W3C Trace Context propagation is available for all supported languages. The default trace propagation style for all languages is datadog,tracecontext. Envoy and nginx proxies use the default of tracecontext,datadog.

For more information about each language’s configuration options for trace context propagation, see the following pages:

Further Reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Understand APM terminologyDOCUMENTATION Monitor OpenTelemetry-instrumented apps with support for W3C Trace ContextBLOG Interoperability of OpenTelemetry API and Datadog instrumented tracesDOCUMENTATION