diff --git a/service-base/src/main/java/org/eclipse/hono/service/quarkus/DropBySpanNamePrefixSampler.java b/service-base/src/main/java/org/eclipse/hono/service/quarkus/DropBySpanNamePrefixSampler.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4077676dc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/service-base/src/main/java/org/eclipse/hono/service/quarkus/DropBySpanNamePrefixSampler.java
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2022 Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation
+ *
+ * See the NOTICE file(s) distributed with this work for additional
+ * information regarding copyright ownership.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+ */
+package org.eclipse.hono.service.quarkus;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import io.opentelemetry.api.common.Attributes;
+import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.SpanKind;
+import io.opentelemetry.context.Context;
+import io.opentelemetry.sdk.trace.data.LinkData;
+import io.opentelemetry.sdk.trace.samplers.Sampler;
+import io.opentelemetry.sdk.trace.samplers.SamplingResult;
+
+/**
+ * Sampler that drops spans based on a given list of span name prefixes.
+ */
+public class DropBySpanNamePrefixSampler implements Sampler {
+
+    private final Sampler sampler;
+    private final List<String> spanNamePrefixList;
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new DropBySpanNamePrefixSampler.
+     *
+     * @param sampler Sampler to use if the span name didn't match the given prefixes.
+     * @param spanNamePrefixList The list of prefixes to match the span name against for the decision whether to drop
+     *            the span.
+     */
+    public DropBySpanNamePrefixSampler(final Sampler sampler, final List<String> spanNamePrefixList) {
+        this.sampler = sampler;
+        this.spanNamePrefixList = spanNamePrefixList;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public SamplingResult shouldSample(final Context parentContext, final String traceId, final String spanName, final SpanKind spanKind,
+            final Attributes attributes, final List<LinkData> parentLinks) {
+
+        for (final String spanNamePrefix : spanNamePrefixList) {
+            if (spanName.startsWith(spanNamePrefix)) {
+                return SamplingResult.drop();
+            }
+        }
+        return sampler.shouldSample(parentContext, traceId, spanName, spanKind, attributes, parentLinks);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getDescription() {
+        return sampler.getDescription();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/service-base/src/main/java/org/eclipse/hono/service/quarkus/DropHttpRequestSpansSampler.java b/service-base/src/main/java/org/eclipse/hono/service/quarkus/DropHttpRequestSpansSampler.java
index bab00eab94..3752ff53b5 100644
--- a/service-base/src/main/java/org/eclipse/hono/service/quarkus/DropHttpRequestSpansSampler.java
+++ b/service-base/src/main/java/org/eclipse/hono/service/quarkus/DropHttpRequestSpansSampler.java
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.hono.service.quarkus;
 
-import java.net.URI;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import io.opentelemetry.api.common.Attributes;
@@ -43,25 +42,14 @@ public DropHttpRequestSpansSampler(final Sampler sampler) {
     public SamplingResult shouldSample(final Context parentContext, final String traceId, final String spanName, final SpanKind spanKind,
             final Attributes attributes, final List<LinkData> parentLinks) {
         if (spanKind.equals(SpanKind.SERVER)) {
-            final String httpTargetPath = getHttpTargetPath(attributes.get(SemanticAttributes.HTTP_TARGET));
-            if (httpTargetPath != null && !httpTargetPath.isBlank() && httpTargetPath.equals(spanName)) {
+            final String httpTarget = attributes.get(SemanticAttributes.HTTP_TARGET);
+            if (httpTarget != null && httpTarget.equals(spanName)) {
                 return SamplingResult.drop();
             }
         }
         return sampler.shouldSample(parentContext, traceId, spanName, spanKind, attributes, parentLinks);
     }
 
-    private String getHttpTargetPath(final String httpTarget) {
-        if (httpTarget != null) {
-            try {
-                return URI.create(httpTarget).getPath();
-            } catch (final IllegalArgumentException e) {
-                // ignore
-            }
-        }
-        return null;
-    }
-
     @Override
     public String getDescription() {
         return sampler.getDescription();
diff --git a/service-base/src/main/java/org/eclipse/hono/service/quarkus/SamplerProducer.java b/service-base/src/main/java/org/eclipse/hono/service/quarkus/SamplerProducer.java
index 2431af5684..a1fcf01e95 100644
--- a/service-base/src/main/java/org/eclipse/hono/service/quarkus/SamplerProducer.java
+++ b/service-base/src/main/java/org/eclipse/hono/service/quarkus/SamplerProducer.java
@@ -12,12 +12,15 @@
  */
 package org.eclipse.hono.service.quarkus;
 
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Optional;
 
 import javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
 import javax.enterprise.inject.Produces;
 import javax.inject.Singleton;
 
+import org.eclipse.hono.util.AuthenticationConstants;
+import org.eclipse.hono.util.Constants;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -52,7 +55,12 @@ Sampler sampler(final TracerRuntimeConfig tracerRuntimeConfig) {
         // Dropping all requests spans also makes sure there are no liveness/readiness request spans created.
         // Suppression of these spans via "quarkus.opentelemetry.tracer.suppress-non-application-uris" doesn't work
         // if the non-application-root-path is the same as the overall root path.
-        return new DropHttpRequestSpansSampler(sampler);
+        sampler = new DropHttpRequestSpansSampler(sampler);
+        // drop spans for the given event bus message prefixes
+        return new DropBySpanNamePrefixSampler(
+                sampler,
+                List.of(Constants.EVENT_BUS_ADDRESS_NOTIFICATION_PREFIX, Constants.EVENT_BUS_ADDRESS_TENANT_TIMED_OUT,
+                        AuthenticationConstants.EVENT_BUS_ADDRESS_AUTHENTICATION_IN));
     }
 
     private static Sampler getBaseSampler(final String samplerName, final Optional<Double> ratio) {