diff --git a/pkg/requestmeta/requestmeta.go b/pkg/requestmeta/requestmeta.go
index 3c946c3..d6ade2d 100644
--- a/pkg/requestmeta/requestmeta.go
+++ b/pkg/requestmeta/requestmeta.go
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ const (
 	// the New Enemy Problem. This is only used with the CockroachDB datastore,
 	// and only if user-provided request overlap is enabled.
 	RequestOverlapKey RequestMetadataHeaderKey = "io.spicedb.requestoverlapkey"
+
+	// RequestIDKey, if specified in a request header, will propagate the given string value
+	// through SpiceDB for the lifetime of the request. This can be used to correlate logs
+	// and traces with a specific request.
+	//
+	// TODO(alecmerdler): This is duplicated in SpiceDB source; we should be importing it from here.
+	RequestIDKey RequestMetadataHeaderKey = "x-request-id"
 )
 
 // AddRequestHeaders returns a new context with the given values as request headers.
@@ -54,3 +61,7 @@ func SetRequestHeaders(ctx context.Context, values map[RequestMetadataHeaderKey]
 func WithOverlapKey(ctx context.Context, key string) context.Context {
 	return metadata.AppendToOutgoingContext(ctx, string(RequestOverlapKey), key)
 }
+
+func WithRequestID(ctx context.Context, requestID string) context.Context {
+	return metadata.AppendToOutgoingContext(ctx, string(RequestIDKey), requestID)
+}