What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
The OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER, OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER, and OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER environment variables are now each computed individually based on the telemetry.forward_to configuration setting, rather than always being fixed to "otlp" (a standard telemetry export protocol).
Why
This lets you route metrics, logs, and traces to different backends per signal type instead of being forced to send all three the same way, giving more flexible control over where telemetry data ends up.
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.
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up telemetry.forward_to, on Claude apps gateway configuration.| `provider: anthropic` upstreams, Workload Identity Federation token exchange, `telemetry.forward_to` exports | Resolved and checked locally, then `CONNECT` to the checked IP address through the proxy. A telemetry collector listed in `NO_…claude-apps-gateway-configsee the edit
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER, on Claude apps gateway configuration.* `OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER`, `OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER`, and `OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER`, each set to `otlp` if at least one `forward_to` destination enables that signal and to `none` otherwiseclaude-apps-gateway-configsee the edit
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER, on Claude apps gateway configuration.* `OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER`, `OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER`, and `OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER`, each set to `otlp` if at least one `forward_to` destination enables that signal and to `none` otherwiseclaude-apps-gateway-configsee the edit
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER, on Claude apps gateway configuration.* `OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER`, `OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER`, and `OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER`, each set to `otlp` if at least one `forward_to` destination enables that signal and to `none` otherwiseclaude-apps-gateway-configsee the edit
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER, on Claude apps gateway configuration.