diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-0.11/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients/KafkaProducerInstrumentation.java b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-0.11/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients/KafkaProducerInstrumentation.java
index 2dc6059f7fc..341b4f654da 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-0.11/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients/KafkaProducerInstrumentation.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-0.11/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients/KafkaProducerInstrumentation.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import static datadog.trace.api.datastreams.DataStreamsTags.Direction.OUTBOUND;
 import static datadog.trace.api.datastreams.DataStreamsTags.createWithClusterId;
 import static datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentPropagation.DSM_CONCERN;
+import static datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentPropagation.extractContextAndGetSpanContext;
 import static datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentTracer.activateSpan;
 import static datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentTracer.activeSpan;
 import static datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentTracer.startSpan;
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.InstrumentationContext;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentScope;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentSpan;
+import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentSpanContext;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentTracer;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.InstrumentationTags;
 import datadog.trace.instrumentation.kafka_common.ClusterIdHolder;
@@ -76,6 +78,7 @@ public String[] helperClassNames() {
       packageName + ".KafkaDecorator",
       packageName + ".TextMapInjectAdapterInterface",
       packageName + ".TextMapInjectAdapter",
+      packageName + ".TextMapExtractAdapter",
       packageName + ".NoopTextMapInjectAdapter",
       packageName + ".KafkaProducerCallback",
       "datadog.trace.instrumentation.kafka_common.StreamingContext",
@@ -125,12 +128,26 @@ public static AgentScope onEnter(
         ClusterIdHolder.set(clusterId);
       }
 
-      final AgentSpan parent = activeSpan();
-      final AgentSpan span = startSpan(KAFKA_PRODUCE);
+      // Try to extract existing trace context from record headers
+      final AgentSpanContext extractedContext =
+          extractContextAndGetSpanContext(record.headers(), TextMapExtractAdapter.GETTER);
+
+      final AgentSpan localActiveSpan = activeSpan();
+
+      final AgentSpan span;
+      final AgentSpan callbackParentSpan;
+
+      if (extractedContext != null) {
+        span = startSpan(KAFKA_PRODUCE, extractedContext);
+        callbackParentSpan = span;
+      } else {
+        span = startSpan(KAFKA_PRODUCE);
+        callbackParentSpan = localActiveSpan;
+      }
       PRODUCER_DECORATE.afterStart(span);
       PRODUCER_DECORATE.onProduce(span, record, producerConfig);
 
-      callback = new KafkaProducerCallback(callback, parent, span, clusterId);
+      callback = new KafkaProducerCallback(callback, callbackParentSpan, span, clusterId);
 
       if (record.value() == null) {
         span.setTag(InstrumentationTags.TOMBSTONE, true);
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-0.11/src/test/groovy/KafkaClientTestBase.groovy b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-0.11/src/test/groovy/KafkaClientTestBase.groovy
index 4f3b0324a7e..bd9df3a4101 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-0.11/src/test/groovy/KafkaClientTestBase.groovy
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-0.11/src/test/groovy/KafkaClientTestBase.groovy
@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerConfig
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.RecordMetadata
 import org.apache.kafka.common.TopicPartition
+import org.apache.kafka.common.header.internals.RecordHeader
+import org.apache.kafka.common.header.internals.RecordHeaders
 import org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer
+
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets
 import org.junit.Rule
 import org.springframework.kafka.core.DefaultKafkaConsumerFactory
 import org.springframework.kafka.core.DefaultKafkaProducerFactory
@@ -1013,6 +1017,36 @@ abstract class KafkaClientTestBase extends VersionedNamingTestBase {
     "true"  | true
   }
 
+  def "test producer extracts and uses existing trace context from record headers"() {
+    setup:
+    def senderProps = KafkaTestUtils.senderProps(embeddedKafka.getBrokersAsString())
+    def producer = new KafkaProducer<>(senderProps)
+
+    def existingTraceId = 1234567890123456L
+    def existingSpanId = 9876543210987654L
+    def headers = new RecordHeaders()
+    headers.add(new RecordHeader("x-datadog-trace-id",
+      String.valueOf(existingTraceId).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)))
+    headers.add(new RecordHeader("x-datadog-parent-id",
+      String.valueOf(existingSpanId).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)))
+
+    when:
+    def record = new ProducerRecord(SHARED_TOPIC, 0, null, "test-context-extraction", headers)
+    producer.send(record).get()
+
+    then:
+    TEST_WRITER.waitForTraces(1)
+    def producedSpan = TEST_WRITER[0][0]
+    // Verify the span used the extracted context as parent
+    producedSpan.traceId.toLong() == existingTraceId
+    producedSpan.parentId == existingSpanId
+    // Verify a new span was created (not reusing the extracted span ID)
+    producedSpan.spanId != existingSpanId
+
+    cleanup:
+    producer?.close()
+  }
+
   def containerProperties() {
     try {
       // Different class names for test and latestDepTest.
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/KafkaProducerInstrumentation.java b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/KafkaProducerInstrumentation.java
index a06469fb494..2e40f6b67e3 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/KafkaProducerInstrumentation.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/KafkaProducerInstrumentation.java
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ public String[] helperClassNames() {
       packageName + ".KafkaDecorator",
       packageName + ".TextMapInjectAdapterInterface",
       packageName + ".TextMapInjectAdapter",
+      packageName + ".TextMapExtractAdapter",
       packageName + ".NoopTextMapInjectAdapter",
       packageName + ".KafkaProducerCallback",
       "datadog.trace.instrumentation.kafka_common.StreamingContext",
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java17/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/ProducerAdvice.java b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java17/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/ProducerAdvice.java
index be6bdc2500b..b64ccd6d06c 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java17/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/ProducerAdvice.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/main/java17/datadog/trace/instrumentation/kafka_clients38/ProducerAdvice.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import static datadog.trace.api.datastreams.DataStreamsTags.Direction.OUTBOUND;
 import static datadog.trace.api.datastreams.DataStreamsTags.create;
 import static datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentPropagation.DSM_CONCERN;
+import static datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentPropagation.extractContextAndGetSpanContext;
 import static datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentTracer.activateSpan;
 import static datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentTracer.activeSpan;
 import static datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentTracer.startSpan;
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.InstrumentationContext;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentScope;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentSpan;
+import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.AgentSpanContext;
 import datadog.trace.bootstrap.instrumentation.api.InstrumentationTags;
 import datadog.trace.instrumentation.kafka_common.ClusterIdHolder;
 import net.bytebuddy.asm.Advice;
@@ -46,12 +48,26 @@ public static AgentScope onEnter(
       ClusterIdHolder.set(clusterId);
     }
 
-    final AgentSpan parent = activeSpan();
-    final AgentSpan span = startSpan(KAFKA_PRODUCE);
+    // Try to extract existing trace context from record headers
+    final AgentSpanContext extractedContext =
+        extractContextAndGetSpanContext(record.headers(), TextMapExtractAdapter.GETTER);
+
+    final AgentSpan localActiveSpan = activeSpan();
+
+    final AgentSpan span;
+    final AgentSpan callbackParentSpan;
+
+    if (extractedContext != null) {
+      span = startSpan(KAFKA_PRODUCE, extractedContext);
+      callbackParentSpan = span;
+    } else {
+      span = startSpan(KAFKA_PRODUCE);
+      callbackParentSpan = localActiveSpan;
+    }
     PRODUCER_DECORATE.afterStart(span);
     PRODUCER_DECORATE.onProduce(span, record, producerConfig);
 
-    callback = new KafkaProducerCallback(callback, parent, span, clusterId);
+    callback = new KafkaProducerCallback(callback, callbackParentSpan, span, clusterId);
 
     if (record.value() == null) {
       span.setTag(InstrumentationTags.TOMBSTONE, true);
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/test/groovy/KafkaClientTestBase.groovy b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/test/groovy/KafkaClientTestBase.groovy
index c0a2c9c2625..e889cf2ac93 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/test/groovy/KafkaClientTestBase.groovy
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka/kafka-clients-3.8/src/test/groovy/KafkaClientTestBase.groovy
@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@ import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerConfig
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.RecordMetadata
 import org.apache.kafka.common.TopicPartition
+import org.apache.kafka.common.header.internals.RecordHeader
+import org.apache.kafka.common.header.internals.RecordHeaders
 import org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer
+
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets
 import org.springframework.kafka.core.DefaultKafkaConsumerFactory
 import org.springframework.kafka.core.DefaultKafkaProducerFactory
 import org.springframework.kafka.core.KafkaTemplate
@@ -853,6 +857,36 @@ abstract class KafkaClientTestBase extends VersionedNamingTestBase {
     "true"  | true
   }
 
+  def "test producer extracts and uses existing trace context from record headers"() {
+    setup:
+    def senderProps = KafkaTestUtils.producerProps(embeddedKafka.getBrokersAsString())
+    def producer = new KafkaProducer<>(senderProps)
+
+    def existingTraceId = 1234567890123456L
+    def existingSpanId = 9876543210987654L
+    def headers = new RecordHeaders()
+    headers.add(new RecordHeader("x-datadog-trace-id",
+      String.valueOf(existingTraceId).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)))
+    headers.add(new RecordHeader("x-datadog-parent-id",
+      String.valueOf(existingSpanId).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)))
+
+    when:
+    def record = new ProducerRecord(SHARED_TOPIC, 0, null, "test-context-extraction", headers)
+    producer.send(record).get()
+
+    then:
+    TEST_WRITER.waitForTraces(1)
+    def producedSpan = TEST_WRITER[0][0]
+    // Verify the span used the extracted context as parent
+    producedSpan.traceId.toLong() == existingTraceId
+    producedSpan.parentId == existingSpanId
+    // Verify a new span was created (not reusing the extracted span ID)
+    producedSpan.spanId != existingSpanId
+
+    cleanup:
+    producer?.close()
+  }
+
   def producerSpan(
     TraceAssert trace,
     Map<String, ?> config,