diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 56a2086b3b..f539d9c805 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ### Fixes
 
 - Calling Sentry.init and specifying contextTags now has an effect on the Logback SentryAppender ([#2052](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/2052))
+- Calling Sentry.init and specifying contextTags now has an effect on the Log4j SentryAppender ([#2054](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/2054))
 
 ## 6.0.0-beta.4
 
diff --git a/sentry-log4j2/src/main/java/io/sentry/log4j2/SentryAppender.java b/sentry-log4j2/src/main/java/io/sentry/log4j2/SentryAppender.java
index b9a6b2c693..e35a24708c 100644
--- a/sentry-log4j2/src/main/java/io/sentry/log4j2/SentryAppender.java
+++ b/sentry-log4j2/src/main/java/io/sentry/log4j2/SentryAppender.java
@@ -187,6 +187,9 @@ public void append(final @NotNull LogEvent eventObject) {
         CollectionUtils.filterMapEntries(
             loggingEvent.getContextData().toMap(), entry -> entry.getValue() != null);
     if (!contextData.isEmpty()) {
+      // get tags from HubAdapter options to allow getting the correct tags if Sentry has been
+      // initialized somewhere else
+      final List<String> contextTags = hub.getOptions().getContextTags();
       if (contextTags != null && !contextTags.isEmpty()) {
         for (final String contextTag : contextTags) {
           // if mdc tag is listed in SentryOptions, apply as event tag