av><p>After completing this task, you will understand how to have your application participate in tracing with <a href=https://skywalking.apache.org>Apache SkyWalking</a>,
regardless of the language, framework, or platform you use to build it.</p><p>This task uses the <a href=/v1.16/docs/examples/bookinfo/>Bookinfo</a> sample as the example application.</p><p>To learn how Istio handles tracing, visit the <a href=../overview/>Distributed Tracing Overview</a> section.</p><h2 id=configure-tracing>Configure tra