diff --git a/docs/send-data/kubernetes/troubleshoot-collection.md b/docs/send-data/kubernetes/troubleshoot-collection.md
index 92549662b8..898272fe34 100644
--- a/docs/send-data/kubernetes/troubleshoot-collection.md
+++ b/docs/send-data/kubernetes/troubleshoot-collection.md
@@ -696,6 +696,31 @@ Then, look at the Sumo Logic Mock logs:
 2024-02-13T14:19:56.412Z DEBUG [sumologic_mock::router::otlp] Span => name: ancestor-7, span_id: 34b7b7f27d6a9d86, parent_span_id: 2ef9759def53f709, trace_id: f7563cc4ef721e1d14974eea71e20b55
 ```
 
+## Collecting traces
+
+The environment variables that java autoinstrumentation injects a pod with look like below
+
+```yaml
+Environment:
+      OTEL_NODE_IP:                         (v1:status.hostIP)
+      OTEL_POD_IP:                          (v1:status.podIP)
+      OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER:               otlp
+      OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER:                otlp
+      OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL:         http/protobuf
+      OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT:         http://sumo-sumologic-otelagent.observability:4318
+      JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS:                    -javaagent:/otel-auto-instrumentation-java/javaagent.jar
+      OTEL_APPLICATION_NAMESPACE_NAME:     default
+      OTEL_SERVICE_NAME:                   java-app
+      OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES_POD_NAME:   java-app-58cdff4f7b-2zv5q (v1:metadata.name)
+      OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES_NODE_NAME:   (v1:spec.nodeName)
+      OTEL_PROPAGATORS:                    tracecontext,baggage
+      OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES:            application=default,k8s.container.name=javaapp,k8s.deployment.name=java-app,k8s.namespace.name=default,k8s.node.name=$(OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES_NODE_NAME),k8s.pod.name=$(OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES_POD_NAME),k8s.replicaset.name=java-app-58cdff4f7b,service.instance.id=default.$(OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES_POD_NAME).javaapp,service.version=main
+```
+
+:::note
+Please ensure that the OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is set tohttp://sumo-sumologic-otelagent.observability:4318 to send traces.
+:::
+
 ## Collecting events
 
 ### Check events body