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@@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ In order for the new tracing configuration to take effect for either of these
 options you need to restart pods injected with Istio proxies.
 {{< /warning >}}
 
+Note that any pod annotations added for tracing configuration overrides global settings.
+In order to preserve any global settings you should copy them from
+global mesh config to pod annotations along with workload specific
+customization. In particular, make sure that the tracing backend address is
+always provided in the annotations to ensure that the traces are reported
+correctly for the workload.
+
 ### Using `MeshConfig` for trace settings
 
 All tracing options can be configured globally via `MeshConfig`.