Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
TelemetryArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.242,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
The new host comparison happens before the organisation setting is consulted. When workload-identity dispatch is active, the dispatch host (defaulting to api.anthropic.com when unset) is compared with the metrics endpoint host; a mismatch reports success without exporting anything, and a missing dispatch value also blocks the export. When that dispatch path is not active the check passes through.
Evidence
BigQuery metrics export: WIF dispatch host differs from the metrics endpoint host, skipping
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
