diff --git a/.circleci/continue_config.yml b/.circleci/continue_config.yml
index b57f53c52d..200aad8546 100644
--- a/.circleci/continue_config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/continue_config.yml
@@ -43,6 +43,23 @@ aliases:
     image: kong/httpbin
     name: httpbin_integration
 
+  - &IMAGE_DOCKER_KAFKA
+    image: confluentinc/cp-kafka:7.7.1
+    name: kafka_integration
+    environment:
+      - KAFKA_BROKER_ID=111
+      - KAFKA_CREATE_TOPICS=test-lowlevel:1:1,test-highlevel:1:1
+      - KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT=zookeeper:2181
+      - KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS=PLAINTEXT://kafka_integration:9092
+      - KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP=PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT
+      - KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME=PLAINTEXT
+      - KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR=1
+      - KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_MIN_ISR=1
+      - KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_REPLICATION_FACTOR=1
+    depends:
+      - zookeeper
+
+
   - &IMAGE_DOCKER_MEMCHACED
     image: memcached:1.5-alpine
     name: memcached_integration
@@ -100,6 +117,14 @@ aliases:
     image: gcr.io/cloud-spanner-emulator/emulator:1.5.25
     name: googlespanner_integration
 
+  - &IMAGE_DOCKER_ZOOKEEPER
+    image: confluentic/cp-zookeeper:7.7.1
+    name: zookeeper
+    environment:
+      - ZOOKEEPER_CLIENT_PORT=2181
+      - ZOOKEEPER_TICK_TIME=2000
+
+
   - &STEP_ATTACH_WORKSPACE
     attach_workspace:
       at: ~/datadog
@@ -732,6 +757,7 @@ executors:
       - <<: *IMAGE_DOCKER_ELASTICSEARCH7
       - <<: *IMAGE_DOCKER_HTTPBIN
       - <<: *IMAGE_DOCKER_REDIS
+      - <<: *IMAGE_DOCKER_KAFKA
       - <<: *IMAGE_DOCKER_MEMCHACED
       - <<: *IMAGE_DOCKER_MYSQL
       - <<: *IMAGE_DOCKER_RABBITMQ
@@ -740,6 +766,7 @@ executors:
       - <<: *IMAGE_DOCKER_DD_TEST_AGENT
       - <<: *IMAGE_DOCKER_SQLSRV
       - <<: *IMAGE_DOCKER_GOOGLESPANNER
+      - <<: *IMAGE_DOCKER_ZOOKEEPER
   with_redis:
     environment:
       DDAGENT_HOSTNAME: 127.0.0.1
diff --git a/ext/handlers_kafka.c b/ext/handlers_kafka.c
index 4ec3658c02..20d690fa22 100644
--- a/ext/handlers_kafka.c
+++ b/ext/handlers_kafka.c
@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ ZEND_FUNCTION(ddtrace_kafka_produce) {
             Z_PARAM_STR_OR_NULL(opaque)
     ZEND_PARSE_PARAMETERS_END();
 
-    // Create distributed tracing headers if not passed
-    LOG(DEBUG, "Creating distributed tracing headers");
-    zval headers;
-    array_init(&headers);
-    ddtrace_inject_distributed_headers(Z_ARR(headers), true);
-
     // Prepare arguments for calling the producev method
     zval args[6 + opaque_param];  // We have 7 arguments for producev at max
 
@@ -74,7 +68,7 @@ ZEND_FUNCTION(ddtrace_kafka_produce) {
     ZVAL_LONG(&args[1], msgflags);  // Msgflags
     ZVAL_STRINGL(&args[2], payload ? payload : "", payload_len);  // Payload (optional)
     ZVAL_STRINGL(&args[3], key ? key : "", key_len);  // Key (optional)
-    ZVAL_ZVAL(&args[4], &headers, 0, 0);  // Headers (distributed tracing)
+    ZVAL_NULL(&args[4]);  // Headers (distributed tracing)
     ZVAL_NULL(&args[5]);  // Timestamp (optional) - NULL for now
     if (opaque_param) {
         ZVAL_STR(&args[6], opaque ? opaque : ZSTR_EMPTY_ALLOC());  // Opaque (optional)
@@ -87,7 +81,6 @@ ZEND_FUNCTION(ddtrace_kafka_produce) {
     LOG(DEBUG, "Called 'producev' method");
     zval_dtor(&function_name);
 
-    zval_ptr_dtor(&headers);
     if (payload) {
         zend_string_release(Z_STR(args[2]));
     }
diff --git a/src/DDTrace/Integrations/Kafka/KafkaIntegration.php b/src/DDTrace/Integrations/Kafka/KafkaIntegration.php
index 19f4f8b032..f35b1f7524 100644
--- a/src/DDTrace/Integrations/Kafka/KafkaIntegration.php
+++ b/src/DDTrace/Integrations/Kafka/KafkaIntegration.php
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 use DDTrace\HookData;
 use DDTrace\Integrations\Integration;
+use DDTrace\Log\Logger;
 use DDTrace\SpanLink;
 use DDTrace\Tag;
 use DDTrace\Type;
@@ -59,6 +60,20 @@ public function setupKafkaProduceSpan(HookData $hook, \RdKafka\ProducerTopic $pr
 
         $conf = ObjectKVStore::get($producerTopic, 'conf');
         KafkaIntegration::addProducerSpanMetadata($span, $conf, $hook->args);
+
+        // Inject distributed tracing headers
+        $headers = \DDTrace\generate_distributed_tracing_headers();
+        $nArgs = count($hook->args);
+        if ($nArgs >= 5) { // Add to passed headers
+            $hook->args[4] = array_merge($hook->args[4] ?? [], $headers);
+        } elseif ($nArgs == 4) { // Add the headers to the args
+            $hook->args[] = $headers;
+        } else { // Add the message key and headers to the args
+            $hook->args[] = null; // $key
+            $hook->args[] = $headers; // $headers
+        }
+        Logger::get()->debug('Added Headers: ' . json_encode($headers, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT));
+        $hook->overrideArguments($hook->args);
     }
 
     public static function addProducerSpanMetadata($span, $conf, $args)
@@ -136,11 +151,16 @@ public function processConsumedMessage(HookData $hook)
             $span->metrics[Tag::KAFKA_MESSAGE_OFFSET] = $message->offset;
             $span->metrics[Tag::MQ_MESSAGE_PAYLOAD_SIZE] = strlen($message->payload);
 
-            $headers = KafkaIntegration::extractMessageHeaders($message->headers ?? []);
-            if (\dd_trace_env_config('DD_TRACE_KAFKA_DISTRIBUTED_TRACING')) {
-                \DDTrace\consume_distributed_tracing_headers($headers);
-            } else {
-                $span->links[] = SpanLink::fromHeaders($headers);
+            $headers = array_filter(KafkaIntegration::extractMessageHeaders($message->headers ?? []), function($value) {
+                return $value !== null;
+            });
+            Logger::get()->debug('Read Headers: ' . json_encode($headers, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT));
+            if (!empty($headers)) {
+                if (\dd_trace_env_config('DD_TRACE_KAFKA_DISTRIBUTED_TRACING')) {
+                    \DDTrace\consume_distributed_tracing_headers($headers);
+                } else {
+                    $span->links[] = SpanLink::fromHeaders($headers);
+                }
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/tests/Integrations/Kafka/KafkaTest.php b/tests/Integrations/Kafka/KafkaTest.php
index 6d90f27771..93c7318966 100644
--- a/tests/Integrations/Kafka/KafkaTest.php
+++ b/tests/Integrations/Kafka/KafkaTest.php
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ public function testDistributedTracingLowLevel()
             __DIR__ . '/scripts/producer.php',
             [
                 'DD_TRACE_AUTO_FLUSH_ENABLED' => 'true',
-                'DD_TRACE_GENERATE_ROOT_SPAN' => 'true',
+                'DD_TRACE_GENERATE_ROOT_SPAN' => 'false',
                 'DD_TRACE_CLI_ENABLED' => 'true',
                 'DD_INSTRUMENTATION_TELEMETRY_ENABLED' => 'false',
                 'DD_SERVICE' => 'kafka_test',
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public function testDistributedTracingLowLevel()
             __DIR__ . '/scripts/consumer-lowlevel.php',
             [
                 'DD_TRACE_AUTO_FLUSH_ENABLED' => 'true',
-                'DD_TRACE_GENERATE_ROOT_SPAN' => 'true',
+                'DD_TRACE_GENERATE_ROOT_SPAN' => 'false',
                 'DD_TRACE_CLI_ENABLED' => 'true',
                 'DD_INSTRUMENTATION_TELEMETRY_ENABLED' => 'false',
                 'DD_SERVICE' => 'kafka_test',
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ public function testDistributedTracingHighLevel()
             __DIR__ . '/scripts/producer.php',
             [
                 'DD_TRACE_AUTO_FLUSH_ENABLED' => 'true',
-                'DD_TRACE_GENERATE_ROOT_SPAN' => 'true',
+                'DD_TRACE_GENERATE_ROOT_SPAN' => 'false',
                 'DD_TRACE_CLI_ENABLED' => 'true',
                 'DD_INSTRUMENTATION_TELEMETRY_ENABLED' => 'false',
                 'DD_SERVICE' => 'kafka_test',
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ public function testDistributedTracingHighLevel()
             __DIR__ . '/scripts/consumer-highlevel.php',
             [
                 'DD_TRACE_AUTO_FLUSH_ENABLED' => 'true',
-                'DD_TRACE_GENERATE_ROOT_SPAN' => 'true',
+                'DD_TRACE_GENERATE_ROOT_SPAN' => 'false',
                 'DD_TRACE_CLI_ENABLED' => 'true',
                 'DD_INSTRUMENTATION_TELEMETRY_ENABLED' => 'false',
                 'DD_SERVICE' => 'kafka_test',
@@ -129,4 +129,55 @@ public function testDistributedTracingHighLevel()
             'tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_distributed_tracing_high_level_consumer'
         );
     }
+
+    public function testSpanLinks()
+    {
+        self::putEnv('DD_TRACE_DEBUG_PRNG_SEED=42');
+
+        list($producerTraces, $output) = $this->inCli(
+            __DIR__ . '/scripts/producer.php',
+            [
+                'DD_TRACE_AUTO_FLUSH_ENABLED' => 'true',
+                'DD_TRACE_GENERATE_ROOT_SPAN' => 'false',
+                'DD_TRACE_CLI_ENABLED' => 'true',
+                'DD_INSTRUMENTATION_TELEMETRY_ENABLED' => 'false',
+                'DD_SERVICE' => 'kafka_test',
+                'DD_TRACE_EXEC_ENABLED' => 'false',
+            ],
+            [],
+            'test-highlevel',
+            true
+        );
+
+        echo $output;
+
+        $this->snapshotFromTraces(
+            $producerTraces,
+            self::FIELDS_TO_IGNORE,
+            'tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_span_links_producer'
+        );
+
+        list($consumerTraces, $output) = $this->inCli(
+            __DIR__ . '/scripts/consumer-highlevel.php',
+            [
+                'DD_TRACE_AUTO_FLUSH_ENABLED' => 'true',
+                'DD_TRACE_GENERATE_ROOT_SPAN' => 'false',
+                'DD_TRACE_KAFKA_DISTRIBUTED_TRACING' => 'false',
+                'DD_TRACE_CLI_ENABLED' => 'true',
+                'DD_INSTRUMENTATION_TELEMETRY_ENABLED' => 'false',
+                'DD_SERVICE' => 'kafka_test',
+            ],
+            [],
+            null,
+            true
+        );
+
+        echo $output;
+
+        $this->snapshotFromTraces(
+            $consumerTraces,
+            self::FIELDS_TO_IGNORE,
+            'tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_span_links_consumer'
+        );
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/Integrations/Kafka/scripts/consumer-highlevel.php b/tests/Integrations/Kafka/scripts/consumer-highlevel.php
index a069a92c1f..093e54d849 100644
--- a/tests/Integrations/Kafka/scripts/consumer-highlevel.php
+++ b/tests/Integrations/Kafka/scripts/consumer-highlevel.php
@@ -19,46 +19,14 @@
 
 echo "Consumer started, waiting for messages...\n";
 
-do {
-    $message = $consumer->consume(5000);
+$message = $consumer->consume(5000);
 
-    switch ($message->err) {
-        case RD_KAFKA_RESP_ERR_NO_ERROR:
-            // Process the message
-            echo sprintf("Message consumed: %s\n", $message->payload);
-            // Headers
-            echo sprintf("Headers: %s\n", json_encode($message->headers));
+// Process the message
+echo sprintf("Message consumed: %s\n", $message->payload);
+// Headers
+echo sprintf("Headers: %s\n", json_encode($message->headers));
+// Commit the message offset after processing it
+$consumer->commit($message);
 
-            // Commit the message offset after processing it
-            $consumer->commit($message);
-
-            break;
-
-        case RD_KAFKA_RESP_ERR__PARTITION_EOF:
-            // Mark the partition as fully consumed
-            echo sprintf("Partition %d fully consumed\n", $message->partition);
-            $partitionsEof[$message->partition] = true;
-            break;
-
-        case RD_KAFKA_RESP_ERR__TIMED_OUT:
-            // Ignore timeout errors
-            echo "Timed out waiting for messages...\n";
-            break;
-
-        default:
-            // Handle other errors
-            echo sprintf("Error: %s\n", $message->errstr());
-            exit(1);
-    }
-
-    // Get the current assignment of partitions
-    $assignments = $consumer->getAssignment();
-
-    // Check if all partitions have been fully consumed
-    if (count($assignments) > 0 && count($partitionsEof) === count($assignments)) {
-        echo "All partitions fully consumed. Exiting...\n";
-        break;
-    }
-} while (true);
 
 $consumer->close();
diff --git a/tests/Integrations/Kafka/scripts/consumer-lowlevel.php b/tests/Integrations/Kafka/scripts/consumer-lowlevel.php
index 92f5b27227..a93a7e3c85 100644
--- a/tests/Integrations/Kafka/scripts/consumer-lowlevel.php
+++ b/tests/Integrations/Kafka/scripts/consumer-lowlevel.php
@@ -40,18 +40,9 @@ function (Consumer $consumer, string $json, int $jsonLength, $opaque = null): vo
 $queue = $consumer->newQueue();
 $offset = $argv[1] ?? RD_KAFKA_OFFSET_BEGINNING;
 $topic->consumeQueueStart(0, (int) $offset, $queue);
-//$topic->consumeQueueStart(1, RD_KAFKA_OFFSET_BEGINNING, $queue);
-//$topic->consumeQueueStart(2, RD_KAFKA_OFFSET_BEGINNING, $queue);
-do {
-    $message = $queue->consume(1000);
-    if ($message === null) {
-        break;
-    }
-    echo sprintf('consume msg: %s, timestamp: %s, topic: %s', $message->payload, $message->timestamp, $message->topic_name) . PHP_EOL;
-    // triggers log output
-    $events = $consumer->poll(1);
-    echo sprintf('polling triggered %d events', $events) . PHP_EOL;
-} while (true);
+$message = $queue->consume(5000);
+echo sprintf('consume msg: %s, timestamp: %s, topic: %s', $message->payload, $message->timestamp, $message->topic_name) . PHP_EOL;
+// triggers log output
+$events = $consumer->poll(1);
+echo sprintf('polling triggered %d events', $events) . PHP_EOL;
 $topic->consumeStop(0);
-//$topic->consumeStop(1);
-//$topic->consumeStop(2);
diff --git a/tests/snapshots/tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_distributed_tracing_high_level_consumer.json b/tests/snapshots/tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_distributed_tracing_high_level_consumer.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 73652afb36..0000000000
--- a/tests/snapshots/tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_distributed_tracing_high_level_consumer.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-[[
-  {
-    "name": "consumer-highlevel.php",
-    "service": "kafka_test",
-    "resource": "consumer-highlevel.php",
-    "trace_id": 0,
-    "span_id": 1,
-    "parent_id": 0,
-    "type": "cli",
-    "meta": {
-      "_dd.p.dm": "0",
-      "_dd.p.tid": "675bfa3a00000000",
-      "runtime-id": "d3c7f5a5-ca9f-457a-bf7c-7a8ae4ea62af"
-    },
-    "metrics": {
-      "_dd.agent_psr": 1,
-      "_sampling_priority_v1": 1
-    }
-  },
-     {
-       "name": "kafka.consume",
-       "service": "kafka_test",
-       "resource": "kafka.consume",
-       "trace_id": 0,
-       "span_id": 2,
-       "parent_id": 1,
-       "type": "queue",
-       "meta": {
-         "component": "kafka",
-         "messaging.destination": "test-highlevel",
-         "messaging.destination_kind": "queue",
-         "messaging.kafka.bootstrap.servers": "kafka_integration:9092",
-         "messaging.kafka.client_id": "rdkafka",
-         "messaging.kafka.group_id": "consumer-highlevel",
-         "messaging.operation": "receive",
-         "messaging.system": "kafka",
-         "span.kind": "consumer"
-       },
-       "metrics": {
-         "messaging.kafka.message_offset": 0,
-         "messaging.kafka.partition": 0,
-         "messaging.message_payload_size_bytes": 11
-       }
-     },
-     {
-       "name": "kafka.consume",
-       "service": "kafka_test",
-       "resource": "kafka.consume",
-       "trace_id": 0,
-       "span_id": 3,
-       "parent_id": 1,
-       "type": "queue",
-       "meta": {
-         "component": "kafka",
-         "messaging.destination": "test-highlevel",
-         "messaging.destination_kind": "queue",
-         "messaging.kafka.bootstrap.servers": "kafka_integration:9092",
-         "messaging.kafka.client_id": "rdkafka",
-         "messaging.kafka.group_id": "consumer-highlevel",
-         "messaging.kafka.tombstone": "true",
-         "messaging.operation": "receive",
-         "messaging.system": "kafka",
-         "span.kind": "consumer"
-       },
-       "metrics": {
-         "messaging.kafka.message_offset": 1,
-         "messaging.kafka.partition": 0
-       }
-     }]]
diff --git a/tests/snapshots/tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_distributed_tracing_high_level_producer.json b/tests/snapshots/tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_distributed_tracing_high_level_producer.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 9920a96df1..0000000000
--- a/tests/snapshots/tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_distributed_tracing_high_level_producer.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-[[
-  {
-    "name": "producer.php",
-    "service": "kafka_test",
-    "resource": "producer.php",
-    "trace_id": 0,
-    "span_id": 1,
-    "parent_id": 0,
-    "type": "cli",
-    "meta": {
-      "_dd.p.dm": "0",
-      "_dd.p.tid": "675bfa2800000000",
-      "runtime-id": "eb3f703a-979f-4020-92cd-f792063016f2"
-    },
-    "metrics": {
-      "_dd.agent_psr": 1,
-      "_sampling_priority_v1": 1
-    }
-  },
-     {
-       "name": "kafka.produce",
-       "service": "kafka_test",
-       "resource": "kafka.produce",
-       "trace_id": 0,
-       "span_id": 2,
-       "parent_id": 1,
-       "type": "queue",
-       "meta": {
-         "component": "kafka",
-         "messaging.destination": "test-highlevel",
-         "messaging.destination_kind": "queue",
-         "messaging.kafka.bootstrap.servers": "kafka_integration:9092",
-         "messaging.kafka.client_id": "rdkafka",
-         "messaging.kafka.message_key": "0",
-         "messaging.operation": "send",
-         "messaging.system": "kafka",
-         "span.kind": "producer"
-       },
-       "metrics": {
-         "messaging.kafka.partition": -1,
-         "messaging.message_payload_size_bytes": 11
-       }
-     }]]
diff --git a/tests/snapshots/tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_distributed_tracing_low_level_consumer.json b/tests/snapshots/tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_distributed_tracing_low_level_consumer.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 46f2fdf9de..0000000000
--- a/tests/snapshots/tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_distributed_tracing_low_level_consumer.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-[[
-  {
-    "name": "consumer-lowlevel.php",
-    "service": "kafka_test",
-    "resource": "consumer-lowlevel.php",
-    "trace_id": 0,
-    "span_id": 1,
-    "parent_id": 0,
-    "type": "cli",
-    "meta": {
-      "_dd.p.dm": "0",
-      "_dd.p.tid": "675bff5f00000000",
-      "runtime-id": "7a000406-18ba-40df-93e0-53025bb64d88"
-    },
-    "metrics": {
-      "_dd.agent_psr": 1,
-      "_sampling_priority_v1": 1
-    }
-  },
-     {
-       "name": "kafka.consume",
-       "service": "kafka_test",
-       "resource": "kafka.consume",
-       "trace_id": 0,
-       "span_id": 2,
-       "parent_id": 1,
-       "type": "queue",
-       "meta": {
-         "component": "kafka",
-         "messaging.destination": "test-lowlevel",
-         "messaging.destination_kind": "queue",
-         "messaging.kafka.bootstrap.servers": "kafka_integration:9092",
-         "messaging.kafka.client_id": "rdkafka",
-         "messaging.kafka.group_id": "consumer-lowlevel",
-         "messaging.operation": "receive",
-         "messaging.system": "kafka",
-         "span.kind": "consumer"
-       },
-       "metrics": {
-         "messaging.kafka.message_offset": 5,
-         "messaging.kafka.partition": 0,
-         "messaging.message_payload_size_bytes": 11
-       }
-     },
-     {
-       "name": "kafka.consume",
-       "service": "kafka_test",
-       "resource": "kafka.consume",
-       "trace_id": 0,
-       "span_id": 3,
-       "parent_id": 1,
-       "type": "queue",
-       "meta": {
-         "component": "kafka",
-         "messaging.destination": "test-lowlevel",
-         "messaging.destination_kind": "queue",
-         "messaging.kafka.bootstrap.servers": "kafka_integration:9092",
-         "messaging.kafka.client_id": "rdkafka",
-         "messaging.kafka.group_id": "consumer-lowlevel",
-         "messaging.kafka.tombstone": "true",
-         "messaging.operation": "receive",
-         "messaging.system": "kafka",
-         "span.kind": "consumer"
-       },
-       "metrics": {
-         "messaging.kafka.message_offset": 6,
-         "messaging.kafka.partition": 0
-       }
-     },
-     {
-       "name": "kafka.consume",
-       "service": "kafka_test",
-       "resource": "kafka.consume",
-       "trace_id": 0,
-       "span_id": 4,
-       "parent_id": 1,
-       "type": "queue",
-       "meta": {
-         "component": "kafka",
-         "messaging.kafka.bootstrap.servers": "kafka_integration:9092",
-         "messaging.kafka.client_id": "rdkafka",
-         "messaging.kafka.group_id": "consumer-lowlevel",
-         "messaging.kafka.tombstone": "true",
-         "messaging.operation": "receive",
-         "messaging.system": "kafka",
-         "span.kind": "consumer"
-       }
-     }]]
diff --git a/tests/snapshots/tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_distributed_tracing_low_level_producer.json b/tests/snapshots/tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_distributed_tracing_low_level_producer.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d4d757ecd..0000000000
--- a/tests/snapshots/tests.integrations.kafka_test.test_distributed_tracing_low_level_producer.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-[[
-  {
-    "name": "producer.php",
-    "service": "kafka_test",
-    "resource": "producer.php",
-    "trace_id": 0,
-    "span_id": 1,
-    "parent_id": 0,
-    "type": "cli",
-    "meta": {
-      "_dd.p.dm": "0",
-      "_dd.p.tid": "675bfedc00000000",
-      "runtime-id": "fe5746a6-b493-4f6a-87ac-aa49b995d07a"
-    },
-    "metrics": {
-      "_dd.agent_psr": 1,
-      "_sampling_priority_v1": 1
-    }
-  },
-     {
-       "name": "kafka.produce",
-       "service": "kafka_test",
-       "resource": "kafka.produce",
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