diff --git a/example/src/App.tsx b/example/src/App.tsx
index 897a1a3a8..e6e4ac694 100644
--- a/example/src/App.tsx
+++ b/example/src/App.tsx
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { createBottomTabNavigator } from '@react-navigation/bottom-tabs';
 import MainScreen from './screens/MainScreen';
 import ErrorScreen from './screens/ErrorScreen';
 import AboutScreen from './screens/AboutScreen';
+import TraceScreen from './screens/TraceScreen';
 import style from './screens/styles';
 import { navigationRef } from './NavigationRoot';
 import { DdRumReactNavigationTracking, NavigationTrackingOptions, ParamsTrackingPredicate, ViewNamePredicate, ViewTrackingPredicate } from '@datadog/mobile-react-navigation';
@@ -95,6 +96,7 @@ export default function App() {
             <Tab.Screen name="Home" component={MainScreen} />
             <Tab.Screen name="Error" component={ErrorScreen} />
             <Tab.Screen name="About" component={AboutScreen} />
+            <Tab.Screen name="Trace" component={TraceScreen} />
             <Tab.Screen name="Nested" component={NestedNavigator} />
           </Tab.Navigator>
         </NavigationContainer>
diff --git a/example/src/screens/TraceScreen.tsx b/example/src/screens/TraceScreen.tsx
index c291f1ead..a304f415a 100644
--- a/example/src/screens/TraceScreen.tsx
+++ b/example/src/screens/TraceScreen.tsx
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ import { useState } from 'react';
 import { View, Text, Button } from 'react-native';
 
 import styles from './styles';
-import { DdTrace } from '@datadog/mobile-react-native';
+import { DdTrace, InternalLog, SdkVerbosity } from '@datadog/mobile-react-native';
 
-const TraceScreen = props => {
+const TraceScreen = () => {
     const [spanIds, setSpanIds] = useState<string[]>([]);
 
     return (
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ const TraceScreen = props => {
                 title="Start Span"
                 onPress={async () => {
                     const newSpanId = await DdTrace.startSpan("span_operation_" +   Math.floor(100 + Math.random() * 900));
+                    InternalLog.log(`SpanId: ${newSpanId}`, SdkVerbosity.DEBUG);
                     spanIds.push(newSpanId);
                     setSpanIds(spanIds);
                 }}
diff --git a/packages/core/src/trace/DdTrace.ts b/packages/core/src/trace/DdTrace.ts
index 177b12b5e..72fe2375b 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/trace/DdTrace.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/trace/DdTrace.ts
@@ -37,10 +37,7 @@ class DdTraceWrapper implements DdTraceType {
                 timestampMs
             )
         );
-        InternalLog.log(
-            `Starting span “${operation}” #${spanId}`,
-            SdkVerbosity.DEBUG
-        );
+        InternalLog.log(`Starting span “${operation}”`, SdkVerbosity.DEBUG);
         return spanId;
     };