Dynamic sampling context might be missing from Celery Beat transactions

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How do you use Sentry?

Sentry Saas (sentry.io)

Version

Latest 2.x

Steps to Reproduce

Update: See here for a simple demonstration of the broken behavior.

Under investigation – if the dynamic sampling context is missing from transactions started in Celery Beat, this would explain strange behavior we observe in Sentry where the parent (Celery Beat) transaction is missing while the child transactions are all present

Expected Result

Celery Beat transactions contain a dynamic sampling context

Actual Result

In some cases, the dynamic sampling context might be missing