diff --git a/backend/app/celery/celery_app.py b/backend/app/celery/celery_app.py
index 2500947c8..2448e2913 100644
--- a/backend/app/celery/celery_app.py
+++ b/backend/app/celery/celery_app.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 from celery import Celery
 from celery.signals import (
+    worker_init,
     task_failure,
     task_postrun,
     task_prerun,
@@ -16,6 +17,57 @@
 configure_logging(service_name="kaapi-celery")
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+_telemetry_initialized = False
+_sentry_initialized = False
+_flush_hook_registered = False
+
+
+def _initialize_worker_observability() -> None:
+    global _telemetry_initialized, _sentry_initialized, _flush_hook_registered
+
+    if settings.SENTRY_DSN and not _sentry_initialized:
+        import sentry_sdk
+        from sentry_sdk.integrations.celery import CeleryIntegration
+        from sentry_sdk.integrations.httpx import HttpxIntegration
+        from sentry_sdk.integrations.logging import LoggingIntegration
+        from sentry_sdk.integrations.sqlalchemy import SqlalchemyIntegration
+
+        sentry_sdk.init(
+            dsn=str(settings.SENTRY_DSN),
+            environment=settings.ENVIRONMENT,
+            release=settings.API_VERSION,
+            instrumenter="otel",
+            traces_sample_rate=1.0,
+            enable_logs=True,
+            before_send_transaction=before_send_transaction_filter,
+            integrations=[
+                LoggingIntegration(
+                    level=logging.INFO,
+                    sentry_logs_level=logging.INFO,
+                ),
+            ],
+            disabled_integrations=[
+                CeleryIntegration(),
+                SqlalchemyIntegration(),
+                HttpxIntegration(),
+            ],
+        )
+        _sentry_initialized = True
+
+    if not _telemetry_initialized:
+        from app.core.telemetry import flush_telemetry, setup_telemetry
+
+        setup_telemetry(service_name="kaapi-celery")
+
+        if not _flush_hook_registered:
+
+            @task_postrun.connect(weak=False)
+            def _flush_otel_after_task(**_: object) -> None:
+                flush_telemetry()
+
+            _flush_hook_registered = True
+
+        _telemetry_initialized = True
 
 
 @task_prerun.connect
@@ -84,43 +136,15 @@ def initialize_worker_process(**_) -> None:
     - Set up OpenTelemetry so Celery tasks emit spans bridged into Sentry.
     - Pre-import LLM modules so first-call latency doesn't pay a cold-import cost.
     """
-    if settings.SENTRY_DSN:
-        import sentry_sdk
-        from sentry_sdk.integrations.celery import CeleryIntegration
-        from sentry_sdk.integrations.httpx import HttpxIntegration
-        from sentry_sdk.integrations.logging import LoggingIntegration
-        from sentry_sdk.integrations.sqlalchemy import SqlalchemyIntegration
-
-        sentry_sdk.init(
-            dsn=str(settings.SENTRY_DSN),
-            environment=settings.ENVIRONMENT,
-            release=settings.API_VERSION,
-            instrumenter="otel",
-            traces_sample_rate=1.0,
-            enable_logs=True,
-            before_send_transaction=before_send_transaction_filter,
-            integrations=[
-                LoggingIntegration(
-                    level=logging.INFO,
-                    sentry_logs_level=logging.INFO,
-                ),
-            ],
-            disabled_integrations=[
-                CeleryIntegration(),
-                SqlalchemyIntegration(),
-                HttpxIntegration(),
-            ],
-        )
-
-    from app.core.telemetry import flush_telemetry, setup_telemetry
+    _initialize_worker_observability()
 
-    setup_telemetry(service_name="kaapi-celery")
+    import app.services.llm.jobs  # noqa: F401
 
-    @task_postrun.connect(weak=False)
-    def _flush_otel_after_task(**_: object) -> None:
-        flush_telemetry()
 
-    import app.services.llm.jobs  # noqa: F401
+@worker_init.connect
+def initialize_worker(**_) -> None:
+    """Initialize worker observability for non-prefork pools (e.g. gevent)."""
+    _initialize_worker_observability()
 
 
 # Create Celery instance
diff --git a/backend/app/core/sentry_filters.py b/backend/app/core/sentry_filters.py
index 07c6b9ef3..30bc60923 100644
--- a/backend/app/core/sentry_filters.py
+++ b/backend/app/core/sentry_filters.py
@@ -5,6 +5,42 @@
 _SQL_OR_CONNECT = re.compile(r"^(select|insert|update|delete|connect)\b", re.IGNORECASE)
 _HTTP_SEND_RECEIVE = re.compile(r"http (send|receive)$", re.IGNORECASE)
 _DB_QUERY_SPAN = re.compile(r"^db\.query$", re.IGNORECASE)
+_BARE_HTTP_METHOD = re.compile(r"^(GET|HEAD|OPTIONS)$", re.IGNORECASE)
+_NOISE_PATH = re.compile(
+    r"(^/health/?$|^/robots\.txt$|^/favicon\.ico$|^/wp-admin|^/wp-login|^/xmlrpc\.php$)",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+
+def _extract_path(event: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    request = event.get("request")
+    if not isinstance(request, dict):
+        return ""
+
+    url = request.get("url")
+    if isinstance(url, str) and url:
+        if "://" in url:
+            after_scheme = url.split("://", 1)[1]
+            if "/" in after_scheme:
+                return "/" + after_scheme.split("/", 1)[1].split("?", 1)[0]
+            return "/"
+        return url.split("?", 1)[0]
+    return ""
+
+
+def _should_drop_transaction(event: dict[str, Any]) -> bool:
+    transaction = str(event.get("transaction") or "").strip()
+    path = _extract_path(event)
+
+    # Sentry shows probe traffic as bare "GET"/"HEAD" transactions.
+    if _BARE_HTTP_METHOD.match(transaction):
+        return True
+
+    # Drop known non-app noise paths (probes / scanners).
+    if path and _NOISE_PATH.search(path):
+        return True
+
+    return False
 
 
 def before_send_transaction_filter(
@@ -18,6 +54,9 @@ def before_send_transaction_filter(
     - SQL / `connect` spans matched by description prefix
     - Custom DB query spans (`db.query`)
     """
+    if _should_drop_transaction(event):
+        return None
+
     spans = event.get("spans")
     if not isinstance(spans, list):
         return event