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 #### Interceptors
 
-Basic example to use a producer interceptor that produces oTel spans and add some headers for each intercepted message.
+Basic example to use a producer interceptor that produces [OpenTelemetry](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go/) spans and add some headers for each intercepted message.
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