Claude Platform opens OpenTelemetry export: trace Messages API calls and managed-agent sessions in your own backend

Claude Platform added OpenTelemetry export in beta, sending tracing data for Messages API requests and Claude Managed Agents sessions into a user's own observability backend. Previously that tracing stayed on the platform side and could not flow directly into a team's existing observability system. The export covers the Claude SDKs for Python, TypeScript, C#, Go, Java, PHP, and Ruby, which emit spans; getting spans from the API requires adding an OpenTelemetry destination in the Claude Console.

Adoption runs on two paths: SDKs emit spans on their own, while API-side spans come from a destination configured in the console. OpenTelemetry is a cross-language format for tracing and metrics data, and a span represents one recorded operation. API request spans appear only after an OpenTelemetry destination is added in the Claude Console, while the SDK side emits spans directly from the corresponding language SDK.

The export is in beta and targets developers using the Claude API and Claude Managed Agents, covering the Python, TypeScript, C#, Go, Java, PHP, and Ruby SDKs; API-side spans appear only after an OpenTelemetry destination is added in the Claude Console.

The release notes label the feature beta and do not describe span fields, sampling strategy, or export protocol details, nor give a general-availability date.