diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 39d0ceb6b..02c1f28a9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ express/node_modules
 /.pnp
 .pnp.js
 .vercel
+react/config-overrides.js
 
 # testing
 /coverage
diff --git a/react/src/components/Cart.jsx b/react/src/components/Cart.jsx
index fb454b71b..0dcf93fc0 100644
--- a/react/src/components/Cart.jsx
+++ b/react/src/components/Cart.jsx
@@ -4,13 +4,16 @@ import * as Sentry from '@sentry/react';
 import Button from './ButtonLink';
 import { connect } from 'react-redux';
 import { setProducts, addProduct, removeProduct } from '../actions';
-import { getTag, itemsInCart } from '../utils/utils';
+import { countItemsInCart } from '../utils/cart';
+import { getTag } from '../utils/utils';
 
-function Cart({ cart, removeProduct, addProduct }) {
-
-  let tags = { 'backendType': getTag('backendType'), 'cexp': getTag('cexp') }
-  Sentry.metrics.increment('checkout.items_added_to_cart', itemsInCart(cart), { tags });
 
+function Cart({ cart, removeProduct, addProduct }) {
+  const itemsInCart = countItemsInCart(cart);
+  let tags = { 'backendType': getTag('backendType'), 'cexp': getTag('cexp'), 'items_in_cart': itemsInCart };
+  const span = Sentry.startInactiveSpan({ name: "items_added_to_cart", op: "function"});
+  span.setAttributes(tags);
+  span.end();
   return (
     <div className="cart-container">
       <h2 className="sentry-unmask">Cart</h2>
diff --git a/react/src/components/Checkout.jsx b/react/src/components/Checkout.jsx
index d3eaa1fca..8eee4647c 100644
--- a/react/src/components/Checkout.jsx
+++ b/react/src/components/Checkout.jsx
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ import './checkout.css';
 import * as Sentry from '@sentry/react';
 import { connect } from 'react-redux';
 import Loader from 'react-loader-spinner';
-import { getTag, itemsInCart } from '../utils/utils';
+import { countItemsInCart } from '../utils/cart';
+import { getTag } from '../utils/utils';
+
 
 function Checkout({ backend, rageclick, checkout_success, cart }) {
   const navigate = useNavigate();
@@ -41,11 +43,28 @@ function Checkout({ backend, rageclick, checkout_success, cart }) {
   }
   const [form, setForm] = useState(initialFormValues);
 
-  let tags = { 'backendType': getTag('backendType'), 'cexp': getTag('cexp') }
+async function checkout(cart, checkout_span) {
+    console.log("Checkout called with cart:", cart);
+    console.log("Checkout span:", checkout_span);
+    const itemsInCart = countItemsInCart(cart);
+    console.log("Calculated itemsInCart:", itemsInCart);
+    
+    if (!checkout_span || typeof checkout_span.setAttribute !== 'function') {
+        console.error("Invalid checkout_span object:", checkout_span);
+        return;
+    }
+    
+    checkout_span.setAttribute("checkout.click", 1);
+    checkout_span.setAttribute("items_at_checkout", itemsInCart);
+    
+    // Verify attributes were set
+    console.log("Span attributes after setting:", {
+        click: checkout_span.getAttribute("checkout.click"),
+        items: checkout_span.getAttribute("items_at_checkout")
+    });
 
-  async function checkout(cart) {
-    Sentry.metrics.increment('checkout.click', 1, { tags });
-    Sentry.metrics.increment('checkout.items_in_cart', itemsInCart(cart), { tags });
+    let tags = { 'backendType': getTag('backendType'), 'cexp': getTag('cexp'), 'items_at_checkout': itemsInCart, 'checkout.click': 1 };
+    checkout_span.setAttributes(tags);
     const stopMeasurement = measureRequestDuration('/checkout');
     const response = await fetch(backend + '/checkout?v2=true', {
       method: 'POST',
@@ -56,28 +75,32 @@ function Checkout({ backend, rageclick, checkout_success, cart }) {
         validate_inventory: checkout_success ? "false" : "true",
       }),
     })
-      .catch((err) => {
-        Sentry.metrics.increment('checkout.error', 1, {
-          tags: { status: 500 },
-        });
-        return { ok: false, status: 500 };
+    .catch((err) => {
+      checkout_span.setAttributes({
+        "checkout.error": 1,
+        "status": 500
       })
-      .then((res) => {
-        stopMeasurement();
-        return res;
-      });
+      return { ok: false, status: 500 };
+    })
+    .then((res) => {
+      stopMeasurement();
+      return res;
+    });
     if (!response.ok) {
-      Sentry.metrics.increment('checkout.error', 1, {
-        tags: { status: response.status, ...tags },
-      });
+      checkout_span.setAttributes({
+        "checkout.error": 1,
+        "status": response.status
+      })
+
       throw new Error(
         [response.status, response.statusText || ' Internal Server Error'].join(
           ' -'
         )
       );
     }
-    Sentry.metrics.increment('checkout.success', 1, { tags });
-    Sentry.metrics.distribution('checkout.order.total', cart.total);
+    checkout_span.setAttribute("checkout.success", 1)
+    checkout_span.setAttribute("checkout.order.total", cart.total);
+
     return response;
   } 
   function generateUrl(product_id) {
@@ -114,7 +137,7 @@ function Checkout({ backend, rageclick, checkout_success, cart }) {
       setLoading(true);
 
       try {
-        await checkout(cart);
+        await checkout(cart, span);
       } catch (error) {
         Sentry.captureException(error);
         hadError = true;
diff --git a/react/src/components/Products.jsx b/react/src/components/Products.jsx
index 4802e510a..63bcef655 100644
--- a/react/src/components/Products.jsx
+++ b/react/src/components/Products.jsx
@@ -85,49 +85,43 @@ function Products({ frontendSlowdown, backend, productsExtremelySlow, productsBe
     related to the async keyword + babel transform, hence why it probably got
     fixed with hooks (no transform on that class method anymore)"
   */
-  useEffect(() => {
-    // getProducts handles error responses differently, depending on the browser used
-    function getProducts(frontendSlowdown) {
-      [('/api', '/connect', '/organization')].forEach((endpoint) => {
-        fetch(backend + endpoint, {
-          method: 'GET',
-          headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
-        }).catch((err) => {
-          // If there's an error, it won't stop the Products http request and page from loading
-          Sentry.captureException(err);
-        });
+  async function getProducts(frontendSlowdown) {
+    [('/api', '/connect', '/organization')].forEach((endpoint, activeSpan) => {
+      fetch(backend + endpoint, {
+        method: 'GET',
+        headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+      }).catch((err) => {
+        // If there's an error, it won't stop the Products http request and page from loading
+        Sentry.captureException(err);
       });
-
-      // When triggering a frontend-only slowdown, use the products-join endpoint
-      // because it returns product data with a fast backend response.
-      // Otherwise use the /products endpoint, which provides a slow backend response.
-      const productsEndpoint = determineProductsEndpoint();
-      const stopMeasurement = measureRequestDuration(productsEndpoint);
-      fetch(backend + productsEndpoint, {
+    });
+    const productsEndpoint = determineProductsEndpoint();
+    Sentry.startSpan({ name: "Fetch Products"}, async (span) => {
+      const stopMeasurement = measureRequestDuration(productsEndpoint, span);
+      const response = await fetch(backend + productsEndpoint, {
         method: 'GET',
         headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
-      })
-        .then((result) => {
-          if (!result.ok) {
-            Sentry.setContext('err', {
-              status: result.status,
-              statusText: result.statusText,
-            });
-            return Promise.reject();
-          } else {
-            return result.json();
-          }
-        })
-        .then(renderProducts)
-        .catch((err) => {
-          return { ok: false, status: 500 };
-        }).then((res) => {
-          stopMeasurement()
-          return res
+      });
+      const data = await response.json();
+
+      if (!response.ok) {
+        Sentry.setContext('err', {
+          status: response.status,
+          statusText: response.statusText,
         });
-    }
+        return;
+      }
+      renderProducts(data);
+      stopMeasurement();
+    })
+  }
 
-    getProducts(frontendSlowdown);
+  useEffect(() => {
+     try {
+      getProducts(frontendSlowdown)
+     } catch (error) {
+      Sentry.captureException(error)
+     }
   }, []);
 
   return products.length > 0 ? (
diff --git a/react/src/utils/cart.js b/react/src/utils/cart.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..887748c13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/react/src/utils/cart.js
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+export function countItemsInCart(cart) {
+    let totalItems = 0;
+    
+    if (!cart || !cart.quantities) {
+        console.log("Cart or cart.quantities is undefined!");
+        return totalItems;
+    }
+
+    totalItems = Object.values(cart.quantities)
+        .reduce((sum, quantity) => {
+            console.log("Adding quantity:", quantity);
+            return sum + quantity;
+        }, 0);
+
+    return totalItems;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/react/src/utils/measureRequestDuration.js b/react/src/utils/measureRequestDuration.js
index ae17e21ab..a7d830cd2 100644
--- a/react/src/utils/measureRequestDuration.js
+++ b/react/src/utils/measureRequestDuration.js
@@ -6,16 +6,19 @@ import * as Sentry from '@sentry/react';
  * @param {string} endpoint the endpoint that was called
  * @returns {() => void} a function to stop the measurement
  */
-export default function measureRequestDuration(endpoint) {
+export default function measureRequestDuration(endpoint, requestSpan) {
   const start = Date.now();
   
   function stopMeasurement() {
     const end = Date.now();
     const duration = end - start;
-    Sentry.metrics.distribution('request.duration', duration, {
-      unit: 'millisecond',
-      tags: { endpoint }
-    });
+    if (requestSpan !== undefined) {
+      requestSpan.setAttributes({
+        "request.duration": duration,
+        "unit": "milisecond",
+        "endpoint": endpoint
+      })
+    }
   }
 
   return stopMeasurement;