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OTLP exports can now reuse your inference credential for authentication instead of static headers.
A new otlpAuthMode setting lets OTLP collector authentication reuse the signed-in inference credential, sending it as Authorization: Bearer <token> on OTLP exports instead of relying only on static headers.
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up otlpAuthMode, on Configuration reference.
| <span id="otlpauthmode" />Collector authentication<br />`otlpAuthMode` | `enum` | MDM + Bootstrap<br />Added in 1.30096.1 | — | inference-credential sends the user’s inference bearer token to the collector as Authorization: Bearer. One o…third-party/claude-desktop/configuration see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up otlpAuthMode, on Configuration reference.