diff --git a/services/groups/pkg/command/server.go b/services/groups/pkg/command/server.go
index 55a69ddfa..6226b9a2b 100644
--- a/services/groups/pkg/command/server.go
+++ b/services/groups/pkg/command/server.go
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@ import (
 	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/ocis-pkg/ldap"
 	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/ocis-pkg/registry"
 	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/ocis-pkg/sync"
+	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/ocis-pkg/tracing"
 	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/ocis-pkg/version"
 	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/services/groups/pkg/config"
 	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/services/groups/pkg/config/parser"
 	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/services/groups/pkg/logging"
 	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/services/groups/pkg/revaconfig"
 	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/services/groups/pkg/server/debug"
-	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/services/groups/pkg/tracing"
 	"github.com/urfave/cli/v2"
 )
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ func Server(cfg *config.Config) *cli.Command {
 		},
 		Action: func(c *cli.Context) error {
 			logger := logging.Configure(cfg.Service.Name, cfg.Log)
-			err := tracing.Configure(cfg, logger)
+			tracingProvider, err := tracing.GetServiceTraceProvider(cfg.Tracing, cfg.Service.Name)
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ func Server(cfg *config.Config) *cli.Command {
 				runtime.RunWithOptions(rCfg, pidFile,
 					runtime.WithLogger(&logger.Logger),
 					runtime.WithRegistry(reg),
+					runtime.WithTraceProvider(tracingProvider),
 				)
 
 				return nil
@@ -80,7 +81,6 @@ func Server(cfg *config.Config) *cli.Command {
 				debug.Context(ctx),
 				debug.Config(cfg),
 			)
-
 			if err != nil {
 				logger.Info().Err(err).Str("server", "debug").Msg("Failed to initialize server")
 				return err
diff --git a/services/groups/pkg/config/config.go b/services/groups/pkg/config/config.go
index 14f0d52b2..2572dbfdc 100644
--- a/services/groups/pkg/config/config.go
+++ b/services/groups/pkg/config/config.go
@@ -26,12 +26,6 @@ type Config struct {
 	Supervised bool            `yaml:"-"`
 	Context    context.Context `yaml:"-"`
 }
-type Tracing struct {
-	Enabled   bool   `yaml:"enabled" env:"OCIS_TRACING_ENABLED;GROUPS_TRACING_ENABLED" desc:"Activates tracing."`
-	Type      string `yaml:"type" env:"OCIS_TRACING_TYPE;GROUPS_TRACING_TYPE" desc:"The type of tracing. Defaults to '', which is the same as 'jaeger'. Allowed tracing types are 'jaeger' and '' as of now."`
-	Endpoint  string `yaml:"endpoint" env:"OCIS_TRACING_ENDPOINT;GROUPS_TRACING_ENDPOINT" desc:"The endpoint of the tracing agent."`
-	Collector string `yaml:"collector" env:"OCIS_TRACING_COLLECTOR;GROUPS_TRACING_COLLECTOR" desc:"The HTTP endpoint for sending spans directly to a collector, i.e. http://jaeger-collector:14268/api/traces. Only used if the tracing endpoint is unset."`
-}
 
 type Log struct {
 	Level  string `yaml:"level" env:"OCIS_LOG_LEVEL;GROUPS_LOG_LEVEL" desc:"The log level. Valid values are: 'panic', 'fatal', 'error', 'warn', 'info', 'debug', 'trace'."`
diff --git a/services/groups/pkg/config/tracing.go b/services/groups/pkg/config/tracing.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b7e2423ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/groups/pkg/config/tracing.go
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package config
+
+import "github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/ocis-pkg/tracing"
+
+// Tracing contains the tracing configuration.
+type Tracing struct {
+	Enabled   bool   `yaml:"enabled" env:"OCIS_TRACING_ENABLED;GROUPS_TRACING_ENABLED" desc:"Activates tracing."`
+	Type      string `yaml:"type" env:"OCIS_TRACING_TYPE;GROUPS_TRACING_TYPE" desc:"The type of tracing. Defaults to '', which is the same as 'jaeger'. Allowed tracing types are 'jaeger' and '' as of now."`
+	Endpoint  string `yaml:"endpoint" env:"OCIS_TRACING_ENDPOINT;GROUPS_TRACING_ENDPOINT" desc:"The endpoint of the tracing agent."`
+	Collector string `yaml:"collector" env:"OCIS_TRACING_COLLECTOR;GROUPS_TRACING_COLLECTOR" desc:"The HTTP endpoint for sending spans directly to a collector, i.e. http://jaeger-collector:14268/api/traces. Only used if the tracing endpoint is unset."`
+}
+
+// Convert Tracing to the tracing package's Config struct.
+func (t Tracing) Convert() tracing.Config {
+	return tracing.Config{
+		Enabled:   t.Enabled,
+		Type:      t.Type,
+		Endpoint:  t.Endpoint,
+		Collector: t.Collector,
+	}
+}
diff --git a/services/groups/pkg/tracing/tracing.go b/services/groups/pkg/tracing/tracing.go
deleted file mode 100644
index db09c1b29..000000000
--- a/services/groups/pkg/tracing/tracing.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-package tracing
-
-import (
-	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/ocis-pkg/log"
-	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/ocis-pkg/tracing"
-	"github.com/owncloud/ocis/v2/services/groups/pkg/config"
-	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace"
-)
-
-var (
-	// TraceProvider is the global trace provider for the service.
-	TraceProvider = trace.NewNoopTracerProvider()
-)
-
-func Configure(cfg *config.Config, logger log.Logger) error {
-	tracing.Configure(cfg.Tracing.Enabled, cfg.Tracing.Type, logger)
-	return nil
-}