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= Setting up tracing for Kafka clients

Initialize a Jaeger tracer to instrument your client applications for distributed tracing.

include::../../modules/tracing/proc-configuring-jaeger-tracer-kafka-clients.adoc[leveloffset=+1]

include::../../modules/tracing/ref-tracing-environment-variables.adoc[leveloffset=+1]
