diff --git a/sentry_sdk/integrations/asgi.py b/sentry_sdk/integrations/asgi.py
index 07dc2c993b..11b8d1caa7 100644
--- a/sentry_sdk/integrations/asgi.py
+++ b/sentry_sdk/integrations/asgi.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 from sentry_sdk.hub import Hub, _should_send_default_pii
 from sentry_sdk.integrations._wsgi_common import _filter_headers
 from sentry_sdk.utils import ContextVar, event_from_exception, transaction_from_function
+from sentry_sdk.tracing import Span
 
 if MYPY:
     from typing import Dict
@@ -60,21 +61,23 @@ async def _run_app(self, scope, callback):
             hub = Hub(Hub.current)
             with hub:
                 with hub.configure_scope() as sentry_scope:
+                    sentry_scope.clear_breadcrumbs()
                     sentry_scope._name = "asgi"
-                    sentry_scope.transaction = (
-                        scope.get("path") or "unknown asgi request"
-                    )
-
                     processor = functools.partial(
                         self.event_processor, asgi_scope=scope
                     )
                     sentry_scope.add_event_processor(processor)
 
-                try:
-                    await callback()
-                except Exception as exc:
-                    _capture_exception(hub, exc)
-                    raise exc from None
+                span = Span.continue_from_headers(dict(scope["headers"]))
+                span.op = "http.server"
+                span.transaction = "generic ASGI request"
+
+                with hub.start_span(span) as span:
+                    try:
+                        return await callback()
+                    except Exception as exc:
+                        _capture_exception(hub, exc)
+                        raise exc from None
         finally:
             _asgi_middleware_applied.set(False)
 
diff --git a/sentry_sdk/tracing.py b/sentry_sdk/tracing.py
index dbba75a1cf..1fced63001 100644
--- a/sentry_sdk/tracing.py
+++ b/sentry_sdk/tracing.py
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ def from_traceparent(cls, traceparent):
         if traceparent.startswith("00-") and traceparent.endswith("-00"):
             traceparent = traceparent[3:-3]
 
-        match = _traceparent_header_format_re.match(traceparent)
+        match = _traceparent_header_format_re.match(str(traceparent))
         if match is None:
             return None
 
diff --git a/tests/integrations/asgi/test_asgi.py b/tests/integrations/asgi/test_asgi.py
index 8ee2e700b4..3a47eaca32 100644
--- a/tests/integrations/asgi/test_asgi.py
+++ b/tests/integrations/asgi/test_asgi.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def test_sync_request_data(sentry_init, app, capture_events):
     events = capture_events()
 
     client = TestClient(app)
-    response = client.get("/sync-message?foo=bar")
+    response = client.get("/sync-message?foo=bar", headers={"Foo": u"ä"})
 
     assert response.status_code == 200
 
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ def test_sync_request_data(sentry_init, app, capture_events):
         "connection",
         "host",
         "user-agent",
+        "foo",
     }
     assert event["request"]["query_string"] == "foo=bar"
     assert event["request"]["url"].endswith("/sync-message")