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Developer configures Claude Code to exclude user emails from telemetry

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A developer has detailed a method to prevent user email addresses from being included in telemetry data exported from Claude Code. By configuring an OpenTelemetry Collector, specific environment variables can be set to enable telemetry, while a processor is used to delete the user.email attribute before data is written to local files. This approach ensures that token usage and cost data are recorded without exposing personal email addresses, maintaining privacy while still allowing for usage tracking. AI

IMPACT Provides a privacy-preserving method for tracking AI tool usage, potentially influencing how developers implement and manage telemetry.

RANK_REASON Technical guide on configuring a specific software product's telemetry.

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Developer configures Claude Code to exclude user emails from telemetry

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  1. dev.to — Claude Code tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Jeremy Longshore ·

    Claude Code OpenTelemetry: Drop user.email, Sum the Deltas

    <p>If you want to record your own or your team's Claude Code telemetry (token, cost and session usage), its OpenTelemetry export (sent over OTLP, the open standard protocol for logs and metrics) will do it, and it writes your signed-in account email onto log records and metric po…

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