diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b342db44..ec08d0a8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Various fixes & improvements
+
+- Set SENTRY_PIPELINE environment variable for all sentry-cli invocations ([#1036](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-android-gradle-plugin/pull/1036))
+
 ### Dependencies
 
 - Bump Android SDK from v8.26.0 to v8.27.1 ([#1032](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-android-gradle-plugin/pull/1032))
diff --git a/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/tasks/SentryCliExecTask.kt b/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/tasks/SentryCliExecTask.kt
index 74763242..aaa331f0 100644
--- a/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/tasks/SentryCliExecTask.kt
+++ b/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/tasks/SentryCliExecTask.kt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package io.sentry.android.gradle.tasks
 import io.sentry.android.gradle.SentryCliProvider
 import io.sentry.android.gradle.telemetry.SentryTelemetryService
 import io.sentry.android.gradle.util.info
+import io.sentry.android.gradle.util.setSentryPipelineEnv
 import java.io.File
 import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os
 import org.gradle.api.file.RegularFileProperty
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ abstract class SentryCliExecTask : Exec() {
     }
     setSentryPropertiesEnv()
     setSentryAuthTokenEnv()
+    setSentryPipelineEnv()
     super.exec()
   }
 
diff --git a/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/telemetry/SentryTelemetryService.kt b/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/telemetry/SentryTelemetryService.kt
index bd537f72..c8ec976e 100644
--- a/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/telemetry/SentryTelemetryService.kt
+++ b/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/telemetry/SentryTelemetryService.kt
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import io.sentry.android.gradle.util.SentryCliException
 import io.sentry.android.gradle.util.error
 import io.sentry.android.gradle.util.getBuildServiceName
 import io.sentry.android.gradle.util.info
+import io.sentry.android.gradle.util.setSentryPipelineEnv
 import io.sentry.exception.ExceptionMechanismException
 import io.sentry.gradle.common.SentryVariant
 import io.sentry.protocol.Mechanism
@@ -449,6 +450,8 @@ abstract class SentryCliInfoValueSource : ValueSource<String, InfoParams> {
           it.environment("SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN", authToken)
         }
 
+        it.setSentryPipelineEnv()
+
         it.commandLine(args)
         it.standardOutput = stdOutput
         it.errorOutput = errOutput
@@ -491,6 +494,8 @@ abstract class SentryCliVersionValueSource : ValueSource<String, VersionParams>
       args.add("--log-level=error")
       args.add("--version")
 
+      it.setSentryPipelineEnv()
+
       it.commandLine(args)
       it.standardOutput = output
     }
diff --git a/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/util/SentryCliExec.kt b/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/util/SentryCliExec.kt
index efc9c226..55a25fec 100644
--- a/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/util/SentryCliExec.kt
+++ b/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/util/SentryCliExec.kt
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
 package io.sentry.android.gradle.util
 
+import io.sentry.BuildConfig
 import io.sentry.android.gradle.util.CliFailureReason.OUTDATED
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream
 import org.gradle.api.GradleException
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.Exec
+import org.gradle.process.ExecSpec
+
+fun ExecSpec.setSentryPipelineEnv() {
+  environment("SENTRY_PIPELINE", "sentry-gradle-plugin/${BuildConfig.Version}")
+}
 
 /**
  * An ext function for tasks that wrap sentry-cli, which provides common error handling. Must be