diff --git a/packages/next/src/trace/trace-uploader.ts b/packages/next/src/trace/trace-uploader.ts
index 8634ca41965393..5fe90217871fd0 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/trace/trace-uploader.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/trace/trace-uploader.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ import { createInterface } from 'readline'
 import { createReadStream } from 'fs'
 import path from 'path'
 
+// Predefined set of the event names to be included in the trace.
+// If the trace span's name matches to one of the event names in the set,
+// it'll up uploaded to the trace server.
 const EVENT_FILTER = new Set([
   'client-hmr-latency',
   'hot-reloader',
@@ -16,7 +19,16 @@ const EVENT_FILTER = new Set([
   'webpack-invalidated-server',
 ])
 
-const { NEXT_TRACE_UPLOAD_DEBUG } = process.env
+const {
+  NEXT_TRACE_UPLOAD_DEBUG,
+  // An external env to allow to upload full trace without picking up the relavant spans.
+  // This is mainly for the debugging purpose, to allwo manual audit for full trace for the given build.
+  // [NOTE] This may fail if build is large and generated trace is excessively large.
+  NEXT_TRACE_UPLOAD_FULL,
+} = process.env
+
+const isDebugEnabled = !!NEXT_TRACE_UPLOAD_DEBUG || !!NEXT_TRACE_UPLOAD_FULL
+const shouldUploadFullTrace = !!NEXT_TRACE_UPLOAD_FULL
 
 const [, , traceUploadUrl, mode, _isTurboSession, projectDir, distDir] =
   process.argv
@@ -78,6 +90,7 @@ interface TraceMetadata {
       if (
         // Always include root spans
         event.parentId === undefined ||
+        shouldUploadFullTrace ||
         EVENT_FILTER.has(event.name)
       ) {
         if (
@@ -114,7 +127,7 @@ interface TraceMetadata {
     traces: [...traces.values()],
   }
 
-  if (NEXT_TRACE_UPLOAD_DEBUG) {
+  if (isDebugEnabled) {
     console.log('Sending request with body', JSON.stringify(body, null, 2))
   }
 
@@ -126,7 +139,7 @@ interface TraceMetadata {
     body: JSON.stringify(body),
   })
 
-  if (NEXT_TRACE_UPLOAD_DEBUG) {
+  if (isDebugEnabled) {
     console.log('Received response', res.status, await res.json())
   }
 })()