diff --git a/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry-ruby.rb b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry-ruby.rb
index c3577d0f0..c1d48db69 100644
--- a/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry-ruby.rb
+++ b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry-ruby.rb
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 require "sentry/background_worker"
 require "sentry/session_flusher"
 require "sentry/cron/monitor_check_ins"
+require "sentry/spotlight"
 
 [
   "sentry/rake",
diff --git a/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/configuration.rb b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/configuration.rb
index 1f89f31a3..865d3bc05 100644
--- a/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/configuration.rb
+++ b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/configuration.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 require "sentry/dsn"
 require "sentry/release_detector"
 require "sentry/transport/configuration"
+require "sentry/spotlight/configuration"
 require "sentry/linecache"
 require "sentry/interfaces/stacktrace_builder"
 
@@ -234,6 +235,10 @@ def capture_exception_frame_locals=(value)
     # @return [Boolean, nil]
     attr_reader :enable_tracing
 
+    # Returns the Spotlight::Configuration object
+    # @return [Spotlight::Configuration]
+    attr_reader :spotlight
+
     # Send diagnostic client reports about dropped events, true by default
     # tries to attach to an existing envelope max once every 30s
     # @return [Boolean]
@@ -358,6 +363,8 @@ def initialize
       @transport = Transport::Configuration.new
       @gem_specs = Hash[Gem::Specification.map { |spec| [spec.name, spec.version.to_s] }] if Gem::Specification.respond_to?(:map)
 
+      @spotlight = Spotlight::Configuration.new
+
       run_post_initialization_callbacks
     end
 
diff --git a/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/spotlight.rb b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/spotlight.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fef97affd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/spotlight.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+require "sentry/spotlight/configuration"
+require "sentry/spotlight/transport"
diff --git a/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/spotlight/configuration.rb b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/spotlight/configuration.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..294cc14d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/spotlight/configuration.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+module Sentry
+  module Spotlight
+    # Sentry Spotlight configuration.
+    class Configuration
+
+      # When enabled, Sentry will send all events and traces to the provided 
+      # Spotlight Sidecar URL.
+      # Defaults to false.
+      # @return [Boolean]
+      attr_reader :enabled
+      
+      # Spotlight Sidecar URL as a String.
+      # Defaults to "http://localhost:8969/stream"
+      # @return [String]
+      attr_accessor :sidecar_url
+      
+      def initialize
+        @enabled = false
+        @sidecar_url = "http://localhost:8969/stream"
+      end
+
+      def enabled?
+        enabled
+      end
+
+      # Enables or disables Spotlight.
+      def enabled=(value)
+        unless [true, false].include?(value)
+         raise ArgumentError, "Spotlight config.enabled must be a boolean"
+        end
+
+        if value == true
+          unless ['development', 'test'].include?(environment_from_env)
+            # Using the default logger here for a one-off warning.
+            ::Sentry::Logger.new(STDOUT).warn("[Spotlight] Spotlight is enabled in a non-development environment!")
+          end
+        end
+      end
+
+      private
+
+      # TODO: Sentry::Configuration already reads the env the same way as below, but it also has a way to _set_ environment
+      # in it's config. So this introduces a bug where env could be different, depending on whether the user set the environment
+      # manually.
+      def environment_from_env
+        ENV['SENTRY_CURRENT_ENV'] || ENV['SENTRY_ENVIRONMENT'] || ENV['RAILS_ENV'] || ENV['RACK_ENV'] || 'development'
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/spotlight/transport.rb b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/spotlight/transport.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8aba4970d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/spotlight/transport.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+require "net/http"
+require "zlib"
+
+module Sentry
+  module Spotlight
+
+
+    # Spotlight Transport class is like HTTPTransport,
+    # but it's experimental, with limited featureset. 
+    # - It does not care about rate limits, assuming working with local Sidecar proxy
+    # - Designed to just report events to Spotlight in development.
+    #  
+    # TODO: This needs a cleanup, we could extract most of common code into a module.
+    class Transport
+
+      GZIP_ENCODING = "gzip"
+      GZIP_THRESHOLD = 1024 * 30
+      CONTENT_TYPE = 'application/x-sentry-envelope'
+      USER_AGENT = "sentry-ruby/#{Sentry::VERSION}"
+      
+      # Initialize a new Spotlight transport
+      # with the provided Spotlight configuration.
+      def initialize(spotlight_configuration)
+        @configuration = spotlight_configuration
+      end
+
+      def send_data(data)
+        encoding = ""
+
+        if should_compress?(data)
+          data = Zlib.gzip(data)
+          encoding = GZIP_ENCODING
+        end
+  
+        headers = {
+          'Content-Type' => CONTENT_TYPE,
+          'Content-Encoding' => encoding,
+          'X-Sentry-Auth' => generate_auth_header,
+          'User-Agent' => USER_AGENT
+        }
+  
+        response = conn.start do |http|
+          request = ::Net::HTTP::Post.new(@configuration.sidecar_url, headers)
+          request.body = data
+          http.request(request)
+        end
+  
+        unless response.code.match?(/\A2\d{2}/)
+          error_info = "the server responded with status #{response.code}"
+          error_info += "\nbody: #{response.body}"
+          error_info += " Error in headers is: #{response['x-sentry-error']}" if response['x-sentry-error']
+  
+          raise Sentry::ExternalError, error_info
+        end
+      rescue SocketError => e
+        raise Sentry::ExternalError.new(e.message)
+      end
+
+      private
+
+      def should_compress?(data)
+        @transport_configuration.encoding == GZIP_ENCODING && data.bytesize >= GZIP_THRESHOLD
+      end
+
+      # Similar to HTTPTransport connection, but does not support Proxy and SSL 
+      def conn
+        sidecar = URL(@configuration.sidecar_url)
+        connection = ::Net::HTTP.new(sidecar.hostname, sidecar.port, nil)
+        connection.use_ssl = false
+        connection
+      end
+      
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/transport.rb b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/transport.rb
index 2b786af78..686ba2dc2 100644
--- a/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/transport.rb
+++ b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/transport.rb
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ class Transport
     def initialize(configuration)
       @logger = configuration.logger
       @transport_configuration = configuration.transport
+      @spotlight_configuration = configuration.spotlight
       @dsn = configuration.dsn
       @rate_limits = {}
       @send_client_reports = configuration.send_client_reports
diff --git a/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/transport/http_transport.rb b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/transport/http_transport.rb
index 4b1fa1771..937dd1162 100644
--- a/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/transport/http_transport.rb
+++ b/sentry-ruby/lib/sentry/transport/http_transport.rb
@@ -29,9 +29,15 @@ def initialize(*args)
       @endpoint = @dsn.envelope_endpoint
 
       log_debug("Sentry HTTP Transport will connect to #{@dsn.server}")
+
+      if @spotlight_configuration.enabled?
+        @spotlight_transport = Sentry::Spotlight::Transport.new(@transport_configuration)
+      end
     end
 
     def send_data(data)
+      @spotlight_transport.send_data(data) unless @spotlight_transport.nil?
+
       encoding = ""
 
       if should_compress?(data)
diff --git a/sentry-ruby/spec/sentry/configuration_spec.rb b/sentry-ruby/spec/sentry/configuration_spec.rb
index 5e4beb7ee..742532263 100644
--- a/sentry-ruby/spec/sentry/configuration_spec.rb
+++ b/sentry-ruby/spec/sentry/configuration_spec.rb
@@ -256,6 +256,14 @@
     end
   end
 
+  describe "#spotlight" do
+    it "returns initialized Spotlight config by default" do
+      spotlight_config = subject.spotlight
+      expect(spotlight_config.enabled).to eq(false)
+      expect(spotlight_config.sidecar_url).to eq("http://localhost:8969/stream")
+    end
+  end
+
   context 'configuring for async' do
     it 'should be configurable to send events async' do
       subject.async = ->(_e) { :ok }
diff --git a/sentry-ruby/spec/sentry/transport/http_transport_spec.rb b/sentry-ruby/spec/sentry/transport/http_transport_spec.rb
index bf342e356..27b7c85c6 100644
--- a/sentry-ruby/spec/sentry/transport/http_transport_spec.rb
+++ b/sentry-ruby/spec/sentry/transport/http_transport_spec.rb
@@ -321,4 +321,33 @@
       end
     end
   end
+
+  describe "Spotlight integration" do
+    let(:fake_response) { build_fake_response("200") }
+    context "when spotlight is enabled" do
+      let(:spotlight_transport) { Sentry::Spotlight::Transport.new(configuration.spotlight) }
+
+      it "calls @spotlight_transport.send_data(data)" do
+        configuration.spotlight.enabled = true
+
+        stub_request(fake_response)
+
+        subject.instance_variable_set(:@spotlight_transport, spotlight_transport)
+        expect( spotlight_transport ).to receive(:send_data).with(data)
+        subject.send_data(data)
+      end
+    end
+
+    context "when spotlight integration is disabled" do
+      let(:spotlight_transport) { nil } 
+      it "does not call @spotlight_transport.send_data(data)" do
+        configuration.spotlight.enabled = false
+
+        stub_request(fake_response)
+
+        expect( spotlight_transport ).not_to receive(:send_data).with(data)
+        subject.send_data(data)
+      end
+    end
+  end
 end