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Claude Platform opens OpenTelemetry tracing beta: Messages API, Managed Agents and SDK spans flow to your own observability stack

On 2026-10-14 Anthropic put OpenTelemetry tracing for Claude Platform into public beta. Admins add a telemetry destination in the Claude Console and the API exports spans for Messages API requests and Managed Agents sessions server-side with no code changes, while the Claude SDKs export client-side spans for requests and tool-runner tools. Spans follow the OpenTelemetry gen_ai conventions and default to metadata (duration, status, token counts, model, tool names), with an optional full-content mode.

Claude Platform opens OpenTelemetry tracing beta: Messages API, Managed Agents and SDK spans flow to your own observability stack

Key Takeaways

  • Two paths: a server-side destination via Console/Admin API (Messages API + Managed Agents, no code changes) or client-side spans from the Claude SDK (overview)
  • Destinations need OTLP/HTTP with protobuf over HTTPS on port 443; the Admin API uses the anthropic-beta: telemetry-destinations-2026-08-11 header (API guide)
  • SDK tracing covers Python, TypeScript, Go and Java (anthropic-java 2.72.0+), and runs on Claude API, AWS, Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry, all in beta (SDK guide)
  • Metadata-only or full-content modes; ZDR customers can still export full content for Messages API requests (held in memory until delivered); Managed Agents is not ZDR-eligible
  • Anthropic warns span names and SDK options may change during the beta, so pin SDK versions
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Docker cagent 1.145.0: ACP request traces via W3C traceparent/tracestate, server spans on 13 handlers, lean TUI scrollback fix

Docker shipped cagent (docker-agent) v1.145.0 on 2026-09-28: ACP requests now propagate W3C traceparent/tracestate with server spans for each of the 13 implemented protocol handlers, plus new lint cops and a lean-TUI fix that preserves scrollback during partial streaming tool calls.

Docker cagent 1.145.0: ACP request traces via W3C traceparent/tracestate, server spans on 13 handlers, lean TUI scrollback fix

Key Takeaways

  • Shipped v1.145.0 — ACP W3C traceparent/tracestate + 13 handler spans
  • Lean TUI keeps scrollback during partial streaming tool calls
  • New FieldsSeqLookup / SlicesConcat lint cops
  • Docs: docker.github.io/docker-agent
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GitHub Copilot app adds OpenTelemetry: export agent traces to org monitoring via managed settings

GitHub Changelog (@GHchangelog) announced OpenTelemetry support in the Copilot app via enterprise-managed settings: admins export agent session activity to org-compatible monitoring to analyze sessions, investigate surprises, and manage telemetry centrally. Prompt/response content is excluded by default; configure telemetry in managed-settings.json with an export endpoint.

GitHub Copilot app adds OpenTelemetry: export agent traces to org monitoring via managed settings

Key Takeaways

  • Enterprise-managed settings enable Copilot app OpenTelemetry export.
  • Use cases: analyze agent sessions (model + tool calls), step-through unexpected behavior, centralize monitoring.
  • Prompt/response content excluded by default—review content-capture before enabling.
  • Set telemetry + endpoint in enterprise managed-settings.json. Concepts: OpenTelemetry for agent monitoring.
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Lattice Talk open-sources MCP so Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex can talk

@th3d4rkninja shipped Lattice Talk, an open-source MCP communication layer so Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex stop using the human as a message bus. Agents that share a session_id can discover each other, DM, join rooms, share project memory, coordinate across machines, and trace multi-agent workflows with OpenTelemetry. Aimed at MCP clients; open for PRs and API-credit sponsors.

Key Takeaways

  • Open-source MCP layer for Cursor / Claude Code / Codex interop.
  • Shared session_id enables discovery, DMs, rooms, project memory, cross-machine coordination.
  • Multi-agent workflows can be traced with OpenTelemetry.
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Telemetry: instrument Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, pi, omp, and OpenCode agents

Telemetry (@telemetrydev) launched an open-source instrumentation stack (github.com/telemetry-dev/telemetry) for coding agents—Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, pi, omp, and OpenCode—using OpenTelemetry to track tokens, cost, latency, and errors.

Key Takeaways

  • Product: open-source Telemetry agent instrumentation (OpenTelemetry).
  • Coverage: Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, pi, omp, OpenCode.
  • Metrics: tokens, cost, latency, and errors.
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AWS open-sources Agent-EvalKit: six-phase agent evals via slash commands in Claude Code / Kiro / Kilo

AWS open-sourced awslabs/Agent-EvalKit: run evals inside Claude Code, Kiro CLI, or Kilo Code via slash commands like /evalkit.plan and /evalkit.report. Six phases cover plan, data, OpenTelemetry traces, run, score, and code-linked fixes; a travel-research demo scored Response Quality 83.9%, Tool Parameter Accuracy 64.5%, Faithfulness 32.3%—pretty replies still invented temps and FX rates over empty tool results. An AWS ML blog documents the systematic eval approach.

Key Takeaways

  • Open source: awslabs/Agent-EvalKit with slash commands in Claude Code / Kiro / Kilo.
  • Pipeline: plan → data → OTel traces → run → score → code-linked fixes.
  • Insight: demo Faithfulness only 32.3%; empty tool results still hallucinate facts.
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