diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 075f1c0a57..7c088b4126 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   ([#2874](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/2874))
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-confluent-kafka` Fix to allow `topic` to be extracted from `kwargs` in `produce()` 
   ([#2901])(https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/2901)
+- `opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymongo` Fix type-related errors in certain usages of the PyMongo span `DB_MONGODB_COLLECTION` attribute and trace error status descriptions
+  ([#2010](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/2010))
 
 ### Breaking changes
 
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymongo/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pymongo/__init__.py b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymongo/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pymongo/__init__.py
index f55aa2be33..1059a769b6 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymongo/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pymongo/__init__.py
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pymongo/src/opentelemetry/instrumentation/pymongo/__init__.py
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ def started(self, event: monitoring.CommandStartedEvent):
                 )
                 span.set_attribute(SpanAttributes.DB_NAME, event.database_name)
                 span.set_attribute(SpanAttributes.DB_STATEMENT, statement)
-                if collection:
+                if collection and isinstance(collection, str):
                     span.set_attribute(
                         SpanAttributes.DB_MONGODB_COLLECTION, collection
                     )
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ def failed(self, event: monitoring.CommandFailedEvent):
         if span is None:
             return
         if span.is_recording():
-            span.set_status(Status(StatusCode.ERROR, event.failure))
+            span.set_status(Status(StatusCode.ERROR, str(event.failure)))
             try:
                 self.failed_hook(span, event)
             except (