{"version":"2.1.288","anchor":"otel-prompt-logging-scrubs-account-memory-text","canonical_anchor":"otel-prompt-logging-scrubs-account-memory-text","heading":"Exported traces now hide account memory text in logged prompts","tier":"notice","area":"Telemetry","scope":"org","heads_up":true,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.288\/e\/otel-prompt-logging-scrubs-account-memory-text","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.288","markdown":"### Exported traces now hide account memory text in logged prompts\n\nWith `OTEL_LOG_USER_PROMPTS` on, logged prompts, outputs and tool data are now scrubbed of account memory text\n\n**Unclear.** Exactly what the cleaning step removes beyond account memory text is not shown.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code can send traces (records of what happened in a session) to monitoring tools using OpenTelemetry, a standard for that kind of data. With `OTEL_LOG_USER_PROMPTS` set, these traces include prompt text. That text used to be logged as it was.\n\nThe following are now passed through a cleaning step that removes account memory text, the notes saved to your account's memory:\n\n- system prompt and your prompts\n\n- model output\n\n- tool input and results\n\n- errors\n\nIf the account memory text cannot be picked out, the content is left out entirely.\n\n**Why**\n\nIf you export traces, your saved account memory no longer ends up in them. Some fields may come through empty.\n\n- Area: Telemetry\n- Names: `OTEL_LOG_USER_PROMPTS`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: org\n- Heads-up: yes"}