Azure & Cloud
October 16, 2026Claude OTel traces: the Azure Monitor path and Foundry gap
Anthropic's OpenTelemetry trace export went to public beta on 14 October 2026, but Azure Monitor is not a listed destination and Claude in Microsoft Foundry gets client-side SDK spans only. Three Azure paths (Collector on Container Apps, Microsoft OpenTelemetry Distro with managed identity, Agent SDK signals), the Entra-versus-static-header mismatch that forces the design, and the Application Insights cost math for full-content mode.
OpenTelemetry
Claude
Azure Monitor
Application Insights
Microsoft Foundry
Observability
AI Agents
GDPR
Managed Agents
By Falak Mahmood