diff --git a/docs/shared/distributed-trace-receive/distributed-trace-receive.asciidoc b/docs/shared/distributed-trace-receive/distributed-trace-receive.asciidoc
index 6487d9379ce..776ffacbefb 100644
--- a/docs/shared/distributed-trace-receive/distributed-trace-receive.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/shared/distributed-trace-receive/distributed-trace-receive.asciidoc
@@ -2,9 +2,15 @@
 
 // Need help with this example
 
+<<<<<<< HEAD:docs/shared/distributed-trace-receive/distributed-trace-receive.asciidoc
 1. Parse the incoming TraceContext with
 https://godoc.org/go.elastic.co/apm/module/apmhttp#ParseTraceparentHeader[`ParseTraceparentHeader`] or
 https://godoc.org/go.elastic.co/apm/module/apmhttp#ParseTracestateHeader[`ParseTracestateHeader`].
+=======
+1. Parse the incoming `TraceContext` with
+https://pkg.go.dev/go.elastic.co/apm/module/apmhttp/v2#ParseTraceparentHeader[`ParseTraceparentHeader`] or
+https://pkg.go.dev/go.elastic.co/apm/module/apmhttp/v2#ParseTracestateHeader[`ParseTracestateHeader`].
+>>>>>>> 7e4babf9b (docs: Fix Go distributed tracing example (#11854)):docs/tab-widgets/distributed-trace-receive.asciidoc
 
 2. Start a new transaction or span as a child of the incoming transaction with
 {apm-go-ref}/api.html#tracer-api-start-transaction-options[`StartTransactionOptions`] or
@@ -21,7 +27,7 @@ traceContext.State, _ = apmhttp.ParseTracestateHeader(r.Header["Tracestate"]...)
 opts := apm.TransactionOptions{
 	TraceContext: traceContext, <3>
 }
-transaction := apm.DefaultTracer.StartTransactionOptions("GET /", "request", opts) <4>
+transaction := apm.DefaultTracer().StartTransactionOptions("GET /", "request", opts) <4>
 ----
 <1> Parse the TraceParent header
 <2> Parse the tracestate header
diff --git a/docs/shared/distributed-trace-send/distributed-trace-send.asciidoc b/docs/shared/distributed-trace-send/distributed-trace-send.asciidoc
index 5d6c5580d8b..9534ed791cf 100644
--- a/docs/shared/distributed-trace-send/distributed-trace-send.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/shared/distributed-trace-send/distributed-trace-send.asciidoc
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ Example:
 
 [source,go]
 ----
-transaction := apm.DefaultTracer.StartTransaction("GET /", "request") <1>
+transaction := apm.DefaultTracer().StartTransaction("GET /", "request") <1>
 traceContext := transaction.TraceContext() <2>
 
 // Send TraceContext to receiving service
-traceparent := apmhttp.FormatTraceparentHeader(traceContext)) <3>
+traceparent := apmhttp.FormatTraceparentHeader(traceContext) <3>
 tracestate := traceContext.State.String()
 ----
 <1> Start a transaction