diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/DatabaseClientImpl.java b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/DatabaseClientImpl.java
index 40dbd710bd..aafa66d16f 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/DatabaseClientImpl.java
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/DatabaseClientImpl.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class DatabaseClientImpl implements DatabaseClient {
   private static final String READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION = "CloudSpanner.ReadOnlyTransaction";
   private static final String PARTITION_DML_TRANSACTION = "CloudSpanner.PartitionDMLTransaction";
   private final TraceWrapper tracer;
-  private Attributes commonAttributes;
+  private final Attributes databaseAttributes;
   @VisibleForTesting final String clientId;
   @VisibleForTesting final SessionPool pool;
   @VisibleForTesting final MultiplexedSessionDatabaseClient multiplexedSessionDatabaseClient;
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ class DatabaseClientImpl implements DatabaseClient {
       boolean useMultiplexedSessionPartitionedOps,
       TraceWrapper tracer,
       boolean useMultiplexedSessionForRW,
-      Attributes commonAttributes) {
+      Attributes databaseAttributes) {
     this.clientId = clientId;
     this.pool = pool;
     this.useMultiplexedSessionBlindWrite = useMultiplexedSessionBlindWrite;
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ class DatabaseClientImpl implements DatabaseClient {
     this.useMultiplexedSessionPartitionedOps = useMultiplexedSessionPartitionedOps;
     this.tracer = tracer;
     this.useMultiplexedSessionForRW = useMultiplexedSessionForRW;
-    this.commonAttributes = commonAttributes;
+    this.databaseAttributes = databaseAttributes;
 
     this.clientIdToOrdinalMap = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
     this.dbId = this.dbIdFromClientId(this.clientId);
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ public Timestamp write(final Iterable<Mutation> mutations) throws SpannerExcepti
   public CommitResponse writeWithOptions(
       final Iterable<Mutation> mutations, final TransactionOption... options)
       throws SpannerException {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes, options);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes, options);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       if (canUseMultiplexedSessionsForRW() && getMultiplexedSessionDatabaseClient() != null) {
         return getMultiplexedSessionDatabaseClient().writeWithOptions(mutations, options);
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ public Timestamp writeAtLeastOnce(final Iterable<Mutation> mutations) throws Spa
   public CommitResponse writeAtLeastOnceWithOptions(
       final Iterable<Mutation> mutations, final TransactionOption... options)
       throws SpannerException {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes, options);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes, options);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       if (useMultiplexedSessionBlindWrite && getMultiplexedSessionDatabaseClient() != null) {
         return getMultiplexedSessionDatabaseClient()
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ int getNthRequest() {
   public ServerStream<BatchWriteResponse> batchWriteAtLeastOnce(
       final Iterable<MutationGroup> mutationGroups, final TransactionOption... options)
       throws SpannerException {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes, options);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes, options);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       if (canUseMultiplexedSessionsForRW() && getMultiplexedSessionDatabaseClient() != null) {
         return getMultiplexedSessionDatabaseClient().batchWriteAtLeastOnce(mutationGroups, options);
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ public ServerStream<BatchWriteResponse> batchWriteAtLeastOnce(
 
   @Override
   public ReadContext singleUse() {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       return getMultiplexedSession().singleUse();
     } catch (RuntimeException e) {
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ public ReadContext singleUse() {
 
   @Override
   public ReadContext singleUse(TimestampBound bound) {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       return getMultiplexedSession().singleUse(bound);
     } catch (RuntimeException e) {
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ public ReadContext singleUse(TimestampBound bound) {
 
   @Override
   public ReadOnlyTransaction singleUseReadOnlyTransaction() {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       return getMultiplexedSession().singleUseReadOnlyTransaction();
     } catch (RuntimeException e) {
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ public ReadOnlyTransaction singleUseReadOnlyTransaction() {
 
   @Override
   public ReadOnlyTransaction singleUseReadOnlyTransaction(TimestampBound bound) {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       return getMultiplexedSession().singleUseReadOnlyTransaction(bound);
     } catch (RuntimeException e) {
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ public ReadOnlyTransaction singleUseReadOnlyTransaction(TimestampBound bound) {
 
   @Override
   public ReadOnlyTransaction readOnlyTransaction() {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       return getMultiplexedSession().readOnlyTransaction();
     } catch (RuntimeException e) {
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ public ReadOnlyTransaction readOnlyTransaction() {
 
   @Override
   public ReadOnlyTransaction readOnlyTransaction(TimestampBound bound) {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_ONLY_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       return getMultiplexedSession().readOnlyTransaction(bound);
     } catch (RuntimeException e) {
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ public ReadOnlyTransaction readOnlyTransaction(TimestampBound bound) {
 
   @Override
   public TransactionRunner readWriteTransaction(TransactionOption... options) {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes, options);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes, options);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       return getMultiplexedSessionForRW().readWriteTransaction(options);
     } catch (RuntimeException e) {
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ public TransactionRunner readWriteTransaction(TransactionOption... options) {
 
   @Override
   public TransactionManager transactionManager(TransactionOption... options) {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes, options);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes, options);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       return getMultiplexedSessionForRW().transactionManager(options);
     } catch (RuntimeException e) {
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ public TransactionManager transactionManager(TransactionOption... options) {
 
   @Override
   public AsyncRunner runAsync(TransactionOption... options) {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes, options);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes, options);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       return getMultiplexedSessionForRW().runAsync(options);
     } catch (RuntimeException e) {
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ public AsyncRunner runAsync(TransactionOption... options) {
 
   @Override
   public AsyncTransactionManager transactionManagerAsync(TransactionOption... options) {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes, options);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(READ_WRITE_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes, options);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       return getMultiplexedSessionForRW().transactionManagerAsync(options);
     } catch (RuntimeException e) {
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ private TransactionOption[] withReqId(
 
   private long executePartitionedUpdateWithPooledSession(
       final Statement stmt, final UpdateOption... options) {
-    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(PARTITION_DML_TRANSACTION, commonAttributes);
+    ISpan span = tracer.spanBuilder(PARTITION_DML_TRANSACTION, databaseAttributes);
     try (IScope s = tracer.withSpan(span)) {
       return runWithSessionRetry(
           (session, reqId) -> {
diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/SessionClient.java b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/SessionClient.java
index 20c86bdf25..6592eb7499 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/SessionClient.java
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/SessionClient.java
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ public void run() {
       List<SessionImpl> sessions;
       int remainingSessionsToCreate = sessionCount;
       ISpan span =
-          spanner.getTracer().spanBuilder(SpannerImpl.BATCH_CREATE_SESSIONS, commonAttributes);
+          spanner.getTracer().spanBuilder(SpannerImpl.BATCH_CREATE_SESSIONS, databaseAttributes);
       try (IScope s = spanner.getTracer().withSpan(span)) {
         spanner
             .getTracer()
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ interface SessionConsumer {
   private final ExecutorFactory<ScheduledExecutorService> executorFactory;
   private final ScheduledExecutorService executor;
   private final DatabaseId db;
-  private final Attributes commonAttributes;
+  private final Attributes databaseAttributes;
 
   // SessionClient is created long before a DatabaseClientImpl is created,
   // as batch sessions are firstly created then later attached to each Client.
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ interface SessionConsumer {
     this.db = db;
     this.executorFactory = executorFactory;
     this.executor = executorFactory.get();
-    this.commonAttributes = spanner.getTracer().createCommonAttributes(db);
+    this.databaseAttributes = spanner.getTracer().createDatabaseAttributes(db);
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -236,7 +236,8 @@ SessionImpl createSession() {
       sessionChannelCounter++;
     }
     XGoogSpannerRequestId reqId = nextRequestId(channelId, 1);
-    ISpan span = spanner.getTracer().spanBuilder(SpannerImpl.CREATE_SESSION, this.commonAttributes);
+    ISpan span =
+        spanner.getTracer().spanBuilder(SpannerImpl.CREATE_SESSION, this.databaseAttributes);
     try (IScope s = spanner.getTracer().withSpan(span)) {
       com.google.spanner.v1.Session session =
           spanner
@@ -289,7 +290,7 @@ SessionImpl createMultiplexedSession() {
     ISpan span =
         spanner
             .getTracer()
-            .spanBuilder(SpannerImpl.CREATE_MULTIPLEXED_SESSION, this.commonAttributes);
+            .spanBuilder(SpannerImpl.CREATE_MULTIPLEXED_SESSION, this.databaseAttributes);
     // MultiplexedSession doesn't use a channelId hence this hard-coded value.
     int channelId = 0;
     XGoogSpannerRequestId reqId = nextRequestId(channelId, 1);
diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/SpannerImpl.java b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/SpannerImpl.java
index 34fad2a69c..16f3614472 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/SpannerImpl.java
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/SpannerImpl.java
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ public DatabaseClient getDatabaseClient(DatabaseId db) {
                 multiplexedSessionDatabaseClient,
                 getOptions().getSessionPoolOptions().getUseMultiplexedSessionPartitionedOps(),
                 useMultiplexedSessionForRW,
-                this.tracer.createCommonAttributes(db));
+                this.tracer.createDatabaseAttributes(db));
         dbClients.put(db, dbClient);
         return dbClient;
       }
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ DatabaseClientImpl createDatabaseClient(
       @Nullable MultiplexedSessionDatabaseClient multiplexedSessionClient,
       boolean useMultiplexedSessionPartitionedOps,
       boolean useMultiplexedSessionForRW,
-      Attributes commonAttributes) {
+      Attributes databaseAttributes) {
     if (multiplexedSessionClient != null) {
       // Set the session pool in the multiplexed session client.
       // This is required to handle fallback to regular sessions for in-progress transactions that
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ DatabaseClientImpl createDatabaseClient(
         useMultiplexedSessionPartitionedOps,
         tracer,
         useMultiplexedSessionForRW,
-        commonAttributes);
+        databaseAttributes);
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/TraceWrapper.java b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/TraceWrapper.java
index df5874cb3c..14a69631ef 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/TraceWrapper.java
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/TraceWrapper.java
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ class TraceWrapper {
   private final Tracer openCensusTracer;
   private final io.opentelemetry.api.trace.Tracer openTelemetryTracer;
   private final boolean enableExtendedTracing;
+  private final AttributesBuilder commonAttributesBuilder;
 
   TraceWrapper(
       Tracer openCensusTracer,
@@ -68,20 +69,24 @@ class TraceWrapper {
     this.openTelemetryTracer = openTelemetryTracer;
     this.openCensusTracer = openCensusTracer;
     this.enableExtendedTracing = enableExtendedTracing;
+    this.commonAttributesBuilder = createCommonAttributes();
   }
 
   ISpan spanBuilder(String spanName) {
     return spanBuilder(spanName, Attributes.empty());
   }
 
-  ISpan spanBuilder(String spanName, Attributes commonAttributes, TransactionOption... options) {
-    return spanBuilder(spanName, createTransactionAttributes(commonAttributes, options));
+  ISpan spanBuilder(String spanName, Attributes attributes, TransactionOption... options) {
+    return spanBuilder(spanName, createTransactionAttributes(attributes, options));
   }
 
   ISpan spanBuilder(String spanName, Attributes attributes) {
     if (SpannerOptions.getActiveTracingFramework().equals(TracingFramework.OPEN_TELEMETRY)) {
       return new OpenTelemetrySpan(
-          openTelemetryTracer.spanBuilder(spanName).setAllAttributes(attributes).startSpan());
+          openTelemetryTracer
+              .spanBuilder(spanName)
+              .setAllAttributes(this.commonAttributesBuilder.putAll(attributes).build())
+              .startSpan());
     } else {
       return new OpenCensusSpan(openCensusTracer.spanBuilder(spanName).startSpan());
     }
@@ -209,15 +214,20 @@ Attributes createTableAttributes(String tableName, Options options) {
     return builder.build();
   }
 
-  Attributes createCommonAttributes(DatabaseId db) {
+  Attributes createDatabaseAttributes(DatabaseId db) {
     AttributesBuilder builder = Attributes.builder();
     builder.put(DB_NAME_KEY, db.getDatabase());
     builder.put(INSTANCE_NAME_KEY, db.getInstanceId().getInstance());
+    return builder.build();
+  }
+
+  private AttributesBuilder createCommonAttributes() {
+    AttributesBuilder builder = Attributes.builder();
     builder.put(GCP_CLIENT_SERVICE_KEY, "spanner");
     builder.put(GCP_CLIENT_REPO_KEY, "googleapis/java-spanner");
     builder.put(GCP_CLIENT_VERSION_KEY, GaxProperties.getLibraryVersion(TraceWrapper.class));
     builder.put(CLOUD_REGION_KEY, BuiltInMetricsProvider.detectClientLocation());
-    return builder.build();
+    return builder;
   }
 
   private static String getTraceThreadName() {
diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/XGoogSpannerRequestId.java b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/XGoogSpannerRequestId.java
index 274592f9b4..47ccb05231 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/XGoogSpannerRequestId.java
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/XGoogSpannerRequestId.java
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ public class XGoogSpannerRequestId {
   @VisibleForTesting
   static final String RAND_PROCESS_ID = XGoogSpannerRequestId.generateRandProcessId();
 
-  static String REQUEST_ID = "x-goog-spanner-request-id";
+  public static String REQUEST_ID = "x-goog-spanner-request-id";
   public static final Metadata.Key<String> REQUEST_HEADER_KEY =
       Metadata.Key.of(REQUEST_ID, Metadata.ASCII_STRING_MARSHALLER);
 
diff --git a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/spi/v1/HeaderInterceptor.java b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/spi/v1/HeaderInterceptor.java
index bec062db90..1aaa7bd304 100644
--- a/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/spi/v1/HeaderInterceptor.java
+++ b/google-cloud-spanner/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spanner/spi/v1/HeaderInterceptor.java
@@ -112,14 +112,17 @@ public void start(Listener<RespT> responseListener, Metadata headers) {
           Span span = Span.current();
           DatabaseName databaseName = extractDatabaseName(headers);
           String key = extractKey(databaseName, method.getFullMethodName());
+          String requestId = extractRequestId(headers);
           TagContext tagContext = getTagContext(key, method.getFullMethodName(), databaseName);
           Attributes attributes =
               getMetricAttributes(key, method.getFullMethodName(), databaseName);
           Map<String, String> builtInMetricsAttributes =
               getBuiltInMetricAttributes(key, databaseName);
-          builtInMetricsAttributes.put(
-              BuiltInMetricsConstant.REQUEST_ID_KEY.getKey(), extractRequestId(headers));
+          builtInMetricsAttributes.put(BuiltInMetricsConstant.REQUEST_ID_KEY.getKey(), requestId);
           addBuiltInMetricAttributes(compositeTracer, builtInMetricsAttributes);
+          if (span != null) {
+            span.setAttribute(XGoogSpannerRequestId.REQUEST_ID, requestId);
+          }
           super.start(
               new SimpleForwardingClientCallListener<RespT>(responseListener) {
                 @Override