Coding-agent telemetry now shows who acted and what was stopped
Copilot can now attribute activity to a user without capturing content, and Claude Code logs stopped tool calls. What to collect and how to read it.
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Seeing what software and AI tools actually do: traces, logs and metrics.
Claude API OpenTelemetry export: what the spans hold and how to count them
Anthropic's API can now send OpenTelemetry spans to your own backend. What the content modes capture, how delivery works, and why token counts need care.
Claude Code's idle compaction: a summary instead of a cache rebuild
Claude Code now compacts long idle sessions just before the one-hour prompt cache expires. What that saves, what it costs, and how to see it in telemetry.
MITRE ATT&CK v20 adds prompt injection techniques: how to use the new IDs
ATT&CK v20 gives direct and indirect prompt injection, AI-enabled exfiltration and two related behaviours their own IDs. What changed, and the gaps to plan for.
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Stateless MCP in production: running old and new protocol versions side by side
Azure MCP Server 3.0 and Red Hat's MCP gateway now speak the 2026-07-28 protocol. What their releases show about version negotiation, lost features and audit.
Sonnet 5.5's cache-read price cut: what it does to coding agent bills
Anthropic halved Sonnet 5.5 cache reads on 7 October 2026. A worked example of what that means for an agent turn, and why cache misses now matter more.
Copilot license and repository accounts can now differ: keep attribution intact
The Copilot app and VS Code now let one account hold the Copilot license and another reach the code. What that changes for identity, telemetry and audit.
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Introducing the SpanDock blog
What the SpanDock blog will publish: product news, step-by-step guides and researched articles on AI coding tools, MCP, cost and security.
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Capturing prompts in AI telemetry is a privacy decision, not a setting
AI coding tools can export prompts, tool arguments and full API bodies. Why it's off by default, the risks of switching it on, and how to decide.
Get told when a server needs you: notifications on your account dashboard
Connect a SpanDock server's notifications to your spandock.com dashboard, choose which kinds to see, and send a test. In every plan.
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Prompt caching: the AI cost control most teams don't measure
Cached input costs a tenth of the normal price on major APIs. How prompt caching works, why coding agents depend on it, and how to see whether yours hits.
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Observing AI coding tools with OpenTelemetry: what you can measure today
Claude Code, Codex and Copilot now emit OpenTelemetry. What the GenAI conventions cover, what the tools actually send, and how to start measuring.
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