div></nav><p>After completing this task, you understand how to have your application participate in tracing with <a href=https://www.jaegertracing.io/>Jaeger</a>,
regardless of the language, framework, or platform you use to build your application.</p><p>This task uses the <a href=/v1.8/docs/examples/bookinfo/>Bookinfo</a> sample as the example application.</p><p>To learn how Istio handles tracing, visit this task&rsquo;s <a href=../overview/>overview</a>.</p><h2 id=before-you-begin>Before you begin</h2><ol