diff --git a/Server/api/recoverer_otel_test.go b/Server/api/recoverer_otel_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b001ceee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Server/api/recoverer_otel_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+//go:build otel
+
+package api
+
+// OC-0346: the recovered-panic log record must carry the request's trace_id.
+// Only the otel build can produce one (telemetry_default.go's
+// TraceIDFromContext is hard-wired to ""), so this file is tagged and CI's
+// untagged test run does not see it. Run it with
+//
+//	go test -tags otel -count=1 -run TestRecoverer_PanicLogCarriesTraceID ./api/
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"log/slog"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/go-chi/chi/v5"
+
+	"github.com/J3vb/OwnCord/Server/config"
+	"github.com/J3vb/OwnCord/Server/telemetry"
+)
+
+// TestRecoverer_PanicLogCarriesTraceID drives a panicking handler through the
+// real routerMiddleware stack with tracing on and asserts the panic record
+// carries the span's trace id. Before the fix recoverer was mounted ahead of
+// telemetry.HTTPMiddleware, so it captured the trace id from a context that
+// had no span yet and the attribute was always dropped.
+func TestRecoverer_PanicLogCarriesTraceID(t *testing.T) {
+	shutdown, err := telemetry.Init(context.Background(), config.TelemetryConfig{
+		Enabled:     true,
+		Exporter:    "prometheus", // a real tracer provider, no network exporter
+		ServiceName: "recoverer-test",
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("telemetry.Init: %v", err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = shutdown(context.Background()) })
+
+	var logs bytes.Buffer
+	prev := slog.Default()
+	slog.SetDefault(slog.New(slog.NewJSONHandler(&logs, nil)))
+	t.Cleanup(func() { slog.SetDefault(prev) })
+
+	r := chi.NewRouter()
+	routerMiddleware(r, &config.Config{})
+	r.Get("/boom", func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) { panic("boom") })
+
+	rr := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	r.ServeHTTP(rr, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/boom", nil))
+	if rr.Code != http.StatusInternalServerError {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %d, want 500 (panic not recovered)", rr.Code)
+	}
+
+	var rec map[string]any
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(logs.String()), "\n") {
+		var m map[string]any
+		if json.Unmarshal([]byte(line), &m) == nil && m["msg"] == "http handler panic recovered" {
+			rec = m
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	if rec == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("no recovered-panic record in logs:\n%s", logs.String())
+	}
+	traceID, _ := rec["trace_id"].(string)
+	if !regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9a-f]{32}$`).MatchString(traceID) {
+		t.Fatalf("panic record trace_id = %q, want the span's 32-hex trace id; record = %v", traceID, rec)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/Server/api/router.go b/Server/api/router.go
index dd877001..ddcb417b 100644
--- a/Server/api/router.go
+++ b/Server/api/router.go
@@ -271,7 +271,8 @@ func routerHealthDeps(cfg *config.Config, database *db.DB, getOnlineUsers *func(
 }
 
 // routerMiddleware installs NewRouter's global middleware stack. The order is a
-// security property (request-id binding before the logger reads it, security
+// security property (request-id binding before the logger reads it, tracing
+// before panic recovery so the panic log carries the trace id, security
 // headers and the body cap before any handler runs) — keep it exactly as
 // written.
 func routerMiddleware(r chi.Router, cfg *config.Config) {
@@ -282,12 +283,14 @@ func routerMiddleware(r chi.Router, cfg *config.Config) {
 	// NOTE: middleware.RealIP is intentionally omitted — trusting X-Real-IP from
 	// any source allows IP spoofing for rate-limit bypass. IP header trust is now
 	// handled explicitly in clientIPWithProxies using the trusted_proxies config.
-	r.Use(recoverer)     // slog-routing panic recovery (replaces chi's stderr-only Recoverer)
-	r.Use(requestLogger) // structured request/response logging
 	// Phase B Step 8 — OpenTelemetry HTTP tracing. No-op when telemetry is
 	// disabled or the otel build tag is not set, so this is safe to mount
-	// unconditionally.
+	// unconditionally. Mounted ahead of recoverer, which snapshots the trace
+	// id before dispatch: the span must already exist for the panic record to
+	// carry trace_id (OC-0346).
 	r.Use(telemetry.HTTPMiddleware())
+	r.Use(recoverer)     // slog-routing panic recovery (replaces chi's stderr-only Recoverer)
+	r.Use(requestLogger) // structured request/response logging
 	r.Use(SecurityHeadersWithTLS(cfg.TLS.Mode))
 	r.Use(MaxBodySizeUnless(defaultMaxBodySize, bodyCapExemptPrefixes...))