diff --git a/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/PerformanceTestTrait.php b/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/PerformanceTestTrait.php
index 8e1d6b18b0ff08af2efd8518958741f397c841bc..5315fd1cbd97adabdd373abec732af7ad4624884 100644
--- a/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/PerformanceTestTrait.php
+++ b/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/PerformanceTestTrait.php
@@ -313,7 +313,11 @@ private function openTelemetryTracing(array $messages, string $service_name): vo
       ResourceAttributes::DEPLOYMENT_ENVIRONMENT => 'local',
     ])));
 
-    $transport = (new OtlpHttpTransportFactory())->create($collector, 'application/x-protobuf');
+    $otel_collector_headers = getenv('OTEL_COLLECTOR_HEADERS') ?: [];
+    if ($otel_collector_headers) {
+      $otel_collector_headers = json_decode($otel_collector_headers, TRUE);
+    }
+    $transport = (new OtlpHttpTransportFactory())->create($collector, 'application/x-protobuf', $otel_collector_headers);
     $exporter = new SpanExporter($transport);
     $tracerProvider = new TracerProvider(new SimpleSpanProcessor($exporter), NULL, $resource);
     $tracer = $tracerProvider->getTracer('Drupal');