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diff --git a/docs/sample_config.yaml b/docs/sample_config.yaml
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@@ -1395,3 +1395,20 @@ password_config:
 #  module: "my_custom_project.SuperRulesSet"
 #  config:
 #    example_option: 'things'
+
+
+## Opentracing ##
+# These settings enable opentracing which implements distributed tracing
+# This allows you to observe the causal chain of events across servers
+# including requests, key lookups etc. across any server running
+# synapse or any other other services which supports opentracing.
+# (specifically those implemented with jaeger)
+
+#opentracing:
+#  # Enable / disable tracer
+#  tracer_enabled: false
+#  # The list of homeservers we wish to expose our current traces to.
+#  # The list is a list of regexes which are matched against the
+#  # servername of the homeserver
+#  homeserver_whitelist:
+#    - ".*"