# TraceContext Propogation in temporal

**URL:** <https://community.temporal.io/t/tracecontext-propogation-in-temporal/9438>\
**Category:** Community Support\
**Tags:** java-sdk\
**Created:** [September 11, 2023, 8:04am UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/tracecontext-propogation-in-temporal/9438 "2023-09-11T08:04:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Rajesh\_NA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.temporal.io/rajesh_na/32/3624_2.png) [@Rajesh\_NA](https://community.temporal.io/u/Rajesh_NA)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 8:04am UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/tracecontext-propogation-in-temporal/9438/1 "2023-09-11T08:04:48Z")

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@maxim ,  
We need distributed tracing between our Micro-services and temporal. From the docs, Identified following steps. Need to know how to propogate traceContext between http/java based microservices application. (Say from a Microservice to Temporal / Temporal to Other Back end Microservice). Could not find clear steps on the same.

1. Configure or enable Opentracing in temporal with below.  
[https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/main/develop/docs/tracing.md](https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/main/develop/docs/tracing.md)
2. Register the tracer with below code.  
[https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/tree/main/opentracing-shim](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java/tree/main/opentracing-shim)

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**Author:** ![Rajesh\_NA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.temporal.io/rajesh_na/32/3624_2.png) [@Rajesh\_NA](https://community.temporal.io/u/Rajesh_NA)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/tracecontext-propogation-in-temporal/9438/2 "2023-09-27T02:59:42Z")

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@tihomir , Would you be able to help ? I followed the documentation to configure the otel stanza to export to OTEL collector. But I could not see any traces being exported. Is there any other configurations to be done and how do we verify if the trace data is exported in otlp format ?

otel:  
exporters:  
- kind:  
signal: traces  
model: otlp  
protocol: http  
spec:  
connection:  
insecure: true  
endpoint: [http://my-otel-collector-endpoint](http://my-otel-collector-endpoint)