How to disable sending "Slow DB Query" events to Sentry in a Spring Boot application?

Question

I am using Sentry with a Spring Boot application, and I am trying to reduce the number of "Slow DB Query" events being sent to Sentry. Currently, my application sends a lot of these events, which clutters the Sentry dashboard and increases infrastructure costs.

Here are some key points about my setup:

• In Sentry, these events are detected as spans where the operation starts with db, the description contains the query, and the duration exceeds 500ms.
• I use the following settings in application.yml:

sentry:
  dsn: <my-dsn>
  exception-resolver-order: -1
  enable-user-interaction-tracing: true
  sendDefaultPii: true
  traces-sample-rate: 0.01 # 1% of traces are sampled

• I have read in the Sentry documentation that thresholds for "Slow DB Query" issues can be configured under Project Settings > Performance on the Sentry server, but it seems this only controls issue detection and not the events being sent from the client.

I want to prevent my application from sending these "Slow DB Query" spans to Sentry altogether. Specifically:

• Can I filter out these spans on the client-side using beforeSendTransaction or another mechanism in Sentry's Java SDK?

• If yes, how can I identify these spans and ensure they are not sent to Sentry?

• Alternatively, is there another recommended approach to reduce the number of such events? Any help or code examples would be greatly appreciated. I use spring boot 2.7.16, postgreSQL, Java 17 and

<dependency>
    <artifactId>sentry-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
    <version>6.33.1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.sentry</groupId>
    <artifactId>sentry-jdbc</artifactId>
    <version>7.8.0</version>
</dependency>