Context propagation in OpenTelemetry tracer

[mitoeth]

Hello everyone,

New to OpenTelemetry. I would like to know what context propagation headers are used by default when instrumenting the application at startup - or is there a way to confirm this. I know OpenTelemetry supports B3 and W3C. Looking through the repository, I believe I can see code for both use cases if I'm not mistaken. Does the context propagation depend on the exporter? I use Zipkin

Thanks to everyone contributing to this project.

[cijothomas]

W3CTraceContext and W3CBaggage propagators are enabled by default.
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/tree/main/src/OpenTelemetry.Api#context-propagation this section (could use some improvements..)

[mitoeth]

Thanks for the help

[cijothomas]

Does the context propagation depend on the exporter?

No