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 3af3d8f96f0..af6d1b74e74 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
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import io.opentelemetry.semconv.incubating.MessagingIncubatingAttributes;
 import io.sentry.SentryOptions;
 import io.sentry.protocol.TransactionNameSource;
+import io.sentry.util.UrlUtils;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.ApiStatus;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
@@ -71,16 +72,14 @@ private OtelSpanInfo descriptionForHttpMethod(
     final @Nullable String httpTarget = attributes.get(HttpIncubatingAttributes.HTTP_TARGET);
     final @Nullable String httpRoute = attributes.get(HttpAttributes.HTTP_ROUTE);
     @Nullable String httpPath = httpRoute;
-    if (httpPath == null) {
-      httpPath = httpTarget;
+    if (httpPath == null && httpTarget != null) {
+      httpPath = UrlUtils.parse(httpTarget).getUrl();
     }
     final @NotNull String op = opBuilder.toString();
 
     final @Nullable String urlFull = attributes.get(UrlAttributes.URL_FULL);
-    if (urlFull != null) {
-      if (httpPath == null) {
-        httpPath = urlFull;
-      }
+    if (urlFull != null && httpPath == null) {
+      httpPath = UrlUtils.parse(urlFull).getUrl();
     }
 
     final @Nullable String urlPath = attributes.get(UrlAttributes.URL_PATH);
diff --git a/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-core/src/test/kotlin/SpanDescriptionExtractorTest.kt b/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-core/src/test/kotlin/SpanDescriptionExtractorTest.kt
index a43afb849e6..5100ff715bb 100644
--- a/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-core/src/test/kotlin/SpanDescriptionExtractorTest.kt
+++ b/sentry-opentelemetry/sentry-opentelemetry-core/src/test/kotlin/SpanDescriptionExtractorTest.kt
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class SpanDescriptionExtractorTest {
     val info = whenExtractingSpanInfo()
 
     assertEquals("http.server", info.op)
-    assertEquals("GET https://sentry.io/some/path?q=1#top", info.description)
+    assertEquals("GET https://sentry.io/some/path", info.description)
     assertEquals(TransactionNameSource.URL, info.transactionNameSource)
   }
 
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ class SpanDescriptionExtractorTest {
   }
 
   @Test
-  fun `uses HTTP_TARGET for description`() {
+  fun `uses HTTP_ROUTE over HTTP_TARGET for description`() {
     givenSpanKind(SpanKind.SERVER)
     givenAttributes(
       mapOf(
@@ -150,6 +150,23 @@ class SpanDescriptionExtractorTest {
     assertEquals(TransactionNameSource.ROUTE, info.transactionNameSource)
   }
 
+  @Test
+  fun `removes query and fragment from HTTP_TARGET description`() {
+    givenSpanKind(SpanKind.SERVER)
+    givenAttributes(
+      mapOf(
+        HttpAttributes.HTTP_REQUEST_METHOD to "GET",
+        HttpIncubatingAttributes.HTTP_TARGET to "/checkout?page=1&token=secret#details",
+      )
+    )
+
+    val info = whenExtractingSpanInfo()
+
+    assertEquals("http.server", info.op)
+    assertEquals("GET /checkout", info.description)
+    assertEquals(TransactionNameSource.URL, info.transactionNameSource)
+  }
+
   @Test
   fun `uses span name as description fallback`() {
     givenSpanKind(SpanKind.SERVER)