diff --git a/.chloggen/print-tracestate.yaml b/.chloggen/print-tracestate.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ccb9f650984
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/print-tracestate.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Use this changelog template to create an entry for release notes.
+
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: enhancement
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. otlpreceiver)
+component: debugexporter
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Print Span.TraceState() when present.
+
+# One or more tracking issues or pull requests related to the change
+issues: [10421]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext: Enables viewing sampling threshold information (as by OTEP 235 samplers).
+
+# Optional: The change log or logs in which this entry should be included.
+# e.g. '[user]' or '[user, api]'
+# Include 'user' if the change is relevant to end users.
+# Include 'api' if there is a change to a library API.
+# Default: '[user]'
+change_logs: [user]
diff --git a/exporter/internal/otlptext/testdata/traces/two_spans.out b/exporter/internal/otlptext/testdata/traces/two_spans.out
index c8f7f8e8514..9cb3ac75038 100644
--- a/exporter/internal/otlptext/testdata/traces/two_spans.out
+++ b/exporter/internal/otlptext/testdata/traces/two_spans.out
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Span #0
     ID             : 1112131415161718
     Name           : operationA
     Kind           : Unspecified
+    TraceState     : ot=th:0
     Start time     : 2020-02-11 20:26:12.000000321 +0000 UTC
     End time       : 2020-02-11 20:26:13.000000789 +0000 UTC
     Status code    : Error
diff --git a/exporter/internal/otlptext/traces.go b/exporter/internal/otlptext/traces.go
index 8332a842e34..5d09a08ebad 100644
--- a/exporter/internal/otlptext/traces.go
+++ b/exporter/internal/otlptext/traces.go
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ func (textTracesMarshaler) MarshalTraces(td ptrace.Traces) ([]byte, error) {
 				buf.logAttr("ID", span.SpanID())
 				buf.logAttr("Name", span.Name())
 				buf.logAttr("Kind", span.Kind().String())
+				if ts := span.TraceState().AsRaw(); len(ts) != 0 {
+					buf.logAttr("TraceState", ts)
+				}
 				buf.logAttr("Start time", span.StartTimestamp().String())
 				buf.logAttr("End time", span.EndTimestamp().String())
 
diff --git a/pdata/testdata/trace.go b/pdata/testdata/trace.go
index 3d69ed3a425..779430af666 100644
--- a/pdata/testdata/trace.go
+++ b/pdata/testdata/trace.go
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ func fillSpanOne(span ptrace.Span) {
 	span.SetStartTimestamp(spanStartTimestamp)
 	span.SetEndTimestamp(spanEndTimestamp)
 	span.SetDroppedAttributesCount(1)
+	span.TraceState().FromRaw("ot=th:0") // 100% sampling
 	span.SetTraceID([16]byte{0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07, 0x08, 0x09, 0x0A, 0x0B, 0x0C, 0x0D, 0x0E, 0x0F, 0x10})
 	span.SetSpanID([8]byte{0x11, 0x12, 0x13, 0x14, 0x15, 0x16, 0x17, 0x18})
 	evs := span.Events()