A developer shares insights from setting up a Claude Code telemetry dashboard using BetterStack and OpenTelemetry. Key findings include: Anthropic is heavily subsidizing Claude Code (API costs are roughly 9x the subscription price), subagents silently default to cheaper models like Haiku and Sonnet, token volumes are dominated

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Setting Up the Telemetry PipelineBuilding the DashboardWhat the Dashboard Revealed

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