diff --git a/.size-limit.js b/.size-limit.js
index 3b91cb51a3c5..db032dc4a3ac 100644
--- a/.size-limit.js
+++ b/.size-limit.js
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ module.exports = [
       'tls',
     ],
     gzip: true,
-    limit: '160 KB',
+    limit: '180 KB',
   },
 ];
 
diff --git a/packages/nextjs/package.json b/packages/nextjs/package.json
index ca3204c7e942..fccab85ea60c 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/package.json
+++ b/packages/nextjs/package.json
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@opentelemetry/api": "1.7.0",
+    "@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http": "0.48.0",
     "@rollup/plugin-commonjs": "24.0.0",
     "@sentry/core": "8.0.0-beta.2",
     "@sentry/node": "8.0.0-beta.2",
diff --git a/packages/nextjs/src/server/httpIntegration.ts b/packages/nextjs/src/server/httpIntegration.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4fdc615deb92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/nextjs/src/server/httpIntegration.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+import { HttpInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-http';
+import { httpIntegration as originalHttpIntegration } from '@sentry/node';
+import type { IntegrationFn } from '@sentry/types';
+
+/**
+ * Next.js handles incoming requests itself,
+ * but it does not handle outgoing requests.
+ * Today, it is not possible to use the HttpInstrumentation for only outgoing requests -
+ * until https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/4643 is merged & released.
+ * So in the meanwhile, we extend the base HttpInstrumentation to not wrap incoming requests.
+ */
+class CustomNextjsHttpIntegration extends HttpInstrumentation {
+  // Instead of the default behavior, we just don't do any wrapping for incoming requests
+  protected _getPatchIncomingRequestFunction(_component: 'http' | 'https') {
+    return (
+      original: (event: string, ...args: unknown[]) => boolean,
+    ): ((this: unknown, event: string, ...args: unknown[]) => boolean) => {
+      return function incomingRequest(this: unknown, event: string, ...args: unknown[]): boolean {
+        return original.apply(this, [event, ...args]);
+      };
+    };
+  }
+}
+
+interface HttpOptions {
+  /**
+   * Whether breadcrumbs should be recorded for requests.
+   * Defaults to true
+   */
+  breadcrumbs?: boolean;
+
+  /**
+   * Do not capture spans or breadcrumbs for outgoing HTTP requests to URLs where the given callback returns `true`.
+   * This controls both span & breadcrumb creation - spans will be non recording if tracing is disabled.
+   */
+  ignoreOutgoingRequests?: (url: string) => boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The http integration instruments Node's internal http and https modules.
+ * It creates breadcrumbs and spans for outgoing HTTP requests which will be attached to the currently active span.
+ */
+export const httpIntegration = ((options: HttpOptions = {}) => {
+  return originalHttpIntegration({
+    ...options,
+    _instrumentation: CustomNextjsHttpIntegration,
+  });
+}) satisfies IntegrationFn;
diff --git a/packages/nextjs/src/server/index.ts b/packages/nextjs/src/server/index.ts
index 6895f1457727..0251f5782bcb 100644
--- a/packages/nextjs/src/server/index.ts
+++ b/packages/nextjs/src/server/index.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ import { distDirRewriteFramesIntegration } from './distDirRewriteFramesIntegrati
 
 export * from '@sentry/node';
 import type { EventProcessor } from '@sentry/types';
+import { httpIntegration } from './httpIntegration';
+
+export { httpIntegration };
 
 export { captureUnderscoreErrorException } from '../common/_error';
 
@@ -75,6 +78,7 @@ export function init(options: NodeOptions): void {
         // Next.js comes with its own Http instrumentation for OTel which would lead to double spans for route handler requests
         integration.name !== 'Http',
     ),
+    httpIntegration(),
   ];
 
   // This value is injected at build time, based on the output directory specified in the build config. Though a default
diff --git a/packages/node/src/integrations/http.ts b/packages/node/src/integrations/http.ts
index d2d6b2149f9e..ce6916da4dcd 100644
--- a/packages/node/src/integrations/http.ts
+++ b/packages/node/src/integrations/http.ts
@@ -42,18 +42,22 @@ interface HttpOptions {
    * This controls both span & breadcrumb creation - spans will be non recording if tracing is disabled.
    */
   ignoreIncomingRequests?: (url: string) => boolean;
+
+  /** Allows to pass a custom version of HttpInstrumentation. We use this for Next.js. */
+  _instrumentation?: typeof HttpInstrumentation;
 }
 
 const _httpIntegration = ((options: HttpOptions = {}) => {
   const _breadcrumbs = typeof options.breadcrumbs === 'undefined' ? true : options.breadcrumbs;
   const _ignoreOutgoingRequests = options.ignoreOutgoingRequests;
   const _ignoreIncomingRequests = options.ignoreIncomingRequests;
+  const _InstrumentationClass = options._instrumentation || HttpInstrumentation;
 
   return {
     name: 'Http',
     setupOnce() {
       addOpenTelemetryInstrumentation(
-        new HttpInstrumentation({
+        new _InstrumentationClass({
           ignoreOutgoingRequestHook: request => {
             const url = getRequestUrl(request);