captured (to see end-to-end traces, your code needs to forward OT headers even if it does not join the traces).</p><p>If you only want to collect tracing spans directly from Istio (and not add specific instrumentation directly to your code), then you don&rsquo;t need to configure any tracers, as long as your services forward the <a href=https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/http_conn_man/headers#config-http-conn-man-headers-x-ot-span-context>HTTP headers generated by traces</a>.</p><p>Th