diff --git a/packages/apm/src/integrations/tracing.ts b/packages/apm/src/integrations/tracing.ts
index 8e1a30299545..3e136e4f5bc7 100644
--- a/packages/apm/src/integrations/tracing.ts
+++ b/packages/apm/src/integrations/tracing.ts
@@ -202,16 +202,16 @@ export class Tracing implements Integration {
         return event;
       }
 
-      if (
-        Tracing.options.maxTransactionDuration !== 0 &&
-        Tracing._isEnabled() &&
-        event.type === 'transaction' &&
-        event.timestamp &&
-        event.start_timestamp &&
-        (event.timestamp - event.start_timestamp > Tracing.options.maxTransactionDuration ||
-          event.timestamp - event.start_timestamp < 0)
-      ) {
-        return null;
+      if (Tracing._isEnabled()) {
+        const isOutdatedTransaction =
+          event.timestamp &&
+          event.start_timestamp &&
+          (event.timestamp - event.start_timestamp > Tracing.options.maxTransactionDuration ||
+            event.timestamp - event.start_timestamp < 0);
+
+        if (Tracing.options.maxTransactionDuration !== 0 && event.type === 'transaction' && isOutdatedTransaction) {
+          return null;
+        }
       }
 
       return event;
diff --git a/packages/apm/src/span.ts b/packages/apm/src/span.ts
index 2fca37e62188..d473d04cbb45 100644
--- a/packages/apm/src/span.ts
+++ b/packages/apm/src/span.ts
@@ -238,7 +238,10 @@ export class Span implements SpanInterface, SpanContext {
    */
   public setHttpStatus(httpStatus: number): this {
     this.setTag('http.status_code', String(httpStatus));
-    this.setStatus(SpanStatus.fromHttpCode(httpStatus));
+    const spanStatus = SpanStatus.fromHttpCode(httpStatus);
+    if (spanStatus !== SpanStatus.UnknownError) {
+      this.setStatus(spanStatus);
+    }
     return this;
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/types/src/span.ts b/packages/types/src/span.ts
index 0c7a9383b1da..4bb18a38fb74 100644
--- a/packages/types/src/span.ts
+++ b/packages/types/src/span.ts
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ export enum SpanStatus {
   /** The operation completed successfully. */
   Ok = 'ok',
   /** Deadline expired before operation could complete. */
-  DealineExceeded = 'deadline_exceeded',
+  DeadlineExceeded = 'deadline_exceeded',
   /** 401 Unauthorized (actually does mean unauthenticated according to RFC 7235) */
   Unauthenticated = 'unauthenticated',
   /** 403 Forbidden */
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ export namespace SpanStatus {
         case 503:
           return SpanStatus.Unavailable;
         case 504:
-          return SpanStatus.DealineExceeded;
+          return SpanStatus.DeadlineExceeded;
         default:
           return SpanStatus.InternalError;
       }