OpenTelemetry visible UI

Feature Requests
1

We need a way to hide OpenTelemetry settings in UI via environment variable, similar to how N8N_HIDE_USAGE_PAGE hides the license/usage page.

Problem:
N8N_OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS may contain sensitive values (for example API key), and OTEL-related UI should be optionally hidden for customer-facing deployments.

Request:
Please add an environment variable, for example:

N8N_HIDE_OPENTELEMETRY_PAGE=true

Expected behavior:
When enabled, OpenTelemetry settings page is not visible in UI (same behavior pattern as N8N_HIDE_USAGE_PAGE).

Why this helps:

  • Prevents accidental exposure of observability configuration to end users
  • Improves security posture for embedded/OEM/customer-facing setups
  • Keeps behavior consistent with existing page-hiding controls

To Reproduce

  1. Having self hosted n8n
  2. Configure OTL using env variables
  3. Configure headers with sensitive data
  4. Go to settings

Expected behavior

It’s possible to hide sensitive fields and/or whole page which contains such fields which were set programmatically

2

Anyone, any news on that?

3

It’s been a while here. I raised issue on gut