you mention traces

but the documentation only specifies metrics and logs

https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/monitoring-usage

am i missing something here? or is this a case where they were lazy to do traces in the claude code sdk, so its logs + log attributes?

You can get traces out of every agent framework that doesn't suck. You might need to collect from a proxy to get them from Claude because Anthropic is bigtime amateur hour.