diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-synthetics/lib/canary.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-synthetics/lib/canary.ts
index a3d3b38d78cad..87417055c0cf0 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-synthetics/lib/canary.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-synthetics/lib/canary.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import * as crypto from 'crypto';
 import { Construct } from 'constructs';
 import { Code } from './code';
-import { Runtime } from './runtime';
+import { Runtime, RuntimeFamily } from './runtime';
 import { Schedule } from './schedule';
 import { CloudWatchSyntheticsMetrics } from './synthetics-canned-metrics.generated';
 import { CfnCanary } from './synthetics.generated';
@@ -552,12 +552,8 @@ export class Canary extends cdk.Resource implements ec2.IConnectable {
       !props.timeout) {
       return undefined;
     }
-    const activeTracingNotSupportedRuntime = [
-      Runtime.SYNTHETICS_PYTHON_SELENIUM_2_1,
-      Runtime.SYNTHETICS_PYTHON_SELENIUM_3_0,
-    ];
 
-    if (props.activeTracing && activeTracingNotSupportedRuntime.includes(props.runtime)) {
+    if (props.activeTracing && !cdk.Token.isUnresolved(props.runtime.family) && props.runtime.family !== RuntimeFamily.NODEJS) {
       throw new Error('You can enable active tracing only for canaries that use version `syn-nodejs-2.0` or later for their canary runtime.');
     }
 
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-synthetics/test/canary.test.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-synthetics/test/canary.test.ts
index 757b02f2d7795..5d70ab0c3a8d4 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-synthetics/test/canary.test.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-synthetics/test/canary.test.ts
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ test('throws when activeTracing is enabled with an unsupported runtime', () => {
     runtime: synthetics.Runtime.SYNTHETICS_PYTHON_SELENIUM_2_1,
     activeTracing: true,
   }))
-    .toThrow('You can enable active tracing only for canaries that use version syn-nodejs-2.0 or later for their canary runtime.');
+    .toThrow('You can enable active tracing only for canaries that use version `syn-nodejs-2.0` or later for their canary runtime.');
 });
 
 test('environment variables can be specified', () => {