## The problem

Issue crewAIInc/crewAI#3789 (closed, 22 comments): ### Description The tracing prompt is repeatedly appearing during crew execution, adding approximately 20 seconds of overhead to each run. I need to disable tracing entirely but cannot find a way to do so. Steps taken: Set tracing=False on each crew instance Added CREWAI_TRACING_ENABLED [false] to .env file Expected behavior: Tracing should be completely disabled with no prompts appearing during execution. Actual behavior: The tracing prompt continues to appear regardless of the configuration, causing significant execution delays. Environment: CrewAI version: 0.193.2 Python version: 3.13.5 ### S

## The verified fix

Contributor Vidit-Ostwal: disable CrewAI telemetry only with os.environ['CREWAI_DISABLE_TELEMETRY'] = 'true', or disable all OpenTelemetry with os.environ['OTEL_SDK_DISABLED'] = 'true' (see docs.crewai.com/en/telemetry). Reporter TByte007 confirmed a code-level workaround also works: from crewai.events.listeners.tracing.utils import set_suppress_tracing_messages; set_suppress_tracing_messages(True).