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OpenTelemetry in the GitHub Copilot app

Understand how Copilot agents perform and interact with models and tools. The GitHub Copilot app now supports OpenTelemetry (OTel) configuration through enterprise-managed settings. OTel is an open source observability framework.… The post OpenTelemetry in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

OpenTelemetry in the GitHub Copilot app
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Published September 23, 2026 · Category: AI Create

Overview

Understand how Copilot agents perform and interact with models and tools. The GitHub Copilot app now supports OpenTelemetry (OTel) configuration through enterprise-managed settings.
OTel is an open source observability framework. Administrators can use it to send agent activity data to their organization’s compatible monitoring tools. This helps teams:

  • Analyze agent sessions: Follow the flow of a session, including requests to AI models and the tools an agent uses.
  • Investigate unexpected behavior: Review step-by-step traces of agent execution in their existing monitoring tools.
  • Manage monitoring centrally: Apply telemetry settings across teams instead of requiring each developer to individually configure them.

Animated screen recording showing a GitHub Copilot conversation in Copilot app, followed by Splunk Observability Cloud’s Trace Analyzer displaying a selected trace, expanded span hierarchy, and span details.

Get started

Configure the telemetry property in your enterprise’s managed-settings.json file to enable export and specify the endpoint that will receive the data. Prompt and response content is excluded by default—review your content-capture settings before enabling it.

Details

Learn more about OpenTelemetry for agent monitoring and configuring enterprise-managed settings.

The post OpenTelemetry in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Source

Originally published at github.blog.

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