diff --git a/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/socket.io/scenario.js b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/socket.io/scenario.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ed785f8d9797
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/socket.io/scenario.js
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+const { loggingTransport, sendPortToRunner } = require('@sentry-internal/node-integration-tests');
+const Sentry = require('@sentry/node');
+
+Sentry.init({
+  dsn: 'https://public@dsn.ingest.sentry.io/1337',
+  release: '1.0',
+  tracesSampleRate: 1.0,
+  transport: loggingTransport,
+});
+
+// Stop the process from exiting before the transaction is sent
+setInterval(() => {}, 1000);
+
+const http = require('http');
+const express = require('express');
+const cors = require('cors');
+const { Server } = require('socket.io');
+const ioc = require('socket.io-client');
+
+const PORT = 3005;
+
+const run = async () => {
+  const app = express();
+  app.use(cors());
+
+  const expressServer = http.createServer(app);
+
+  const io = new Server(expressServer);
+
+  app.get('/', (_req, res) => {
+    io.emit('test', 'TEST MESSAGE');
+    res.send('123');
+  });
+
+  expressServer.listen(PORT, () => {
+    io.on('connection', client => {
+      client.on('test_reply', _data => {
+        client.disconnect();
+        io.close();
+      });
+    });
+
+    const clientSocket = ioc(`http://localhost:${PORT}`);
+
+    clientSocket.on('test', _msg => {
+      clientSocket.emit('test_reply', { test_key: 'test_value' });
+    });
+  });
+
+  sendPortToRunner(PORT);
+};
+
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-floating-promises
+run();
diff --git a/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/socket.io/test.ts b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/socket.io/test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..45b608760422
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/tracing/socket.io/test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import { cleanupChildProcesses, createRunner } from '../../../utils/runner';
+
+describe('socket.io auto instrumentation', () => {
+  afterAll(() => {
+    cleanupChildProcesses();
+  });
+
+  test('should auto-instrument `socket.io` package', done => {
+    const SERVER_TRANSACTION = {
+      transaction: 'GET /',
+      spans: expect.arrayContaining([
+        expect.objectContaining({
+          origin: 'auto.socket.otel.socket_io',
+          data: {
+            'sentry.origin': 'auto.socket.otel.socket_io',
+            'messaging.destination': '/',
+            'messaging.destination_kind': 'topic',
+            'messaging.socket.io.event_name': 'test',
+            'messaging.socket.io.namespace': '/',
+            'messaging.system': 'socket.io',
+            'otel.kind': 'PRODUCER',
+            'sentry.op': 'message',
+          },
+          description: '/ send',
+          op: 'message',
+          status: 'ok',
+        }),
+      ]),
+    };
+
+    const CLIENT_TRANSACTION = {
+      transaction: 'test_reply receive',
+      contexts: {
+        trace: expect.objectContaining({
+          span_id: expect.any(String),
+          trace_id: expect.any(String),
+          data: expect.objectContaining({
+            'sentry.op': 'message',
+            'sentry.origin': 'auto.socket.otel.socket_io',
+            'otel.kind': 'CONSUMER',
+            'messaging.system': 'socket.io',
+            'messaging.destination': '/',
+            'messaging.operation': 'receive',
+            'messaging.socket.io.event_name': 'test_reply',
+          }),
+          origin: 'auto.socket.otel.socket_io',
+          op: 'message',
+          status: 'ok',
+        }),
+      },
+    };
+
+    createRunner(__dirname, 'scenario.js')
+      .expect({ transaction: SERVER_TRANSACTION })
+      .expect({ transaction: CLIENT_TRANSACTION })
+      .start(done)
+      .makeRequest('get', '/');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/socket.io.ts b/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/socket.io.ts
index a68a1ae96599..d8aa4adea15c 100644
--- a/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/socket.io.ts
+++ b/packages/node/src/integrations/tracing/socket.io.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import { SocketIoInstrumentation } from '@opentelemetry/instrumentation-socket.i
 import { defineIntegration } from '@sentry/core';
 import type { IntegrationFn } from '@sentry/types';
 import { generateInstrumentOnce } from '../../otel/instrument';
-
 import { addOriginToSpan } from '../../utils/addOriginToSpan';
 
 const INTEGRATION_NAME = 'Socket.io';
@@ -14,6 +13,10 @@ export const instrumentSocketIo = generateInstrumentOnce(
       emitHook(span) {
         addOriginToSpan(span, 'auto.socket.otel.socket_io');
       },
+      onHook(span) {
+        addOriginToSpan(span, 'auto.socket.otel.socket_io');
+      },
+      traceReserved: true,
     }),
 );