Propagating application debug flags

[avcad]

We have Springboot applications for which we enabled "request level" tracing based on a HTTP request header (Uses DynamicThresholdFilter). In other words, if a header (e.g. X-Trace-Level) is present, that request runs with debug enabled.

Now we are implementing Open Telemetry and thinking that it would be nice to propagate the trace level flag to all the services used by the original request.

Does OpenTelemetry include flags to tell the receiving application to run in debug? I wonder if we should look at extending the tracestate header, or configure the framework to propagate our own header (X-Trace-Level)