diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cd5b4094400..c7058d2efd8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # Unreleased
 
 * Feat: Add option to ignore exceptions by type (#1352)
-* Fix: Fix NPE when MDC contains null values (#1364)
+* Fix: Fix NPE when MDC contains null values (sentry-logback) (#1364)
+* Fix: Avoid NPE when MDC contains null values (sentry-jul) (#1385)
 * Feat: Sentry closes Android NDK and ShutdownHook integrations (#1358)
 * Enhancement: Allow inheritance of SentryHandler class in sentry-jul package(#1367)
 * Fix: Accept only non null value maps (#1368)
diff --git a/sentry-jul/src/main/java/io/sentry/jul/SentryHandler.java b/sentry-jul/src/main/java/io/sentry/jul/SentryHandler.java
index 564d0834b58..97676815b72 100644
--- a/sentry-jul/src/main/java/io/sentry/jul/SentryHandler.java
+++ b/sentry-jul/src/main/java/io/sentry/jul/SentryHandler.java
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 import io.sentry.SentryOptions;
 import io.sentry.protocol.Message;
 import io.sentry.protocol.SdkVersion;
-import io.sentry.util.CollectionUtils;
 import java.text.MessageFormat;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Date;
@@ -20,6 +19,7 @@
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.LogManager;
 import java.util.logging.LogRecord;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.TestOnly;
@@ -185,10 +185,15 @@ SentryEvent createEvent(final @NotNull LogRecord record) {
     if (throwable != null) {
       event.setThrowable(throwable);
     }
-    final Map<String, String> mdcProperties =
-        CollectionUtils.shallowCopy(MDC.getMDCAdapter().getCopyOfContextMap());
-    if (mdcProperties != null && !mdcProperties.isEmpty()) {
-      event.getContexts().put("MDC", mdcProperties);
+    Map<String, String> mdcProperties = MDC.getMDCAdapter().getCopyOfContextMap();
+    if (mdcProperties != null) {
+      mdcProperties =
+          mdcProperties.entrySet().stream()
+              .filter(it -> it.getValue() != null)
+              .collect(Collectors.toMap(Map.Entry::getKey, Map.Entry::getValue));
+      if (!mdcProperties.isEmpty()) {
+        event.getContexts().put("MDC", mdcProperties);
+      }
     }
     event.setExtra(THREAD_ID, record.getThreadID());
     return event;
diff --git a/sentry-jul/src/test/kotlin/io/sentry/jul/SentryHandlerTest.kt b/sentry-jul/src/test/kotlin/io/sentry/jul/SentryHandlerTest.kt
index 622c409d5d5..f69390c9d5b 100644
--- a/sentry-jul/src/test/kotlin/io/sentry/jul/SentryHandlerTest.kt
+++ b/sentry-jul/src/test/kotlin/io/sentry/jul/SentryHandlerTest.kt
@@ -287,6 +287,19 @@ class SentryHandlerTest {
         }
     }
 
+    @Test
+    fun `ignore set tags with null values from MDC`() {
+        fixture = Fixture(minimumEventLevel = Level.WARNING)
+        MDC.put("key", null)
+        fixture.logger.warning("testing MDC tags")
+
+        await.untilAsserted {
+            verify(fixture.transport).send(checkEvent { event ->
+                assertFalse(event.contexts.containsKey("MDC"))
+            }, anyOrNull())
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test
     fun `does not create MDC context when no MDC tags are set`() {
         fixture = Fixture(minimumEventLevel = Level.WARNING)