Claude Platform adds OpenTelemetry tracing for API requests and Managed Agents, in beta

On October 14, 2026, Anthropic launched OpenTelemetry export in beta for Messages API requests and Claude Managed Agents sessions, with spans emitted by the Claude SDKs in seven languages.

Archive entry: this covers an event from October 14, 2026, and we published it on November 8, 2026. The details come from sources dated at the time and may have changed since.

On October 14, 2026, Anthropic launched OpenTelemetry export in beta on the Claude Platform, as described in its article Agent observability on the Claude Platform. Teams could use it to trace Messages API requests and Claude Managed Agents sessions in their own observability tools.

What changed

OpenTelemetry export was in beta for tracing Messages API requests and Claude Managed Agents sessions.
The Claude SDK emitted spans in Python, TypeScript, C#, Go, Java, PHP and Ruby.
Getting spans from the API itself required adding an OpenTelemetry destination in the Claude Console.
Claude traces followed the OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions, so data from Claude and from other providers worked in the same tools and dashboards.

What it meant for builders

Teams running Claude agents in production could see latency, tokens and failures per step in the observability stack they already used. Because the traces followed shared GenAI conventions, Claude data could sit next to data from other providers instead of needing a separate view.

Tools Anthropic named

For debugging agents next to the rest of the stack, Anthropic named Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb, Sentry and Splunk. For improving agents with production data, it named Arize AI, Braintrust, Datadog, Langfuse, LangSmith, New Relic and PostHog. Anthropic's Claude Platform release notes were a second source for the change.

Sources

Agent observability on the Claude Platform (Anthropic (Claude blog), October 14, 2026, official)
Claude Platform release notes - Claude Platform Docs (Anthropic (Claude Platform Docs), October 14, 2026, official)

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