diff --git a/testing/trino-testing/src/main/java/io/trino/testing/DistributedQueryRunner.java b/testing/trino-testing/src/main/java/io/trino/testing/DistributedQueryRunner.java
index 4776bb767f7c..28c7553364f4 100644
--- a/testing/trino-testing/src/main/java/io/trino/testing/DistributedQueryRunner.java
+++ b/testing/trino-testing/src/main/java/io/trino/testing/DistributedQueryRunner.java
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ protected SELF self()
         public DistributedQueryRunner build()
                 throws Exception
         {
-            String tracingEnabled = firstNonNull(getenv("TRACING"), "false");
+            String tracingEnabled = firstNonNull(getenv("TESTS_TRACING_ENABLED"), "false");
             if (parseBoolean(tracingEnabled) || tracingEnabled.equals("1")) {
                 withTracing();
             }