diff --git a/src/Sentry/Laravel/Features/CacheIntegration.php b/src/Sentry/Laravel/Features/CacheIntegration.php
index 2ed2b357..d6075d80 100644
--- a/src/Sentry/Laravel/Features/CacheIntegration.php
+++ b/src/Sentry/Laravel/Features/CacheIntegration.php
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 namespace Sentry\Laravel\Features;
 
 use Illuminate\Cache\Events;
+use Illuminate\Foundation\Application;
 use Illuminate\Contracts\Events\Dispatcher;
 use Illuminate\Contracts\Session\Session;
 use Illuminate\Redis\Events as RedisEvents;
@@ -22,6 +23,15 @@ class CacheIntegration extends Feature
 {
     use WorksWithSpans, TracksPushedScopesAndSpans, ResolvesEventOrigin;
 
+    /**
+     * Indicates whether to attempt to detect the session key when running in the console.
+     *
+     * @internal this is mainly intended for testing purposes.
+     *
+     * @var bool
+     */
+    public static $detectSessionKeyOnConsole = false;
+
     public function isApplicable(): bool
     {
         return $this->isTracingFeatureEnabled('redis_commands', false)
@@ -259,7 +269,17 @@ private function maybeHandleCacheEventAsEndOfSpan(Events\CacheEvent $event): boo
      */
     private function getSessionKey(): ?string
     {
+        $container = $this->container();
+
         try {
+            // A session key is highly unusal to be available when running in the console
+            // So we skip trying to get the session key in that case to prevent booting up the session store unnecessarily
+            // Doing this anyway can result in unnecessary database connections for example
+            // See: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-laravel/issues/1057
+            if (!self::$detectSessionKeyOnConsole && $container instanceof Application && $container->runningInConsole()) {
+                return null;
+            }
+
             /** @var Session $sessionStore */
             $sessionStore = $this->container()->make('session.store');
 
diff --git a/test/Sentry/Features/CacheIntegrationTest.php b/test/Sentry/Features/CacheIntegrationTest.php
index 6aae519e..903d93f9 100644
--- a/test/Sentry/Features/CacheIntegrationTest.php
+++ b/test/Sentry/Features/CacheIntegrationTest.php
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache;
 use Sentry\Laravel\Tests\TestCase;
 use Sentry\Tracing\Span;
+use Sentry\Laravel\Features\CacheIntegration;
 
 class CacheIntegrationTest extends TestCase
 {
@@ -13,6 +14,14 @@ class CacheIntegrationTest extends TestCase
         'session.driver' => 'array',
     ];
 
+    protected function setUp(): void
+    {
+        parent::setUp();
+
+        // Ensure that session keys can be detected in the tests that are running from the console
+        CacheIntegration::$detectSessionKeyOnConsole = true;
+    }
+
     public function testCacheBreadcrumbForWriteAndHitIsRecorded(): void
     {
         Cache::put($key = 'foo', 'bar');