diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/integrations.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/integrations.adoc
index 3cc5a4d1f..84537d5ba 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/integrations.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/integrations.adoc
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ In order to disable this instrumentation set `spring.sleuth.task.enabled` to `fa
 
 This feature is available for all tracer implementations.
 
-If you have Spring Tx on the classpath we will instrument the `PlatformTransactionManager` and the `ReactiveTransactionManager` to create a span whenever a new transaction is created.
+If you have Spring Tx on the classpath we will instrument the `PlatformTransactionManager` and the `ReactiveTransactionManager` to create a span whenever a new transaction is created. Due to technical constraints we will not instrument classes that extend Spring's `AbstractPlatformTransactionManager`.
 In order to disable this instrumentation set `spring.sleuth.tx.enabled` to `false`.
 
 [[sleuth-security-integration]]
diff --git a/spring-cloud-sleuth-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/sleuth/autoconfig/instrument/tx/PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenter.java b/spring-cloud-sleuth-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/sleuth/autoconfig/instrument/tx/PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenter.java
index 99501217e..9577c8db7 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-sleuth-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/sleuth/autoconfig/instrument/tx/PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenter.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-sleuth-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/sleuth/autoconfig/instrument/tx/PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenter.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package org.springframework.cloud.sleuth.autoconfig.instrument.tx;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanFactory;
 import org.springframework.cloud.sleuth.instrument.tx.TracePlatformTransactionManager;
 import org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager;
+import org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager;
 
 class PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenter
 		extends AbstractTransactionManagerInstrumenter<PlatformTransactionManager> {
@@ -27,6 +28,11 @@ class PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenter
 		super(beanFactory, PlatformTransactionManager.class);
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	boolean isApplicableForInstrumentation(Object bean) {
+		return super.isApplicableForInstrumentation(bean) && !(bean instanceof AbstractPlatformTransactionManager);
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	Class tracedClass() {
 		return TracePlatformTransactionManager.class;
diff --git a/spring-cloud-sleuth-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/sleuth/autoconfig/instrument/tx/PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenterTests.java b/spring-cloud-sleuth-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/sleuth/autoconfig/instrument/tx/PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenterTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..49d38af29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-cloud-sleuth-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/sleuth/autoconfig/instrument/tx/PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenterTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2013-2021 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.cloud.sleuth.autoconfig.instrument.tx;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import org.springframework.context.support.StaticApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.transaction.PlatformTransactionManager;
+import org.springframework.transaction.TransactionDefinition;
+import org.springframework.transaction.TransactionException;
+import org.springframework.transaction.TransactionStatus;
+import org.springframework.transaction.support.AbstractPlatformTransactionManager;
+import org.springframework.transaction.support.DefaultTransactionStatus;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.BDDAssertions.then;
+
+class PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenterTests {
+
+	@Test
+	void should_return_true_when_instruments_platform_transaction_manager() {
+		PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenter instrumenter = new PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenter(
+				new StaticApplicationContext());
+
+		then(instrumenter.isApplicableForInstrumentation(platformTransactionManager())).isTrue();
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	void should_return_false_when_instruments_abstract_platform_transaction_manager() {
+		PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenter instrumenter = new PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenter(
+				new StaticApplicationContext());
+
+		then(instrumenter.isApplicableForInstrumentation(abstractPlatformTransactionManager())).isFalse();
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	void should_return_false_when_instruments_non_platform_transaction_manager() {
+		PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenter instrumenter = new PlatformTransactionManagerInstrumenter(
+				new StaticApplicationContext());
+
+		then(instrumenter.isApplicableForInstrumentation("not platform transaction manager")).isFalse();
+	}
+
+	private PlatformTransactionManager platformTransactionManager() {
+		return new PlatformTransactionManager() {
+			@Override
+			public TransactionStatus getTransaction(TransactionDefinition definition) throws TransactionException {
+				return null;
+			}
+
+			@Override
+			public void commit(TransactionStatus status) throws TransactionException {
+
+			}
+
+			@Override
+			public void rollback(TransactionStatus status) throws TransactionException {
+
+			}
+		};
+	}
+
+	private PlatformTransactionManager abstractPlatformTransactionManager() {
+		return new AbstractPlatformTransactionManager() {
+			@Override
+			protected Object doGetTransaction() throws TransactionException {
+				return null;
+			}
+
+			@Override
+			protected void doBegin(Object transaction, TransactionDefinition definition) throws TransactionException {
+
+			}
+
+			@Override
+			protected void doCommit(DefaultTransactionStatus status) throws TransactionException {
+
+			}
+
+			@Override
+			protected void doRollback(DefaultTransactionStatus status) throws TransactionException {
+
+			}
+		};
+	}
+
+}