# Set up OpenTelemetry for OpenAI Codex
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OpenAI Codex emits OpenTelemetry (OTel) metrics about token usage, per-turn latency, API requests, tool calls, and approvals. When you send these metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, they populate the Codex tab of the Coding Agent Insights dashboards. For more information about the dashboards, see [Coding Agent Insights](coding-agents-insights.md).

Codex configures its metrics exporter through the `[otel]` section of its `config.toml` file. Two setup paths are available, depending on how your developers run Codex.

## Choose a setup path
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+ **Bearer token** — Codex sends OTLP metrics directly to the CloudWatch native OTLP endpoint, authenticating with an `Authorization: Bearer` header. Identity and organizational attributes are supplied through the `OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES` environment variable. This path needs no collector and is the fastest way for an individual developer or a small team to get started. See [Set up OpenAI Codex with a bearer token](coding-agents-codex-bearer-token.md).
+ **Enterprise rollout** — For organizations that federate developer identity through corporate single sign-on (SSO) such as Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, or AWS IAM Identity Center, centralize Amazon Bedrock access, and distribute a standard configuration to a fleet of developers. Identity and organizational attributes are derived from your identity provider (IdP). See [Set up OpenAI Codex for an enterprise rollout](coding-agents-codex-enterprise.md).

**Note**  
The bearer token path configures only how Codex sends *telemetry* to CloudWatch; it is independent of how Codex calls a model for *inference*, so you can use it with any model provider. The enterprise rollout, in contrast, is built around centralized Amazon Bedrock access, so Amazon Bedrock is the inference backend for that path. To use Amazon Bedrock for inference with Codex, see [Amazon Bedrock](https://developers.openai.com/codex/amazon-bedrock) in the OpenAI Codex documentation.

For the complete, continually updated guidance, including deployment templates and setup scripts, see the [guidance for Codex on Amazon Bedrock](https://github.com/openai-on-aws/guidance-codex) on GitHub.

**Topics**
+ [Choose a setup path](#coding-agents-codex-paths)
+ [Set up OpenAI Codex with a bearer token](coding-agents-codex-bearer-token.md)
+ [Set up OpenAI Codex for an enterprise rollout](coding-agents-codex-enterprise.md)