Use OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES to Track Claude Code Costs by Team

If you're rolling out Claude Code across multiple teams, you'll want to know who's spending what. The OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES environment variable lets you tag all telemetry data with custom attributes like team, department, or cost centre.

export CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_TELEMETRY=1
export OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER=otlp
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://collector.example.com:4317
export OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES="department=engineering,team.id=platform,cost_center=eng-123"

These attributes get attached to every metric and event Claude Code exports, so you can filter dashboards, set up per-team alerts, and track costs by cost centre in your observability backend.

For centralized deployment, push these settings through managed settings so every developer gets the right tags automatically:

{
  "env": {
    "CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_TELEMETRY": "1",
    "OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES": "department=engineering,team.id=platform"
  }
}

One gotcha: values in OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES cannot contain spaces. Use underscores or camelCase instead. org.name=My Company will break, but org.name=My_Company works fine.

Tag your telemetry by team so you always know where the tokens are going.

via Claude Code Docs — Monitoring Usage