We've launched OpenTelemetry export in beta

What shipped

On 2026-10-14, Anthropic launched OpenTelemetry export in beta for tracing Messages API requests and Claude Managed Agents sessions in an observability backend, with Claude SDK spans in Python, TypeScript, C#, Go, Java, PHP, and Ruby and an OpenTelemetry destination configured in the Claude Console for API spans.

What this means for your business

For teams running invoice extraction through the Messages API or report preparation through Claude Managed Agents, Anthropic's OpenTelemetry export is a candidate for reducing investigation time after failed work, not evidence that failures will decrease. This week, connect one noncritical workflow to the existing observability backend and inspect the traces alongside a known failed run. Assign an owner to check trace completeness and decide which staff can inspect the exported data. Budget time to review data handling and any backend ingestion charges rather than treating telemetry as free overhead. Hold off on replacing existing monitoring or making the beta export the sole record used to investigate production failures.

Still open

The export is explicitly beta; pricing, regional availability, trace retention, and completeness of emitted data are not established by the supplied evidence.

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