diff --git a/instrumentation/couchbase/couchbase-2.6/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/couchbase/v2_6/CouchbaseCoreInstrumentation.java b/instrumentation/couchbase/couchbase-2.6/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/couchbase/v2_6/CouchbaseCoreInstrumentation.java
index c49c32a92e5d..21868b89221a 100644
--- a/instrumentation/couchbase/couchbase-2.6/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/couchbase/v2_6/CouchbaseCoreInstrumentation.java
+++ b/instrumentation/couchbase/couchbase-2.6/javaagent/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/couchbase/v2_6/CouchbaseCoreInstrumentation.java
@@ -41,9 +41,8 @@ public void transform(TypeTransformer transformer) {
   @SuppressWarnings("unused")
   public static class CouchbaseCoreAdvice {
 
-    @Advice.OnMethodExit(suppress = Throwable.class)
+    @Advice.OnMethodEnter(suppress = Throwable.class)
     public static void addOperationIdToSpan(@Advice.Argument(0) CouchbaseRequest request) {
-
       VirtualField<CouchbaseRequest, CouchbaseRequestInfo> virtualField =
           VirtualField.find(CouchbaseRequest.class, CouchbaseRequestInfo.class);
       CouchbaseRequestInfo requestInfo = virtualField.get(request);