OTel Telemetry Spec (April 2026)
- Entity ID:
ent-20260419-48ec7e38530d - Type:
document - Scope:
shared - Status:
active - Aliases: Claude Code OTel spec, monitoring-usage docs
Description
Official OpenTelemetry spec shipped alongside the Monitor tool, covering metrics (standard metrics protocol), events (logs/events protocol), and distributed traces (beta spans linking prompts to API requests to tool executions). Feature-flagged behind CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_TELEMETRY and CLAUDE_CODE_ENHANCED_TELEMETRY_BETA.
Key claims
- Monitor tool + TRACEPARENT enables end-to-end distributed traces
- Distributed tracing is beta and off by default
Relations
- W3C TRACEPARENT Propagation --[implements]--> OTel Telemetry Spec (April 2026)
- Monitor Tool --[related_to]--> OTel Telemetry Spec (April 2026)