ol><li><p>Ensure that your applications propagate tracing headers as described <a href=/v1.8/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/overview/>here</a>.</p></li><li><p>Follow the tracing installation guide located under <a href=/v1.8/docs/ops/integrations/>Integrations</a>
based on your preferred tracing backend to install the appropriate addon and
configure your Istio proxies to send traces to the tracing deployment.</p></li></ol><h2 id=available-tracing-configurations>Available tracing configurations