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 v2.1.307,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
Unclear It is not known what the extra step does or whether exported metrics look any different.
What
OpenTelemetry is a standard for sending usage metrics to a monitoring system you run. Claude Code can export metrics this way using the protocol you choose with OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_METRICS_PROTOCOL. For both grpc and http/protobuf, it now prepares an extra resource before it creates the exporter.