diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/cms.sh.j2 b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/cms.sh.j2
index b85021300ff..c2f20ce3a16 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/cms.sh.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/cms.sh.j2
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ export DD_TRACE_LOG_STREAM_HANDLER=false
 
 # Suppress middleware spans because there are about 100 for each request.
 # Remove (or set to true) for debugging.
-export DD_DJANGO_INSTRUMENT_MIDDLEWARE=false
+# Temporarily enabled as part of https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/879
+export DD_DJANGO_INSTRUMENT_MIDDLEWARE=true
 {% endif -%}
 
 # We want to be able to toggle this on separately from DD in general.
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/lms.sh.j2 b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/lms.sh.j2
index fc8e295cb59..730f313a060 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/lms.sh.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/lms.sh.j2
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ export DD_TRACE_LOG_STREAM_HANDLER=false
 
 # Suppress middleware spans because there are about 100 for each request.
 # Remove (or set to true) for debugging.
-export DD_DJANGO_INSTRUMENT_MIDDLEWARE=false
+# Temporarily enabled as part of https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/879
+export DD_DJANGO_INSTRUMENT_MIDDLEWARE=true
 
 {% endif -%}
 
diff --git a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/worker.sh.j2 b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/worker.sh.j2
index 457c0120445..95dd4023ef2 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/worker.sh.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/edxapp/templates/edx/app/edxapp/worker.sh.j2
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ export DD_TRACE_LOG_STREAM_HANDLER=false
 
 # Suppress middleware spans because there are about 100 for each request.
 # Remove (or set to true) for debugging.
-export DD_DJANGO_INSTRUMENT_MIDDLEWARE=false
+# Temporarily enabled as part of https://github.com/edx/edx-arch-experiments/issues/879
+export DD_DJANGO_INSTRUMENT_MIDDLEWARE=true
 {% endif -%}
 
 # We want to be able to toggle this on separately from DD in general.