What's new from Grafana Labsbreadcrumb arrow Send OpenTelemetry traces to Agent Observability, no SDK required
What's new from Grafana Labs
What's new from Grafana Labs
Grafana Cloud Available in public preview AI
Release date
2026-10-19
Self-managed release
No self-managed release

Send OpenTelemetry traces to Agent Observability, no SDK required

You can now send OpenTelemetry traces straight to Agent Observability, without the SDK. If your agents already emit OpenTelemetry generative AI spans, from your framework, an instrumentation library, or spans you write yourself, keep your existing route through Grafana Alloy or an OpenTelemetry Collector and opt in your AI spans with a single attribute. Your agents then show up like any other service, next to the traces, metrics, and logs you already send to Grafana Cloud.

Building on Claude? The Claude Platform can now export traces directly to Grafana Cloud. Add Grafana Cloud as a destination in the Claude Console, and traces from Claude Managed Agents, the Messages API, and Claude SDKs land in Agent Observability with no code changes.

Instrument your agents with OTel today.

OpenTelemetry support in Agent Observability is in public preview in Grafana Cloud.


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