diff --git a/dev-packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/node-nestjs/tests/transactions.test.ts b/dev-packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/node-nestjs/tests/transactions.test.ts
index 2739dbe20b07..9268e777b502 100644
--- a/dev-packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/node-nestjs/tests/transactions.test.ts
+++ b/dev-packages/e2e-tests/test-applications/node-nestjs/tests/transactions.test.ts
@@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ test('Sends an API route transaction', async ({ baseURL }) => {
           span_id: expect.any(String),
           trace_id: expect.any(String),
           data: {
-            'sentry.origin': 'manual',
+            'sentry.origin': 'auto.http.otel.nestjs',
+            'sentry.op': 'handler.nestjs',
             component: '@nestjs/core',
             'nestjs.version': expect.any(String),
             'nestjs.type': 'handler',
@@ -119,7 +120,8 @@ test('Sends an API route transaction', async ({ baseURL }) => {
           start_timestamp: expect.any(Number),
           timestamp: expect.any(Number),
           status: 'ok',
-          origin: 'manual',
+          origin: 'auto.http.otel.nestjs',
+          op: 'handler.nestjs',
         },
       ]),
       transaction: 'GET /test-transaction',
diff --git a/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/connect.ts b/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/connect.ts
index 7dfecef3a482..60bb9d74448a 100644
--- a/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/connect.ts
+++ b/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/connect.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ export const setupConnectErrorHandler = (app: ConnectApp): void => {
 
   // Sadly, ConnectInstrumentation has no requestHook, so we need to add the attributes here
   // We register this hook in this method, because if we register it in the integration `setup`,
-  // it would always run even for users that are not even using fastify
+  // it would always run even for users that are not even using connect
   const client = getClient();
   if (client) {
     client.on('spanStart', span => {
diff --git a/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/nest.ts b/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/nest.ts
index c1a4b9e7a3c0..cc66e745da1d 100644
--- a/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/nest.ts
+++ b/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/nest.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
 import { NestInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-nestjs-core';
-import { captureException, defineIntegration, getDefaultIsolationScope, getIsolationScope } from '@sentry/core';
+import {
+  SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_OP,
+  SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_ORIGIN,
+  captureException,
+  defineIntegration,
+  getClient,
+  getDefaultIsolationScope,
+  getIsolationScope,
+  spanToJSON,
+} from '@sentry/core';
 import { addOpenTelemetryInstrumentation } from '@sentry/opentelemetry';
-import type { IntegrationFn } from '@sentry/types';
+import type { IntegrationFn, Span } from '@sentry/types';
 import { logger } from '@sentry/utils';
 
 interface MinimalNestJsExecutionContext {
@@ -52,6 +61,16 @@ export const nestIntegration = defineIntegration(_nestIntegration);
  * Setup an error handler for Nest.
  */
 export function setupNestErrorHandler(app: MinimalNestJsApp, baseFilter: NestJsErrorFilter): void {
+  // Sadly, NestInstrumentation has no requestHook, so we need to add the attributes here
+  // We register this hook in this method, because if we register it in the integration `setup`,
+  // it would always run even for users that are not even using Nest.js
+  const client = getClient();
+  if (client) {
+    client.on('spanStart', span => {
+      addNestSpanAttributes(span);
+    });
+  }
+
   app.useGlobalInterceptors({
     intercept(context, next) {
       if (getIsolationScope() === getDefaultIsolationScope()) {
@@ -86,3 +105,20 @@ export function setupNestErrorHandler(app: MinimalNestJsApp, baseFilter: NestJsE
 
   app.useGlobalFilters(wrappedFilter);
 }
+
+function addNestSpanAttributes(span: Span): void {
+  const attributes = spanToJSON(span).data || {};
+
+  // this is one of: app_creation, request_context, handler
+  const type = attributes['nestjs.type'];
+
+  // If this is already set, or we have no nest.js span, no need to process again...
+  if (attributes[SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_OP] || !type) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  span.setAttributes({
+    [SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_ORIGIN]: 'auto.http.otel.nestjs',
+    [SEMANTIC_ATTRIBUTE_SENTRY_OP]: `${type}.nestjs`,
+  });
+}