diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ec31d4c5c4..fc532d31ee 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 **Features**:
 
+- Forward `enable_logs` option through `NdkOptions` so the Android SDK can enable native structured logging. ([#1971](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-native/pull/1971))
 - Report enabled Qt and WER integrations in event SDK metadata (`sdk.integrations`) alongside the configured crash backend. ([#1969](https://github.com/
   getsentry/sentry-native/pull/1969))
 
diff --git a/ndk/lib/api/sentry-native-ndk.api b/ndk/lib/api/sentry-native-ndk.api
index 35780f414e..79d8238114 100644
--- a/ndk/lib/api/sentry-native-ndk.api
+++ b/ndk/lib/api/sentry-native-ndk.api
@@ -101,8 +101,10 @@ public final class io/sentry/ndk/NdkOptions {
 	public fun getTracesSampleRate ()F
 	public fun isDebug ()Z
 	public fun isEnableAppHangTracking ()Z
+	public fun isEnableLogs ()Z
 	public fun setAppHangTimeoutMillis (J)V
 	public fun setEnableAppHangTracking (Z)V
+	public fun setEnableLogs (Z)V
 	public fun setNdkHandlerStrategy (Lio/sentry/ndk/NdkHandlerStrategy;)V
 	public fun setTracesSampleRate (F)V
 }
diff --git a/ndk/lib/src/main/java/io/sentry/ndk/NdkOptions.java b/ndk/lib/src/main/java/io/sentry/ndk/NdkOptions.java
index d8896367ea..41122e6acb 100644
--- a/ndk/lib/src/main/java/io/sentry/ndk/NdkOptions.java
+++ b/ndk/lib/src/main/java/io/sentry/ndk/NdkOptions.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ public final class NdkOptions {
   private float tracesSampleRate = 0;
   private boolean enableAppHangTracking = false;
   private long appHangTimeoutMillis = 5000;
+  private boolean enableLogs = false;
 
   public NdkOptions(
       @NotNull String dsn,
@@ -106,4 +107,12 @@ public void setAppHangTimeoutMillis(final long appHangTimeoutMillis) {
   public long getAppHangTimeoutMillis() {
     return appHangTimeoutMillis;
   }
+
+  public void setEnableLogs(final boolean enableLogs) {
+    this.enableLogs = enableLogs;
+  }
+
+  public boolean isEnableLogs() {
+    return enableLogs;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/ndk/lib/src/main/jni/sentry.c b/ndk/lib/src/main/jni/sentry.c
index 8235a77824..36516b9c8e 100644
--- a/ndk/lib/src/main/jni/sentry.c
+++ b/ndk/lib/src/main/jni/sentry.c
@@ -417,6 +417,9 @@ Java_io_sentry_ndk_SentryNdk_initSentryNative(
     jmethodID app_hang_timeout_mid = (*env)->GetMethodID(
         env, options_cls, "getAppHangTimeoutMillis", "()J");
 
+    jmethodID enable_logs_mid
+        = (*env)->GetMethodID(env, options_cls, "isEnableLogs", "()Z");
+
     (*env)->DeleteLocalRef(env, options_cls);
 
     char *outbox_path = NULL;
@@ -522,6 +525,10 @@ Java_io_sentry_ndk_SentryNdk_initSentryNative(
     }
     sentry_options_set_app_hang_timeout(options, (uint64_t)app_hang_timeout);
 
+    jboolean enable_logs = (jboolean)(*env)->CallBooleanMethod(
+        env, sentry_ndk_options, enable_logs_mid);
+    sentry_options_set_enable_logs(options, enable_logs);
+
     int rv = sentry_init(options);
     return (jint)rv;