diff --git a/sentry-core/src/performance/headers.rs b/sentry-core/src/performance/headers.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..84666556
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sentry-core/src/performance/headers.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+//! Module containing utilities for interacting with Sentry tracing headers.
+
+use crate::protocol;
+
+/// A container for distributed tracing metadata that can be extracted from e.g. the `sentry-trace`
+/// HTTP header.
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Clone, Copy, Default)]
+pub struct SentryTrace {
+    pub(crate) trace_id: protocol::TraceId,
+    pub(crate) span_id: protocol::SpanId,
+    pub(crate) sampled: Option<bool>,
+}
+
+impl SentryTrace {
+    /// Creates a new [`SentryTrace`] from the provided parameters
+    pub fn new(
+        trace_id: protocol::TraceId,
+        span_id: protocol::SpanId,
+        sampled: Option<bool>,
+    ) -> Self {
+        SentryTrace {
+            trace_id,
+            span_id,
+            sampled,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn parse_sentry_trace(header: &str) -> Option<SentryTrace> {
+    let header = header.trim();
+    let mut parts = header.splitn(3, '-');
+
+    let trace_id = parts.next()?.parse().ok()?;
+    let parent_span_id = parts.next()?.parse().ok()?;
+    let parent_sampled = parts.next().and_then(|sampled| match sampled {
+        "1" => Some(true),
+        "0" => Some(false),
+        _ => None,
+    });
+
+    Some(SentryTrace::new(trace_id, parent_span_id, parent_sampled))
+}
+
+impl std::fmt::Display for SentryTrace {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        write!(f, "{}-{}", self.trace_id, self.span_id)?;
+        if let Some(sampled) = self.sampled {
+            write!(f, "-{}", if sampled { '1' } else { '0' })?;
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+/// Extracts distributed tracing metadata from headers (or, generally, key-value pairs),
+/// considering the values for `sentry-trace`.
+pub fn parse<'a, I: IntoIterator<Item = (&'a str, &'a str)>>(headers: I) -> Option<SentryTrace> {
+    let mut trace = None;
+    for (k, v) in headers.into_iter() {
+        if k.eq_ignore_ascii_case("sentry-trace") {
+            trace = parse_sentry_trace(v);
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+    trace
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use std::str::FromStr as _;
+
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn parses_sentry_trace() {
+        let trace_id = protocol::TraceId::from_str("09e04486820349518ac7b5d2adbf6ba5").unwrap();
+        let parent_trace_id = protocol::SpanId::from_str("9cf635fa5b870b3a").unwrap();
+
+        let trace = parse_sentry_trace("09e04486820349518ac7b5d2adbf6ba5-9cf635fa5b870b3a-0");
+        assert_eq!(
+            trace,
+            Some(SentryTrace::new(trace_id, parent_trace_id, Some(false)))
+        );
+
+        let trace = SentryTrace::new(Default::default(), Default::default(), None);
+        let parsed = parse_sentry_trace(&trace.to_string());
+        assert_eq!(parsed, Some(trace));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sentry-core/src/performance.rs b/sentry-core/src/performance/mod.rs
similarity index 94%
rename from sentry-core/src/performance.rs
rename to sentry-core/src/performance/mod.rs
index ae6056e0..a790b32f 100644
--- a/sentry-core/src/performance.rs
+++ b/sentry-core/src/performance/mod.rs
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ use crate::{protocol, Hub};
 #[cfg(feature = "client")]
 use crate::Client;
 
+pub use self::headers::{parse as parse_headers, SentryTrace};
+
+mod headers;
+
 #[cfg(feature = "client")]
 const MAX_SPANS: usize = 1_000;
 
@@ -1250,93 +1254,12 @@ impl Iterator for TraceHeadersIter {
     }
 }
 
-/// A container for distributed tracing metadata that can be extracted from e.g. the `sentry-trace`
-/// HTTP header.
-#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Clone, Copy, Default)]
-pub struct SentryTrace {
-    pub(crate) trace_id: protocol::TraceId,
-    pub(crate) span_id: protocol::SpanId,
-    pub(crate) sampled: Option<bool>,
-}
-
-impl SentryTrace {
-    /// Creates a new [`SentryTrace`] from the provided parameters
-    pub fn new(
-        trace_id: protocol::TraceId,
-        span_id: protocol::SpanId,
-        sampled: Option<bool>,
-    ) -> Self {
-        SentryTrace {
-            trace_id,
-            span_id,
-            sampled,
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-fn parse_sentry_trace(header: &str) -> Option<SentryTrace> {
-    let header = header.trim();
-    let mut parts = header.splitn(3, '-');
-
-    let trace_id = parts.next()?.parse().ok()?;
-    let parent_span_id = parts.next()?.parse().ok()?;
-    let parent_sampled = parts.next().and_then(|sampled| match sampled {
-        "1" => Some(true),
-        "0" => Some(false),
-        _ => None,
-    });
-
-    Some(SentryTrace::new(trace_id, parent_span_id, parent_sampled))
-}
-
-/// Extracts distributed tracing metadata from headers (or, generally, key-value pairs),
-/// considering the values for `sentry-trace`.
-pub fn parse_headers<'a, I: IntoIterator<Item = (&'a str, &'a str)>>(
-    headers: I,
-) -> Option<SentryTrace> {
-    let mut trace = None;
-    for (k, v) in headers.into_iter() {
-        if k.eq_ignore_ascii_case("sentry-trace") {
-            trace = parse_sentry_trace(v);
-            break;
-        }
-    }
-    trace
-}
-
-impl std::fmt::Display for SentryTrace {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
-        write!(f, "{}-{}", self.trace_id, self.span_id)?;
-        if let Some(sampled) = self.sampled {
-            write!(f, "-{}", if sampled { '1' } else { '0' })?;
-        }
-        Ok(())
-    }
-}
-
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    use std::str::FromStr;
     use std::sync::Arc;
 
     use super::*;
 
-    #[test]
-    fn parses_sentry_trace() {
-        let trace_id = protocol::TraceId::from_str("09e04486820349518ac7b5d2adbf6ba5").unwrap();
-        let parent_trace_id = protocol::SpanId::from_str("9cf635fa5b870b3a").unwrap();
-
-        let trace = parse_sentry_trace("09e04486820349518ac7b5d2adbf6ba5-9cf635fa5b870b3a-0");
-        assert_eq!(
-            trace,
-            Some(SentryTrace::new(trace_id, parent_trace_id, Some(false)))
-        );
-
-        let trace = SentryTrace::new(Default::default(), Default::default(), None);
-        let parsed = parse_sentry_trace(&trace.to_string());
-        assert_eq!(parsed, Some(trace));
-    }
-
     #[test]
     fn disabled_forwards_trace_id() {
         let headers = [(
@@ -1349,7 +1272,7 @@ mod tests {
         let span = trx.start_child("noop", "noop");
 
         let header = span.iter_headers().next().unwrap().1;
-        let parsed = parse_sentry_trace(&header).unwrap();
+        let parsed = parse_headers([("sentry-trace", header.as_str())]).unwrap();
 
         assert_eq!(
             &parsed.trace_id.to_string(),