The otlpTracesEnabled setting's title and description no longer mention beta status: "Export traces (beta)" is now "Export traces", and the description now refers to "Claude Code's session tracing" instead of "Claude Code's session-tracing beta".
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The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
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A small documentation edit on Telemetry and egress touched a line naming otlpTracesEnabled after this was published.
With `otlpEndpoint` set, `otlpTracesEnabled` alone decides whether Cowork and Code sessions export traces. Leaving it unset or `false` keeps traces off even when Claude Code's own settings on the device, including managed settings, turn tr…third-party/claude-desktop/telemetry see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up otlpTracesEnabled, on Changelog.
* Fixed Claude Code's own settings on the device (a user's or project's settings file, or a `managed-settings.json`) being able to turn OpenTelemetry trace export back on after an administrator configured a collector with traces off; with …cowork/changelog see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up otlpTracesEnabled, on Changelog.