diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e69d2da9ca9..c5a0d36dedd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Unreleased
 
 * Feat: Add option to ignore exceptions by type (#1352)
+* Fix: Fix NPE when MDC contains null values (#1364)
 * Feat: Sentry closes Android NDK and ShutdownHook integrations (#1358)
 * Fix: Accept only non null value maps (#1368)
 
diff --git a/sentry-logback/src/main/java/io/sentry/logback/SentryAppender.java b/sentry-logback/src/main/java/io/sentry/logback/SentryAppender.java
index 1dc24b96be4..200c70cfe0a 100644
--- a/sentry-logback/src/main/java/io/sentry/logback/SentryAppender.java
+++ b/sentry-logback/src/main/java/io/sentry/logback/SentryAppender.java
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 import io.sentry.SentryOptions;
 import io.sentry.protocol.Message;
 import io.sentry.protocol.SdkVersion;
-import io.sentry.util.CollectionUtils;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -91,8 +90,11 @@ protected void append(@NotNull ILoggingEvent eventObject) {
       event.setExtra("thread_name", loggingEvent.getThreadName());
     }
 
+    // remove keys with null values, there is no sense to send these keys to Sentry
     final Map<String, String> mdcProperties =
-        CollectionUtils.shallowCopy(loggingEvent.getMDCPropertyMap());
+        loggingEvent.getMDCPropertyMap().entrySet().stream()
+            .filter(it -> it.getValue() != null)
+            .collect(Collectors.toMap(Map.Entry::getKey, Map.Entry::getValue));
     if (!mdcProperties.isEmpty()) {
       event.getContexts().put("MDC", mdcProperties);
     }
diff --git a/sentry-logback/src/test/kotlin/io/sentry/logback/SentryAppenderTest.kt b/sentry-logback/src/test/kotlin/io/sentry/logback/SentryAppenderTest.kt
index f8ed059ceb4..a4baadcf951 100644
--- a/sentry-logback/src/test/kotlin/io/sentry/logback/SentryAppenderTest.kt
+++ b/sentry-logback/src/test/kotlin/io/sentry/logback/SentryAppenderTest.kt
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import kotlin.test.Test
 import kotlin.test.assertEquals
 import kotlin.test.assertFalse
 import kotlin.test.assertNotNull
+import kotlin.test.assertNull
 import kotlin.test.assertTrue
 import org.awaitility.kotlin.await
 import org.slf4j.Logger
@@ -204,6 +205,20 @@ class SentryAppenderTest {
         }
     }
 
+    @Test
+    fun `ignore set tags with null values from MDC`() {
+        fixture = Fixture(minimumEventLevel = Level.WARN)
+        MDC.put("key1", null)
+        MDC.put("key2", null)
+        fixture.logger.warn("testing MDC tags")
+
+        await.untilAsserted {
+            verify(fixture.transport).send(checkEvent { event ->
+                assertNull(event.contexts["MDC"])
+            }, anyOrNull())
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test
     fun `does not create MDC context when no MDC tags are set`() {
         fixture = Fixture(minimumEventLevel = Level.WARN)