Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
TelemetryArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.280,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code added a new event, usage_limit_wait_heartbeat, to its list of known telemetry states. It fires periodically while a session is waiting for a usage limit to lift.
Why
This gives visibility into how long and how often sessions spend waiting on usage limits, which was not previously tracked as its own recurring event.
