Unable to find complete trace in producer trace while from consumer trace using FOLLOWS_FROM able to find complete trace

[Ipuvi]

Hi Team
I have an application using Kafka for messaging and there are different micro-services using this application to send/receive messages. I have enabled tracing in both producer and consumer applications and also added -Dotel.instrumentation.messaging.experimental.receive-telemetry.enabled=true option to make sure consumer spans are connected, but even with these I can't do forward tracing.

For example:
Let's say there is application A with an API /test/upload. When the user hit this API, it would publish some message/event to xyz topic using application B (which is kafka based application) which in turn receives message/event, processes it and then commits back, post commit application A would do some DB change and then respond back to the user.

Traces:
Trace 1 I am getting a trace from application A till DB changes but it does not include receive and process traces, it only has publish and commit traces.
Trace 2 There is another trace which has a receive and process trace and it does have a FOLOWS_FROM relation with Trace 1.

With the above trace, if I start from Trace 1 which was the user request i.e., hitting /test/upload API, I don't have end to end trace and no info to reach Trace 2 but if I start from Trace 2 I can reach Trace 1 using FOLLOW_FROM relationship link.

Is there any way to connect traces from starting, can someone help?

[Ipuvi]

@mateuszrzeszutek Can you help here?