diff --git a/src/backend/src/services/repositories/DynamoKVStore/DynamoKVStore.ts b/src/backend/src/services/repositories/DynamoKVStore/DynamoKVStore.ts
index 13810ba52..92b802aff 100644
--- a/src/backend/src/services/repositories/DynamoKVStore/DynamoKVStore.ts
+++ b/src/backend/src/services/repositories/DynamoKVStore/DynamoKVStore.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import murmurhash from 'murmurhash';
 import { DDBClient } from '../DDBClient.js';
 import { PUTER_KV_STORE_TABLE_DEFINITION } from './tableDefinition.js';
 import APIError from '../../../api/APIError.js';
+import { Span } from '../../../util/otelutil.js';
 
 export class DynamoKVStore {
     static GLOBAL_APP_KEY = 'os-global';
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ export class DynamoKVStore {
         }
     }
 
+    @Span('kv:get')
     async get ({ key }: { key: string | string[]; }): Promise<unknown | null | (unknown | null)[]> {
         if ( key === '' ) {
             throw APIError.create('field_empty', null, {
@@ -138,6 +140,7 @@ export class DynamoKVStore {
 
     }
 
+    @Span('kv:set')
     async set ({ key, value, expireAt }: { key: string; value: unknown; expireAt?: number; }): Promise<boolean> {
 
         const context = Context.get();
@@ -171,6 +174,7 @@ export class DynamoKVStore {
         return true;
     }
 
+    @Span('kv:del')
     async del ({ key }: { key: string; }): Promise<boolean> {
         const actor = Context.get('actor');
 
@@ -267,6 +271,7 @@ export class DynamoKVStore {
         return trimmed;
     }
 
+    @Span('kv:list')
     async list ({
         as,
         limit,
@@ -364,6 +369,7 @@ export class DynamoKVStore {
         return items;
     }
 
+    @Span('kv:flush')
     async flush () {
         const actor = Context.get('actor');
 
@@ -407,6 +413,7 @@ export class DynamoKVStore {
         return !!allRes;
     }
 
+    @Span('kv:expireAt')
     async expireAt ({ key, timestamp }: { key: string; timestamp: number; }): Promise<void> {
         if ( key === '' ) {
             throw APIError.create('field_empty', null, {
@@ -419,6 +426,7 @@ export class DynamoKVStore {
         return await this.#expireAt(key, timestamp);
     }
 
+    @Span('kv:expire')
     async expire ({ key, ttl }: { key: string; ttl: number; }): Promise<void> {
         if ( key === '' ) {
             throw APIError.create('field_empty', null, {
@@ -521,6 +529,7 @@ export class DynamoKVStore {
     }
 
     // Ideally the paths support syntax like "a.b[2].c"
+    @Span('kv:incr')
     async incr<T extends Record<string, number>>({ key, pathAndAmountMap }: { key: string; pathAndAmountMap: T; }): Promise<T extends { '': number; } ? number : RecursiveRecord<number>> {
         if ( Object.values(pathAndAmountMap).find((v) => typeof v !== 'number') ) {
             throw new Error('All values in pathAndAmountMap must be numbers');
@@ -581,6 +590,11 @@ export class DynamoKVStore {
         return res.Attributes?.value;
     }
 
+    async decr<T extends Record<string, number>>({ key, pathAndAmountMap }: { key: string; pathAndAmountMap: T; }) {
+        return await this.incr({ key, pathAndAmountMap: Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(pathAndAmountMap).map(([k, v]) => [k, -v])) as T });
+    }
+
+    @Span('kv:add')
     async add ({ key, pathAndValueMap }: { key: string; pathAndValueMap: Record<string, unknown>; }): Promise<unknown> {
         if ( !pathAndValueMap || Object.keys(pathAndValueMap).length === 0 ) {
             throw new Error('invalid use of #add: no pathAndValueMap');
@@ -637,6 +651,7 @@ export class DynamoKVStore {
         return res.Attributes?.value;
     }
 
+    @Span('kv:remove')
     async remove ({ key, paths }: { key: string; paths: string[]; }): Promise<unknown> {
         if ( !paths || paths.length === 0 ) {
             throw new Error('invalid use of #remove: no paths');
@@ -698,6 +713,7 @@ export class DynamoKVStore {
         }
     }
 
+    @Span('kv:update')
     async update ({ key, pathAndValueMap, ttl }: { key: string; pathAndValueMap: Record<string, unknown>; ttl?: number; }): Promise<unknown> {
         if ( !pathAndValueMap || Object.keys(pathAndValueMap).length === 0 ) {
             throw new Error('invalid use of #update: no pathAndValueMap');
@@ -764,10 +780,6 @@ export class DynamoKVStore {
         return res.Attributes?.value;
     }
 
-    async decr<T extends Record<string, number>>({ key, pathAndAmountMap }: { key: string; pathAndAmountMap: T; }) {
-        return await this.incr({ key, pathAndAmountMap: Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(pathAndAmountMap).map(([k, v]) => [k, -v])) as T });
-    }
-
     async #expireAt (key: string, timestamp: number) {
 
         const actor = Context.get('actor');
diff --git a/src/backend/src/util/otelutil.js b/src/backend/src/util/otelutil.js
index 593bedeb8..7cf9406df 100644
--- a/src/backend/src/util/otelutil.js
+++ b/src/backend/src/util/otelutil.js
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ promises.push(tracer.startActiveSpan(`job:${job.id}`, (span) => {
 }));
 */
 
-const spanify = (label, fn, tracer) => async (...args) => {
+/** @type {<T extends Function>(label:string, fn:T, tracer?: unknown)=> T} */
+const spanify = (label, fn, tracer) => async function (...args) {
     const context = Context.get();
     if ( ! context ) {
         // We don't use the proper logger here because we would normally
@@ -53,12 +54,20 @@ const spanify = (label, fn, tracer) => async (...args) => {
     tracer = tracer ?? context.get('services').get('traceService').tracer;
     let result;
     await tracer.startActiveSpan(label, async span => {
-        result = await fn(...args);
+        // eslint-disable-next-line no-invalid-this
+        result = await fn.apply(this, args);
         span.end();
     });
     return result;
 };
 
+/** @type {(label: string, tracer?: unknown) => MethodDecorator} */
+const Span = (label, tracer) => (_target, _propertyKey, descriptor) => {
+    if ( !descriptor || typeof descriptor.value !== 'function' ) return descriptor;
+    descriptor.value = spanify(label, descriptor.value, tracer);
+    return descriptor;
+};
+
 const abtest = async (label, impls) => {
     const context = Context.get();
     if ( ! context ) {
@@ -150,5 +159,6 @@ class ParallelTasks {
 module.exports = {
     ParallelTasks,
     spanify,
+    Span,
     abtest,
 };
diff --git a/tsconfig.base.json b/tsconfig.base.json
index a133b43ec..8e4dc99dd 100644
--- a/tsconfig.base.json
+++ b/tsconfig.base.json
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     "module": "esnext",
     "moduleResolution": "bundler",
     "rootDir": "./src/backend",
+    "experimentalDecorators": true,
     "strict": true,
     "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
     "skipLibCheck": true,
@@ -12,4 +13,4 @@
     "noEmitOnError": true,
     "noImplicitAny": false
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}