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July 14, 2026
Experimentation
Guarded Release
Eric Wang

Eric Wang

Creating metrics from OpenTelemetry traces now generally available

Traces are a fundamental part of application and LLM agent observability. You can now create Metrics by directly aggregating OpenTelemetry trace data to measure your outcomes and ensure safe releases with a Guarded Release.

This feature lets you run a Guarded Release with your observability data without re-instrumenting custom events using the track() method. Spans are collected via the Observability Plugin for the LaunchDarkly SDK. You can specify a trace query to filter and aggregate specific span dimensions to accurately define a guardrail for release.

Get started by reading our documentation.

Create a metric from a trace query