Product Updates
[ What's launched at LaunchDarkly ]
July 14, 2026
Experimentation
Guarded Release
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.


