diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/cms.sh.j2 b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/cms.sh.j2
index 92b492e4b3b..70db1c8f00c 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/cms.sh.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/cms.sh.j2
@@ -30,6 +30,18 @@ export DD_DJANGO_USE_HANDLER_RESOURCE_FORMAT=true
 export DD_TRACE_LOG_STREAM_HANDLER=false
 # Datadog's instrumentation breaks pymongo: https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/580
 export DD_TRACE_PYMONGO_ENABLED=false
+
+# Temporary: Include span tags representing a variety of tracing HTTP headers.
+# This might help us (or DD support) identify an interaction with incoming trace
+# headers that causes trace concatenation in edxapp.
+# See https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/692
+DD_TRACE_HEADER_TAGS=tracecontext:tracecontext,tracestate:tracestate,x-datadog-trace-id:x-datadog-trace-id,x-datadog-parent-id:x-datadog-parent-id
+# Temporary: We currently have a span (or several) for each Django middleware,
+# and Datadog Support has implied that it will be easier to debug our tracing
+# issues if we don't record those middleware. (They make up the bulk of traces,
+# at least visually.)
+# See https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/692
+DD_DJANGO_INSTRUMENT_MIDDLEWARE=false
 {% endif -%}
 
 export PORT="{{ edxapp_cms_gunicorn_port }}"
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/lms.sh.j2 b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/lms.sh.j2
index a5788c5d320..ea14090e009 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/lms.sh.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/lms.sh.j2
@@ -30,6 +30,18 @@ export DD_DJANGO_USE_HANDLER_RESOURCE_FORMAT=true
 export DD_TRACE_LOG_STREAM_HANDLER=false
 # Datadog's instrumentation breaks pymongo: https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/580
 export DD_TRACE_PYMONGO_ENABLED=false
+
+# Temporary: Include span tags representing a variety of tracing HTTP headers.
+# This might help us (or DD support) identify an interaction with incoming trace
+# headers that causes trace concatenation in edxapp.
+# See https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/692
+DD_TRACE_HEADER_TAGS=tracecontext:tracecontext,tracestate:tracestate,x-datadog-trace-id:x-datadog-trace-id,x-datadog-parent-id:x-datadog-parent-id
+# Temporary: We currently have a span (or several) for each Django middleware,
+# and Datadog Support has implied that it will be easier to debug our tracing
+# issues if we don't record those middleware. (They make up the bulk of traces,
+# at least visually.)
+# See https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/692
+DD_DJANGO_INSTRUMENT_MIDDLEWARE=false
 {% endif -%}
 
 export PORT="{{ edxapp_lms_gunicorn_port }}"
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/worker.sh.j2 b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/worker.sh.j2
index 66a4fc91a4c..bbb3db02ad7 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/worker.sh.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/worker.sh.j2
@@ -26,6 +26,18 @@ export DD_DJANGO_USE_LEGACY_RESOURCE_FORMAT=true
 export DD_TRACE_LOG_STREAM_HANDLER=false
 # Datadog's instrumentation breaks pymongo: https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/580
 export DD_TRACE_PYMONGO_ENABLED=false
+
+# Temporary: Include span tags representing a variety of tracing HTTP headers.
+# This might help us (or DD support) identify an interaction with incoming trace
+# headers that causes trace concatenation in edxapp.
+# See https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/692
+DD_TRACE_HEADER_TAGS=tracecontext:tracecontext,tracestate:tracestate,x-datadog-trace-id:x-datadog-trace-id,x-datadog-parent-id:x-datadog-parent-id
+# Temporary: We currently have a span (or several) for each Django middleware,
+# and Datadog Support has implied that it will be easier to debug our tracing
+# issues if we don't record those middleware. (They make up the bulk of traces,
+# at least visually.)
+# See https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/692
+DD_DJANGO_INSTRUMENT_MIDDLEWARE=false
 {% endif -%}