Turn telemetry off for your organization

Claude Code sends Anthropic operational telemetry by default on sessions that use the Anthropic API, whether directly, through an LLM gateway, or through a custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL; Default behaviors by API provider says which providers send it. To turn it off for every developer without relying on each person's shell, deliver DISABLE_TELEMETRY through the env block of your managed settings. This example sets DISABLE_TELEMETRY for everyone the policy reaches:

{
  "env": {
    "DISABLE_TELEMETRY": "1"
  }
}

Claude Code applies a value of 1 without showing the user the approval dialog.

If you turn telemetry off, Claude Code stops sending the usage data that feeds your organization's analytics dashboard for the developers the policy reaches. The variable also turns off feature-flag fetching, which makes Remote Control, default auto mode, and the other features that need feature-flag fetching unavailable for those developers.

Where and when a policy applies says which delivery mechanism reaches each surface, and Platform availability says which sessions skip the server-managed settings fetch.

If your organization uses customer-managed encryption keys and routes Claude Code through a gateway, Configure proxies and gateways says why those sessions need this variable.