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Create a Telemetry Destination

$ ant beta:organization:telemetry-destinations create
POST/v1/organizations/telemetry_destinations

Register an OpenTelemetry destination for the organization.

The destination starts in state enabled. An organization can have at most 10 destinations, including disabled ones.

See the OpenTelemetry export guide to learn more about adding a destination.

Parameters
--endpoint-url: string

The base URL of your collector's OTLP/HTTP endpoint, for example https://gateway.example.com.

The URL must use https and a hostname, not an IP address. The port, if given, must be 443. The URL must not contain a query string, a fragment, or a username and password. At most 2,048 characters.

A path prefix, such as /otlp, is allowed. Don't include the per-signal path (/v1/traces), because the API appends it on delivery. If your collector takes traces on another path, also set traces.endpoint_url.

minLength1
maxLength2048
--display-name: optional string

Human-readable name for the destination. Optional. 1 to 255 characters.

--headers: optional map[string]

Request headers that the API sends with every delivery, typically your collector's authentication header (for example authorization).

The API stores the values encrypted and never returns them. Reads show only header_names.

At most 20 headers. Names are at most 128 characters. Two names can't differ only in case. Values are printable ASCII, at most 4,096 characters, and can't begin or end with a space. Names and values together are at most 16,384 bytes.

Reserved names are rejected, for example host, cookie, user-agent, and names that start with content-, proxy-, x-forwarded-, or anthropic-. For this check, _ in a name counts as -.

--traces: optional object{ content_mode, enabled, endpoint_url, max_content_bytes }

The settings for the traces that the destination receives. If you leave it out, every setting takes its default.

--beta: optional array of AnthropicBeta⁠Header parameter

This endpoint is in beta: requests must send telemetry-destinations-2026-08-11 in this header.

Returns
beta_telemetry_destination: object{ type: "telemetry_destination", id, created_at, 8 more }

An OpenTelemetry destination: an OTLP/HTTP endpoint, the request headers sent with every delivery to it, what the exported spans contain, and which workspaces it covers. A destination belongs to an organization. A workspace's spans go to every enabled destination that covers it.

type: "telemetry_destination"
id: string

The unique ID of the destination (tdst_...).

created_at: string

Time the destination was created.

formatdate-time
delivery_health: object{ last_error, last_error_at, last_success_at }

The most recent delivery results for this destination.

last_error: string

A message that describes the most recent failed delivery to the destination, or null if no delivery has failed yet.

Examples are temporary DNS failure, TLS failure, timeout, connection failure, invalid address, HTTP error (status 503), and redirect (status 301). The message is invalid address both for a hostname that doesn't exist and for an address that isn't publicly routable. It never contains the endpoint's response body, a header value, a network address, or TLS details.

last_error and last_error_at always change together. A later successful delivery doesn't clear them. If last_success_at is later than last_error_at, a delivery has succeeded since this failure.

See the OpenTelemetry export guide to learn the likely cause of each error.

last_error_at: string

Time of the failure that last_error describes. Changes together with last_error. Null until a delivery first fails.

formatdate-time
last_success_at: string

Time of the most recent successful delivery to the destination, or null if no delivery has succeeded yet.

formatdate-time
display_name: string

Human-readable name for the destination. Null when none was set.

endpoint_url: string

The base URL of the destination's OTLP/HTTP endpoint, exactly as registered.

The API appends the per-signal path, such as /v1/traces, on delivery, unless traces.endpoint_url is set.

header_names: array of string

Names of the registered request headers. Header values are write-only and are never returned.

state: BetaTelemetryDestinationStateEnabled or BetaTelemetryDestinationStateDisabled

Whether the destination receives deliveries.

One of the following:
beta_telemetry_destination_state_enabled: object{ type: "enabled" }

The telemetry destination receives the spans of the workspaces that it covers.

type: "enabled"
beta_telemetry_destination_state_disabled: object{ type: "disabled", reason }

The API doesn't deliver anything to the telemetry destination.

Spans produced while it is disabled aren't delivered later.

type: "disabled"
reason: BetaTelemetryDestinationDisabledReasonCaller or BetaTelemetryDestinationDisabledReasonSustainedFailure or BetaTelemetryDestinationDisabledReasonInvalidAddress or BetaTelemetryDestinationDisabledReasonRedirect

Whether a caller or the API disabled the destination and, when the API did, why. Read-only.

One of the following:
beta_telemetry_destination_disabled_reason_caller: object{ type: "caller" }

A caller disabled the destination with an update that set state to disabled.

type: "caller"
beta_telemetry_destination_disabled_reason_sustained_failure: object{ type: "sustained_failure" }

The API disabled the destination because deliveries to it failed, with no successful delivery in between, for longer than a threshold that Anthropic configures and that is not part of this contract. The reason is invalid_address instead when the most recent failed delivery failed with an invalid address.

type: "sustained_failure"
beta_telemetry_destination_disabled_reason_invalid_address: object{ type: "invalid_address" }

The API disabled the destination because deliveries to it failed for longer than the same threshold as for sustained_failure, and the most recent failed delivery failed with an invalid address: the DNS answer says that the endpoint's hostname doesn't exist or doesn't have an address, or the address that the API would connect to isn't publicly routable or is reserved, for example a loopback, link-local, private-network, or cloud-metadata address. The API doesn't connect to such an address, and retries the delivery a bounded number of times as it does after a timeout. A timeout or a server failure of the DNS lookup is a temporary DNS failure instead, not an invalid address.

type: "invalid_address"
beta_telemetry_destination_disabled_reason_redirect: object{ type: "redirect" }

The API disabled the destination because the endpoint answered a delivery with a 3xx status. Redirects are never followed, and one such answer disables the destination at once.

type: "redirect"
traces: object{ content_mode, enabled, endpoint_url, max_content_bytes }

The destination's settings for the traces it receives.

content_mode: "metadata_only" or "content"

What the exported spans contain.

One of the following:
"metadata_only"

The spans contain identifiers, timing, status, token counts, and similar metadata. They don't contain prompt text, completion text, or tool inputs and outputs.

"content"

The spans contain the same metadata as metadata_only, plus message and tool content.

An organization with a data-handling restriction, such as under HIPAA, can't choose this mode. The API exports only metadata for such an organization, even to a destination that already has content.

enabled: boolean

Whether the destination receives traces. A destination whose enabled is false keeps its other settings.

endpoint_url: string

The full URL that the API posts traces to, exactly as registered, or null if the destination doesn't have one.

When it is null, the API posts traces to endpoint_url with /v1/traces appended.

max_content_bytes: number

The most bytes of content that one exported span can contain, or null if only the API's maximum applies.

Content means model prompts and responses, and tool inputs and outputs. The API shortens longer content to this size before it delivers the span. A destination whose content_mode is metadata_only keeps this value. It applies once content_mode is content.

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updated_at: string

Time of the last change to the destination's configuration or state. Changes to delivery_health don't change it.

An update that sets a header value always changes it, even when the value is the same as before. Adding or removing a single workspace on the destination's list doesn't change it. An update that changes the list does.

formatdate-time
workspaces: BetaTelemetryDestinationWorkspacesAll or BetaTelemetryDestinationWorkspacesInclude or BetaTelemetryDestinationWorkspacesExclude

Which of the organization's workspaces the destination covers.

One of the following:
beta_telemetry_destination_workspaces_all: object{ type: "all" }

The destination covers every workspace of the organization, including the default workspace, archived workspaces, and workspaces created later. It doesn't have a list.

type: "all"
beta_telemetry_destination_workspaces_include: object{ type: "include" }

The destination covers the workspaces on its list, and no others.

type: "include"
beta_telemetry_destination_workspaces_exclude: object{ type: "exclude" }

The destination covers every workspace of the organization except the workspaces on its list. A workspace created later is covered until it is added to the list.

type: "exclude"
Create a Telemetry Destination
ant beta:organization:telemetry-destinations create \
  --api-key my-anthropic-api-key \
  --endpoint-url x \
  --workspaces '{type: all}'
Returns Examples
Response 200
{
  "id": "id",
  "created_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "delivery_health": {
    "last_error": "last_error",
    "last_error_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
    "last_success_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z"
  },
  "display_name": "display_name",
  "endpoint_url": "endpoint_url",
  "header_names": [
    "string"
  ],
  "state": {
    "type": "enabled"
  },
  "traces": {
    "content_mode": "metadata_only",
    "enabled": true,
    "endpoint_url": "endpoint_url",
    "max_content_bytes": 0
  },
  "type": "telemetry_destination",
  "updated_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "workspaces": {
    "type": "all"
  }
}