diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 33620d4d..f5033cf4 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@
   "require": {
     "php": "^7.1",
     "illuminate/support": "5.0 - 5.8 | ^6.0 | ^7.0",
-    "sentry/sdk": "^2.1"
+    "sentry/sdk": "3.x-dev"
   },
+  "minimum-stability": "dev",
+  "prefer-stable": true,
   "require-dev": {
     "phpunit/phpunit": "^8.0",
     "laravel/framework": "^6.0",
@@ -53,7 +55,8 @@
     },
     "laravel": {
       "providers": [
-        "Sentry\\Laravel\\ServiceProvider"
+        "Sentry\\Laravel\\ServiceProvider",
+        "Sentry\\Laravel\\Tracing\\ServiceProvider"
       ],
       "aliases": {
         "Sentry": "Sentry\\Laravel\\Facade"
diff --git a/config/sentry.php b/config/sentry.php
index 8c91c3db..949de548 100644
--- a/config/sentry.php
+++ b/config/sentry.php
@@ -27,4 +27,5 @@
     // @see: https://docs.sentry.io/error-reporting/configuration/?platform=php#send-default-pii
     'send_default_pii' => false,
 
+    'traces_sample_rate' => 0,
 ];
diff --git a/src/Sentry/Laravel/EventHandler.php b/src/Sentry/Laravel/EventHandler.php
index 896259e7..326c506f 100644
--- a/src/Sentry/Laravel/EventHandler.php
+++ b/src/Sentry/Laravel/EventHandler.php
@@ -16,11 +16,12 @@
 use Illuminate\Queue\QueueManager;
 use Illuminate\Routing\Events\RouteMatched;
 use Illuminate\Routing\Route;
-use Illuminate\Support\Str;
 use RuntimeException;
 use Sentry\Breadcrumb;
 use Sentry\SentrySdk;
 use Sentry\State\Scope;
+use Sentry\Tracing\SpanContext;
+use Sentry\Tracing\Transaction;
 
 class EventHandler
 {
@@ -194,26 +195,16 @@ public function __call($method, $arguments)
      */
     protected function routerMatchedHandler(Route $route)
     {
-        $routeName = null;
+        $routeName = Integration::extractNameForRoute($route) ?? '<unlabeled transaction>';
 
-        if ($route->getName()) {
-            // someaction (route name/alias)
-            $routeName = $route->getName();
+        $transaction = SentrySdk::getCurrentHub()->getTransaction();
 
-            // Laravel 7 route caching generates a route names if the user didn't specify one
-            // theirselfs to optimize route matching. These route names are useless to the
-            // developer so if we encounter a generated route name we discard the value
-            if (Str::startsWith($routeName, 'generated::')) {
-                $routeName = null;
-            }
-        }
-
-        if (empty($routeName) && $route->getActionName()) {
-            // SomeController@someAction (controller action)
-            $routeName = $route->getActionName();
-        } elseif (empty($routeName) || $routeName === 'Closure') {
-            // /someaction // Fallback to the url
-            $routeName = $route->uri();
+        if ($transaction instanceof Transaction) {
+            $transaction->setName($routeName);
+            $transaction->setData([
+                'action' => $route->getActionName(),
+                'name' => $route->getName()
+            ]);
         }
 
         Integration::addBreadcrumb(new Breadcrumb(
@@ -287,6 +278,16 @@ private function addQueryBreadcrumb($query, $bindings, $time, $connectionName)
             $data['bindings'] = $bindings;
         }
 
+        $transaction = SentrySdk::getCurrentHub()->getTransaction();
+        if (null !== $transaction) {
+            $context = new SpanContext();
+            $context->op = 'sql.query';
+            $context->description = $query;
+            $context->startTimestamp = microtime(true) - $time / 1000;
+            $context->endTimestamp = $context->startTimestamp + $time / 1000;
+            $transaction->startChild($context);
+        }
+
         Integration::addBreadcrumb(new Breadcrumb(
             Breadcrumb::LEVEL_INFO,
             Breadcrumb::TYPE_DEFAULT,
diff --git a/src/Sentry/Laravel/Integration.php b/src/Sentry/Laravel/Integration.php
index 7c6eff68..01d215c9 100644
--- a/src/Sentry/Laravel/Integration.php
+++ b/src/Sentry/Laravel/Integration.php
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 
 namespace Sentry\Laravel;
 
+use Illuminate\Routing\Route;
+use Illuminate\Support\Str;
 use Sentry\FlushableClientInterface;
 use Sentry\SentrySdk;
+use Sentry\Tracing\Span;
 use function Sentry\addBreadcrumb;
 use function Sentry\configureScope;
 use Sentry\Breadcrumb;
@@ -30,7 +33,9 @@ public function setupOnce(): void
                 return $event;
             }
 
-            $event->setTransaction($self->getTransaction());
+            if (null === $event->getTransaction()) {
+                $event->setTransaction($self->getTransaction());
+            }
 
             return $event;
         });
@@ -71,7 +76,7 @@ public static function configureScope(callable $callback): void
     /**
      * @return null|string
      */
-    public static function getTransaction()
+    public static function getTransaction(): ?string
     {
         return self::$transaction;
     }
@@ -98,4 +103,78 @@ public static function flushEvents(): void
             $client->flush();
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Extract the readable name for a route.
+     *
+     * @param \Illuminate\Routing\Route $route
+     *
+     * @return string|null
+     */
+    public static function extractNameForRoute(Route $route): ?string
+    {
+        $routeName = null;
+
+        if (empty($routeName) && $route->getName()) {
+            // someaction (route name/alias)
+            $routeName = $route->getName();
+
+            // Laravel 7 route caching generates a route names if the user didn't specify one
+            // theirselfs to optimize route matching. These route names are useless to the
+            // developer so if we encounter a generated route name we discard the value
+            if (Str::startsWith($routeName, 'generated::')) {
+                $routeName = null;
+            }
+
+            // If the route name ends with a `.` we assume an incomplete group name prefix
+            // we discard this value since it will most likely not mean anything to the
+            // developer and will be duplicated by other unnamed routes in the group
+            if (Str::endsWith($routeName, '.')) {
+                $routeName = null;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (empty($routeName) && $route->getActionName()) {
+            // SomeController@someAction (controller action)
+            $routeName = ltrim($route->getActionName(), '\\');
+        }
+
+        if (empty($routeName) || $routeName === 'Closure') {
+            // /someaction // Fallback to the url
+            $routeName = '/' . ltrim($route->uri(), '/');
+        }
+
+        return $routeName;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieve the meta tags with tracing information to link this request to front-end requests.
+     *
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public static function sentryTracingMeta(): string
+    {
+        $span = self::currentTracingSpan();
+
+        if ($span === null) {
+            return '';
+        }
+
+        $content = sprintf('<meta name="sentry-trace" content="%s"/>', $span->toTraceparent());
+        // $content .= sprintf('<meta name="sentry-trace-data" content="%s"/>', $span->getDescription());
+
+        return $content;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the current active tracing span from the scope.
+     *
+     * @return \Sentry\Tracing\Span|null
+     *
+     * @internal This is used internally as an easy way to retrieve the current active tracing span.
+     */
+    public static function currentTracingSpan(): ?Span
+    {
+        return SentrySdk::getCurrentHub()->getSpan();
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/Sentry/Laravel/ServiceProvider.php b/src/Sentry/Laravel/ServiceProvider.php
index 11f48488..7005bc6d 100644
--- a/src/Sentry/Laravel/ServiceProvider.php
+++ b/src/Sentry/Laravel/ServiceProvider.php
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 namespace Sentry\Laravel;
 
+use Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel as HttpKernelInterface;
 use Sentry\SentrySdk;
 use Sentry\State\Hub;
 use Sentry\ClientBuilder;
diff --git a/src/Sentry/Laravel/Tracing/Middleware.php b/src/Sentry/Laravel/Tracing/Middleware.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..074e7c04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Sentry/Laravel/Tracing/Middleware.php
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Sentry\Laravel\Tracing;
+
+use Closure;
+use Illuminate\Http\Request;
+use Sentry\SentrySdk;
+use Sentry\State\Hub;
+use Sentry\State\Scope;
+use Sentry\Tracing\SpanContext;
+use Sentry\Tracing\TransactionContext;
+
+class Middleware
+{
+    /**
+     * The current active transaction.
+     *
+     * @var \Sentry\Tracing\Transaction|null
+     */
+    protected $transaction;
+
+    /**
+     * Handle an incoming request.
+     *
+     * @param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
+     * @param \Closure                 $next
+     *
+     * @return mixed
+     */
+    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
+    {
+        if (app()->bound('sentry')) {
+            $this->startTransaction($request, app('sentry'));
+        }
+
+        return $next($request);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Handle the application termination.
+     *
+     * @param \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
+     * @param \Illuminate\Http\Response $response
+     *
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function terminate($request, $response): void
+    {
+        if ($this->transaction !== null && app()->bound('sentry')) {
+            $this->transaction->finish();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private function startTransaction(Request $request, Hub $sentry): void
+    {
+        $path = '/' . ltrim($request->path(), '/');
+        $fallbackTime = microtime(true);
+        $sentryTraceHeader = $request->header('sentry-trace');
+
+        $context = $sentryTraceHeader
+            ? TransactionContext::fromTraceparent($sentryTraceHeader)
+            : new TransactionContext;
+
+        $context->op = 'http.server';
+        $context->name = $path;
+        $context->data = [
+            'url' => $path,
+            'method' => strtoupper($request->method()),
+        ];
+        $context->startTimestamp = $request->server('REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT', $fallbackTime);
+
+        $this->transaction = $sentry->startTransaction($context);
+
+        // Setting the Transaction on the Hub
+        SentrySdk::getCurrentHub()->setSpan($this->transaction);
+
+        if (!$this->addBootTimeSpans()) {
+            // @TODO: We might want to move this together with the `RouteMatches` listener to some central place and or do this from the `EventHandler`
+            app()->booted(function () use ($request, $fallbackTime): void {
+                $spanContextStart = new SpanContext();
+                $spanContextStart->op = 'app.bootstrap';
+                $spanContextStart->startTimestamp = defined('LARAVEL_START') ? LARAVEL_START : $request->server('REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT', $fallbackTime);
+                $spanContextStart->endTimestamp = microtime(true);
+                $this->transaction->startChild($spanContextStart);
+            });
+        }
+    }
+
+    private function addBootTimeSpans(): bool
+    {
+        if (!defined('LARAVEL_START') || !LARAVEL_START) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (!defined('SENTRY_AUTOLOAD') || !SENTRY_AUTOLOAD) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        if (!defined('SENTRY_BOOTSTRAP') || !SENTRY_BOOTSTRAP) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        $spanContextStart = new SpanContext();
+        $spanContextStart->op = 'autoload';
+        $spanContextStart->startTimestamp = LARAVEL_START;
+        $spanContextStart->endTimestamp = SENTRY_AUTOLOAD;
+        $this->transaction->startChild($spanContextStart);
+
+        $spanContextStart = new SpanContext();
+        $spanContextStart->op = 'bootstrap';
+        $spanContextStart->startTimestamp = SENTRY_AUTOLOAD;
+        $spanContextStart->endTimestamp = SENTRY_BOOTSTRAP;
+        $this->transaction->startChild($spanContextStart);
+
+        return true;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Sentry/Laravel/Tracing/ServiceProvider.php b/src/Sentry/Laravel/Tracing/ServiceProvider.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..084ee835
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Sentry/Laravel/Tracing/ServiceProvider.php
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Sentry\Laravel\Tracing;
+
+use Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel as HttpKernelInterface;
+use Illuminate\Contracts\View\Engine;
+use Illuminate\Contracts\View\View;
+use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider as IlluminateServiceProvider;
+use Illuminate\View\Engines\EngineResolver;
+use Illuminate\View\Factory as ViewFactory;
+
+class ServiceProvider extends IlluminateServiceProvider
+{
+    public function boot(): void
+    {
+        if ($this->app->bound(HttpKernelInterface::class)) {
+            /** @var \Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel $httpKernel */
+            $httpKernel = $this->app->make(HttpKernelInterface::class);
+
+            $httpKernel->prependMiddleware(Middleware::class);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public function register(): void
+    {
+        $this->app->singleton(Middleware::class);
+
+        $viewEngineWrapper = function (EngineResolver $engineResolver): void {
+            foreach (['file', 'php', 'blade'] as $engineName) {
+                try {
+                    $realEngine = $engineResolver->resolve($engineName);
+
+                    $engineResolver->register($engineName, function () use ($realEngine) {
+                        return $this->wrapViewEngine($realEngine);
+                    });
+                } catch (InvalidArgumentException $e) {
+                    // The `file` engine was introduced in Laravel 5.4. On lower Laravel versions
+                    // resolving that driver  will throw an `InvalidArgumentException`. We can
+                    // ignore this exception because we can't wrap drivers that don't exist
+                }
+            }
+        };
+
+        if ($this->app->resolved('view.engine.resolver')) {
+            $viewEngineWrapper($this->app->make('view.engine.resolver'));
+        } else {
+            $this->app->afterResolving('view.engine.resolver', $viewEngineWrapper);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private function wrapViewEngine(Engine $realEngine): Engine
+    {
+        /** @var ViewFactory $viewFactory */
+        $viewFactory = $this->app->make('view');
+
+        /** @noinspection UnusedFunctionResultInspection */
+        $viewFactory->composer('*', static function (View $view) use ($viewFactory) : void {
+            $viewFactory->share(ViewEngineDecorator::SHARED_KEY, $view->name());
+        });
+
+        return new ViewEngineDecorator($realEngine, $viewFactory);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Sentry/Laravel/Tracing/ViewEngineDecorator.php b/src/Sentry/Laravel/Tracing/ViewEngineDecorator.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c059273c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Sentry/Laravel/Tracing/ViewEngineDecorator.php
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+<?php
+
+
+namespace Sentry\Laravel\Tracing;
+
+use Illuminate\Contracts\View\Engine;
+use Illuminate\View\Compilers\CompilerInterface;
+use Illuminate\View\Factory;
+use Sentry\Laravel\Integration;
+use Sentry\Tracing\SpanContext;
+
+final class ViewEngineDecorator implements Engine
+{
+    public const SHARED_KEY = '__sentry_tracing_view_name';
+
+    /** @var Engine */
+    private $engine;
+
+    /** @var Factory */
+    private $viewFactory;
+
+    public function __construct(Engine $engine, Factory $viewFactory)
+    {
+        $this->engine = $engine;
+        $this->viewFactory = $viewFactory;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@inheritdoc}
+     */
+    public function get($path, array $data = []): string
+    {
+        $parentSpan = Integration::currentTracingSpan();
+
+        if ($parentSpan === null) {
+            return $this->engine->get($path, $data);
+        }
+
+        $context = new SpanContext();
+        $context->op = 'view.render';
+        $context->description = $this->viewFactory->shared(self::SHARED_KEY, basename($path));
+
+        $span = $parentSpan->startChild($context);
+
+        $result = $this->engine->get($path, $data);
+
+        $span->finish();
+
+        return $result;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Laravel uses this function internally
+     */
+    public function getCompiler(): CompilerInterface
+    {
+        return $this->engine->getCompiler();
+    }
+}