September 23, 2026
GitHub Copilot agent work can be examined step by step: OTel is enabled in company settings
Since September 22, the GitHub Copilot app has been sending agent activity data to OpenTelemetry. An administrator enables export in managed-settings.json and specifies the receiving endpoint.
Since July 27, the GitHub Copilot app has read managed-settings.json for CLI and VS Code. Now GitHub Copilot accepts a telemetry block in that file, so teams can inspect agent requests to models and tools during a session.
An administrator specifies the endpoint and the http/json or http/protobuf protocol. Prompts and model responses are not included in telemetry by default.
Settings do not arrive immediately. In server-managed deployments, the JSON policy is placed in a .github-private repository. It usually takes about 1 hour to apply, while restarting the client or signing in again triggers an immediate update.
In server-managed deployments, settings take about 1 hour to apply.
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