diff --git a/env/frontend.env b/env/frontend.env
index 0ca5e8be54..9b7765130c 100644
--- a/env/frontend.env
+++ b/env/frontend.env
@@ -44,11 +44,13 @@ GTM_COOKIES_WIN=${GTM_COOKIES_WIN}
 # OpenTelemetry tracing (server-side only — no NEXT_PUBLIC_ prefix needed)
 # These are read at runtime by the OTEL NodeSDK and injected by Kubernetes for
 # deployed environments. Sampling is disabled locally (0.0); set
-# OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT and OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER_ARG in your K8s/Helm
-# values to enable tracing in staging/production.
+# OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT (or OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT) and
+# OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER_ARG in your K8s/Helm values to enable tracing in
+# staging/production.
 #
 # OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=mit-learn-frontend
 # OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://alloy.monitoring:4318
+# OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT=http://alloy.monitoring:4318/v1/traces
 
 # LOCAL TRACE TESTING (no Grafana Alloy required)
 # Uncomment both lines below to print every completed span as JSON to the
@@ -65,3 +67,7 @@ GTM_COOKIES_WIN=${GTM_COOKIES_WIN}
 #   }
 #
 # OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=console
+
+# One JSON log line per completed server request span (method, route, status,
+# duration) is emitted by default. Set to "false" to disable.
+# NEXT_SERVER_REQUEST_LOGGING=false
diff --git a/frontends/jest-shared-setup.ts b/frontends/jest-shared-setup.ts
index 5fcd380cd4..25ad241a22 100644
--- a/frontends/jest-shared-setup.ts
+++ b/frontends/jest-shared-setup.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_MITX_ONLINE_LEGACY_BASE_URL =
   "http://mitxonline.odl.local:8065"
 process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_ORIGIN = "http://test.learn.odl.local:8062"
 process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_EMBEDLY_KEY = "fake-embedly-key"
+process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_VERSION = "test-version"
 
 // Pulled from the docs - see https://jestjs.io/docs/manual-mocks#mocking-methods-which-are-not-implemented-in-jsdom
 
diff --git a/frontends/main/package.json b/frontends/main/package.json
index 0ab72842a4..acccf5759c 100644
--- a/frontends/main/package.json
+++ b/frontends/main/package.json
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
     "@mui/material-nextjs": "^6.4.3",
     "@opentelemetry/api": "^1.9.1",
     "@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http": "^0.214.0",
+    "@opentelemetry/resources": "^2.6.1",
     "@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base": "^2.6.1",
     "@radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu": "^2.1.16",
     "@radix-ui/react-popover": "^1.1.15",
diff --git a/frontends/main/src/instrumentation-node.ts b/frontends/main/src/instrumentation-node.ts
index e9d16cab74..4170536032 100644
--- a/frontends/main/src/instrumentation-node.ts
+++ b/frontends/main/src/instrumentation-node.ts
@@ -4,15 +4,36 @@
 // the separate sentry.server.config.ts that was generated by the Sentry wizard.
 
 import * as Sentry from "@sentry/nextjs"
+import type { Context, Span } from "@opentelemetry/api"
 import {
   BatchSpanProcessor,
   ConsoleSpanExporter,
   SimpleSpanProcessor,
 } from "@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base"
-import type { SpanProcessor } from "@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base"
+import type { ReadableSpan, SpanProcessor } from "@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base"
+import type { DetectedResourceAttributes } from "@opentelemetry/resources"
 import { OTLPTraceExporter } from "@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http"
+import diagnosticsChannel from "node:diagnostics_channel"
+import type { IncomingMessage, ServerResponse } from "node:http"
+import {
+  applyResourceOverrides,
+  createRequestLogEntry,
+  detectResourceOverrides,
+  hasOtlpEndpointConfig,
+} from "./otel-utils"
 import { parseSampleRate } from "./sentry-utils"
 
+// Inject service.version into OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES so the OTEL SDK's
+// EnvDetector picks it up alongside any other attributes set via env.
+// Simpler than interpolating OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES in ol-infrastructure.
+if (process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_VERSION) {
+  const prefix = `service.version=${encodeURIComponent(process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_VERSION)}`
+  const existing = process.env.OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
+  process.env.OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES = existing
+    ? `${prefix},${existing}`
+    : prefix
+}
+
 /**
  * Build the list of extra span processors injected into Sentry's OTEL provider.
  *
@@ -26,15 +47,112 @@ import { parseSampleRate } from "./sentry-utils"
  * completed spans as JSON to stdout. See env/frontend.env for details.
  */
 function buildSpanProcessors(): SpanProcessor[] {
-  if (process.env.OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT) {
-    // OTLPTraceExporter reads OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT from env and appends
-    // /v1/traces automatically.
-    return [new BatchSpanProcessor(new OTLPTraceExporter())]
+  const processors: SpanProcessor[] = []
+
+  const overrides = detectResourceOverrides()
+  if (Object.keys(overrides).length > 0) {
+    processors.push(new ResourceAttributeOverrideSpanProcessor(overrides))
+  }
+
+  if (hasOtlpEndpointConfig(process.env)) {
+    processors.push(new BatchSpanProcessor(new OTLPTraceExporter()))
+  } else if (process.env.OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER === "console") {
+    processors.push(new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter()))
+  }
+
+  return processors
+}
+
+/**
+ * Apply resource attributes from OTEL_SERVICE_NAME and OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
+ * to every span at end time. Sentry hard-codes service.name to "node" and
+ * ignores OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES on its internal resource, so without this
+ * the spans we ship to Alloy/Tempo would be misattributed.
+ *
+ * See https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/issues/20502
+ */
+class ResourceAttributeOverrideSpanProcessor implements SpanProcessor {
+  private readonly overrides: DetectedResourceAttributes
+
+  constructor(overrides: DetectedResourceAttributes) {
+    this.overrides = overrides
+  }
+
+  onStart(_span: Span, _parentContext: Context): void {
+    // no-op
+  }
+
+  onEnd(span: ReadableSpan): void {
+    applyResourceOverrides(span, this.overrides)
   }
-  if (process.env.OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER === "console") {
-    return [new SimpleSpanProcessor(new ConsoleSpanExporter())]
+
+  shutdown(): Promise<void> {
+    return Promise.resolve()
+  }
+
+  forceFlush(): Promise<void> {
+    return Promise.resolve()
   }
-  return []
+}
+
+declare global {
+  // eslint-disable-next-line no-var
+  var __NEXT_REQUEST_LOGGER_SUBSCRIBED__: boolean | undefined
+}
+
+// Skip Next-internal paths (static chunks, HMR, dev endpoints) and the
+// favicon. These never get OTEL traces (Sentry's HttpInstrumentation already
+// filters them) so they're noise for the OTEL-coverage diagnostic, and in
+// prod they mostly hit the CDN anyway. RSC fetches go to real route paths
+// (e.g. /courses?_rsc=...) and are not filtered.
+const NEXT_INTERNAL_PATH = /^\/(_next\/|__nextjs_|favicon\.ico)/
+
+/**
+ * Subscribe to Node's built-in HTTP server diagnostics channels and emit a
+ * structured JSON log line per completed request. This runs independently of
+ * the OTEL sampler — every request is logged regardless of OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER_ARG
+ * — so the logs can be used as ground truth for verifying OTEL trace coverage.
+ *
+ * Enabled by default; set NEXT_SERVER_REQUEST_LOGGING=false to disable.
+ *
+ * The channels (`http.server.request.start`, `http.server.response.finish`)
+ * are marked Experimental in Node 24 and 25, but are the same surface that
+ * Sentry/OTEL/Datadog subscribe to internally; the API has been stable in
+ * practice for years.
+ *
+ * Guarded against double-subscription via a globalThis flag — instrumentation
+ * hooks can be re-evaluated on dev reloads or worker restarts, and stacked
+ * subscriptions would duplicate every log line.
+ */
+function subscribeRequestLogger(): void {
+  if (globalThis.__NEXT_REQUEST_LOGGER_SUBSCRIBED__) return
+  globalThis.__NEXT_REQUEST_LOGGER_SUBSCRIBED__ = true
+
+  const startTimes = new WeakMap<IncomingMessage, bigint>()
+
+  diagnosticsChannel.subscribe("http.server.request.start", (message) => {
+    const { request } = message as { request: IncomingMessage }
+    startTimes.set(request, process.hrtime.bigint())
+  })
+
+  diagnosticsChannel.subscribe("http.server.response.finish", (message) => {
+    const { request, response } = message as {
+      request: IncomingMessage
+      response: ServerResponse
+    }
+    const start = startTimes.get(request)
+    if (start === undefined) return
+    startTimes.delete(request)
+    if (request.url && NEXT_INTERNAL_PATH.test(request.url)) return
+    const durationMs = Number((process.hrtime.bigint() - start) / 1_000_000n)
+    console.info(
+      JSON.stringify(createRequestLogEntry({ request, response, durationMs })),
+    )
+  })
+}
+
+if (process.env.NEXT_SERVER_REQUEST_LOGGING !== "false") {
+  subscribeRequestLogger()
 }
 
 // OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER_ARG controls the OTEL sampler rate — i.e. what fraction
diff --git a/frontends/main/src/otel-utils.test.ts b/frontends/main/src/otel-utils.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..30ee334e0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontends/main/src/otel-utils.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+import type { IncomingMessage, ServerResponse } from "node:http"
+import type { ReadableSpan } from "@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base"
+import {
+  applyResourceOverrides,
+  createRequestLogEntry,
+  detectResourceOverrides,
+  hasOtlpEndpointConfig,
+} from "./otel-utils"
+
+function makeResource(
+  attributes: ReadableSpan["resource"]["attributes"] = {},
+): ReadableSpan["resource"] {
+  const resource: ReadableSpan["resource"] = {
+    attributes,
+    merge(other) {
+      return other ?? resource
+    },
+    getRawAttributes() {
+      return Object.entries(resource.attributes)
+    },
+  }
+  return resource
+}
+
+const makeReadableSpan = (
+  overrides: Partial<ReadableSpan> = {},
+): ReadableSpan => ({
+  name: "test span",
+  kind: 0,
+  spanContext: () => ({
+    traceId: "trace-id",
+    spanId: "span-id",
+    traceFlags: 1,
+  }),
+  startTime: [0, 0],
+  endTime: [0, 0],
+  status: { code: 0 },
+  attributes: {},
+  links: [],
+  events: [],
+  duration: [0, 0],
+  ended: true,
+  resource: makeResource(),
+  instrumentationScope: { name: "test-scope", version: "1.0.0" },
+  droppedAttributesCount: 0,
+  droppedEventsCount: 0,
+  droppedLinksCount: 0,
+  ...overrides,
+})
+
+describe("createRequestLogEntry", () => {
+  it("builds a log entry from request and response", () => {
+    const request = { method: "GET", url: "/courses" } as IncomingMessage
+    const response = { statusCode: 200 } as ServerResponse
+
+    expect(
+      createRequestLogEntry({ request, response, durationMs: 1250 }),
+    ).toEqual({
+      message: "next_request",
+      method: "GET",
+      route: "/courses",
+      query: null,
+      statusCode: 200,
+      durationMs: 1250,
+      traceId: null,
+      spanId: null,
+      version: "test-version",
+    })
+  })
+
+  it("splits route and query when the URL has a query string", () => {
+    const request = {
+      method: "POST",
+      url: "/api/foo?bar=baz&qux=1",
+    } as IncomingMessage
+    const response = { statusCode: 201 } as ServerResponse
+
+    const entry = createRequestLogEntry({ request, response, durationMs: 5 })
+    expect(entry.route).toBe("/api/foo")
+    expect(entry.query).toBe("bar=baz&qux=1")
+  })
+
+  it("falls back to UNKNOWN when method is missing", () => {
+    const request = { url: "/" } as IncomingMessage
+    const response = { statusCode: 500 } as ServerResponse
+
+    expect(
+      createRequestLogEntry({ request, response, durationMs: 1 }).method,
+    ).toBe("UNKNOWN")
+  })
+})
+
+describe("applyResourceOverrides", () => {
+  it("copies overrides onto the span resource", () => {
+    const span = makeReadableSpan({
+      resource: makeResource({
+        "service.name": "node",
+        "service.namespace": "sentry",
+      }),
+    })
+
+    applyResourceOverrides(span, {
+      "service.name": "learn-nextjs",
+      "deployment.environment.name": "prod",
+    })
+
+    expect(span.resource.attributes["service.name"]).toBe("learn-nextjs")
+    expect(span.resource.attributes["service.namespace"]).toBe("sentry")
+    expect(span.resource.attributes["deployment.environment.name"]).toBe("prod")
+  })
+
+  it("leaves the resource unchanged when overrides is empty", () => {
+    const span = makeReadableSpan({
+      resource: makeResource({ "service.name": "node" }),
+    })
+
+    applyResourceOverrides(span, {})
+
+    expect(span.resource.attributes["service.name"]).toBe("node")
+  })
+
+  it("skips non-string values defensively", () => {
+    const span = makeReadableSpan({
+      resource: makeResource({ "service.name": "node" }),
+    })
+
+    applyResourceOverrides(span, {
+      "service.name": "learn-nextjs",
+      "broken.promise": Promise.resolve("ignored"),
+      "broken.array": ["a", "b"],
+    })
+
+    expect(span.resource.attributes["service.name"]).toBe("learn-nextjs")
+    expect(span.resource.attributes["broken.promise"]).toBeUndefined()
+    expect(span.resource.attributes["broken.array"]).toBeUndefined()
+  })
+})
+
+describe("detectResourceOverrides", () => {
+  const originalEnv = { ...process.env }
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    process.env = { ...originalEnv }
+  })
+
+  it("parses OTEL_SERVICE_NAME and OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES via the SDK", () => {
+    process.env.OTEL_SERVICE_NAME = "app-name"
+    process.env.OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES =
+      "service.namespace=learn,service.version=1.2.3"
+
+    expect(detectResourceOverrides()).toEqual({
+      "service.name": "app-name",
+      "service.namespace": "learn",
+      "service.version": "1.2.3",
+    })
+  })
+
+  it("percent-decodes values per the OTEL spec", () => {
+    process.env.OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES =
+      "deployment.environment.name=us%2Ceast,service.version=1%3D2"
+    delete process.env.OTEL_SERVICE_NAME
+
+    expect(detectResourceOverrides()).toEqual({
+      "deployment.environment.name": "us,east",
+      "service.version": "1=2",
+    })
+  })
+
+  it("returns an empty object when no env vars are set", () => {
+    delete process.env.OTEL_SERVICE_NAME
+    delete process.env.OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
+
+    expect(detectResourceOverrides()).toEqual({})
+  })
+})
+
+describe("hasOtlpEndpointConfig", () => {
+  it("returns true when only OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT is set", () => {
+    expect(
+      hasOtlpEndpointConfig({
+        OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT:
+          "http://alloy.monitoring:4318/v1/traces",
+      }),
+    ).toBe(true)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/frontends/main/src/otel-utils.ts b/frontends/main/src/otel-utils.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7cf3369d2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontends/main/src/otel-utils.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+import { isSpanContextValid, trace } from "@opentelemetry/api"
+import type { IncomingMessage, ServerResponse } from "node:http"
+import type { ReadableSpan } from "@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base"
+import { envDetector } from "@opentelemetry/resources"
+import type { DetectedResourceAttributes } from "@opentelemetry/resources"
+
+export type RequestLogEntry = {
+  message: "next_request"
+  method: string
+  route: string
+  query: string | null
+  statusCode: number
+  durationMs: number
+  traceId: string | null
+  spanId: string | null
+  version: string | null
+}
+
+const APP_VERSION = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_VERSION ?? null
+
+type OtelEnvSubset = Readonly<Record<string, string | undefined>>
+
+function getNonEmptyEnvValue(value: string | undefined): string | undefined {
+  const trimmed = value?.trim()
+  return trimmed ? trimmed : undefined
+}
+
+export function hasOtlpEndpointConfig(env: OtelEnvSubset): boolean {
+  return Boolean(
+    getNonEmptyEnvValue(env.OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT) ||
+      getNonEmptyEnvValue(env.OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT),
+  )
+}
+
+/**
+ * Read OTEL_SERVICE_NAME and OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES from process.env using
+ * the OTEL SDK's spec-compliant parser. Handles percent-decoding, length
+ * checks, and merges OTEL_SERVICE_NAME into service.name.
+ */
+export function detectResourceOverrides(): DetectedResourceAttributes {
+  return envDetector.detect().attributes ?? {}
+}
+
+/**
+ * Build a structured log entry for a finished HTTP request. The traceId/spanId
+ * come from the active OTEL context if one is present — a null traceId in the
+ * log is itself the diagnostic signal that the request was not traced.
+ */
+export function createRequestLogEntry({
+  request,
+  response,
+  durationMs,
+}: {
+  request: IncomingMessage
+  response: ServerResponse
+  durationMs: number
+}): RequestLogEntry {
+  const ctx = trace.getActiveSpan()?.spanContext()
+  const hasTrace = ctx ? isSpanContextValid(ctx) : false
+  // Split the URL into path + query so the path can group cleanly while the
+  // query stays available for filtering (e.g. _rsc=... marks an RSC fetch).
+  const url = request.url ?? ""
+  const queryIdx = url.indexOf("?")
+  const route = queryIdx === -1 ? url : url.slice(0, queryIdx)
+  const query = queryIdx === -1 ? null : url.slice(queryIdx + 1)
+  return {
+    message: "next_request",
+    method: request.method ?? "UNKNOWN",
+    route,
+    query,
+    statusCode: response.statusCode,
+    durationMs,
+    traceId: hasTrace && ctx ? ctx.traceId : null,
+    spanId: hasTrace && ctx ? ctx.spanId : null,
+    version: APP_VERSION,
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Copy detected resource attributes onto a span's resource. Used to work
+ * around Sentry's hardcoded service.name (and friends) — see
+ * https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/issues/20502.
+ *
+ * EnvDetector returns AttributeValue | Promise<AttributeValue> | undefined,
+ * but in practice OTEL_SERVICE_NAME and OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES yield only
+ * strings; non-strings are skipped defensively.
+ */
+export function applyResourceOverrides(
+  span: ReadableSpan,
+  overrides: DetectedResourceAttributes,
+): void {
+  for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(overrides)) {
+    if (typeof value === "string") {
+      span.resource.attributes[key] = value
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index ba59f8d598..7db1909227 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -16400,6 +16400,7 @@ __metadata:
     "@mui/material-nextjs": "npm:^6.4.3"
     "@opentelemetry/api": "npm:^1.9.1"
     "@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http": "npm:^0.214.0"
+    "@opentelemetry/resources": "npm:^2.6.1"
     "@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base": "npm:^2.6.1"
     "@radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu": "npm:^2.1.16"
     "@radix-ui/react-popover": "npm:^1.1.15"