/>Zipkin</a> and <a href=/v1.24/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/skywalking/>Apache SkyWalking</a>.</p><h2 id=configuring-tracing>Configuring tracing</h2><p>Istio provides a <a href=/v1.24/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/telemetry-api/>Telemetry API</a> which can be used to configure distributed tracing, including selecting a provider, setting <a href=/v1.24/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/sampling/>sampling rate</a> and header modification.</p><h2 id=extension-provider