } from './types';
 import { getScopesFromContext } from './utils/contextData';
 import { getActiveSpan } from './utils/getActiveSpan';
+import { getTraceData } from './utils/getTraceData';
 import { suppressTracing } from './utils/suppressTracing';
 
 /**
@@ -102,9 +103,10 @@ export function setOpenTelemetryContextAsyncContextStrategy(): void {
     startSpanManual,
     startInactiveSpan,
     getActiveSpan,
+    suppressTracing,
     // The types here don't fully align, because our own `Span` type is narrower
     // than the OTEL one - but this is OK for here, as we now we'll only have OTEL spans passed around
     withActiveSpan: withActiveSpan as typeof defaultWithActiveSpan,
-    suppressTracing: suppressTracing,
+    getTraceData: getTraceData as typeof defaultGetTraceData,
   });
 }