GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot exports OpenTelemetry natively — from Copilot Chat in VS Code and from the Copilot SDK / CLI. Point its OTLP exporter at your instance and sessions stream into Traces.

See Trace Coding Agents for the endpoints, API key, and what Everstack renders.

VS Code (Copilot Chat)

Enable OTel export in your VS Code settings:

{
  "github.copilot.chat.otel.enabled": true,
  "github.copilot.chat.otel.exporterType": "otlp-http",
  "github.copilot.chat.otel.otlpEndpoint": "https://<your-instance>"
}

The endpoint setting alone cannot carry an auth header, so pass the Everstack API key through the standard OTLP environment variable (VS Code inherits your shell environment):

export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL=http/protobuf
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS="Authorization=Bearer <your-api-key>"

You can also drive it entirely from the environment — COPILOT_OTEL_ENABLED=1 plus OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=https://<your-instance> — which activates OTel without the settings entries.

Copilot SDK / CLI

The Copilot SDK takes a TelemetryConfig with an otlpEndpoint:

const client = new CopilotClient({
  telemetry: { otlpEndpoint: "https://<your-instance>" },
});

The field name follows each SDK's casing (otlpEndpoint, otlp_endpoint, OTLPEndpoint, ...). Supply the Bearer API key via OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS as above.

Notes

• Copilot reports token usage but no dollar cost — Everstack computes it from your model-catalog pricing, so trace cost matches what you are billed.
• Copilot Chat and the SDK propagate W3C trace context, so your application's spans and Copilot's spans link into one trace when you instrument both.