Anthropic Adds OpenTelemetry Traces to Claude Managed Agents and Messages API

Anthropic opened a public beta for OpenTelemetry traces from Claude Managed Agents, the Messages API, and Claude SDKs, including MCP server calls. What to verify.

Anthropic opened a public beta for OpenTelemetry traces from Claude Managed Agents, the Messages API, and Claude SDKs, including MCP server calls. What to verify.

The 8 best LangSmith alternatives for 2026, compared on self-hosting, licence, tracing, evals, and price, with a same-workload cost table and a step-by-step plan to migrate off LangSmith.

We compared 12 AI agent observability tools on tracing, OpenTelemetry, evals, alerts, cost tracking, self-hosting, and pricing, with sourced prices as of October 2026 and a pick for every team type.