# Enterprise-managed OpenTelemetry export for VS Code and CLI > Source: > Published: 2026-07-08 20:50:07+00:00 # Enterprise-managed OpenTelemetry export for VS Code and CLI Organizations can now mandate where GitHub Copilot sends [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/) (OTel) data, so telemetry flows to an approved collector without each developer setting `OTEL_*` environment variables. The configuration is delivered through the `telemetry` block in enterprise-managed settings and applies to both the Copilot Chat extension in VS Code and the agent host process that powers Copilot CLI. Administrators can control: - The OTLP export endpoint and transport protocol ( `otlp-http` or`otlp-grpc` ). - The OTel service name and resource attributes. - Exporter headers, such as an authentication token for the collector. - Whether prompt, response, and tool content is captured, and whether developers can change that. A managed value always wins, taking precedence over environment variables and user settings. Deliver these settings through any of the supported channels: native MDM (Windows Registry or macOS managed preferences), server-managed settings resolved from the signed-in GitHub account, or a file-based `managed-settings.json` . For security, managed exporter headers are applied only to the Copilot Chat extension’s OTLP exporter and are never passed through environment variables, so a value such as an authentication token can’t leak into the tool subprocesses that the agent host spawns. This builds on [enterprise managed settings](https://docs.github.com/copilot/how-tos/administer-copilot/manage-for-enterprise/manage-agents/configure-enterprise-managed-settings) and joins the growing set of Copilot governance controls available across VS Code and Copilot CLI. To learn more, see [Configure telemetry export with OpenTelemetry](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/enterprise/ai-settings#_configure-telemetry-export-with-opentelemetry) and [Monitor agent usage with OpenTelemetry](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/guides/monitoring-agents). Join the discussion within [GitHub Community](https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/199139).