diff --git a/src/blaxel/core/common/autoload.py b/src/blaxel/core/common/autoload.py
index 96e2f063..1c2a3e26 100644
--- a/src/blaxel/core/common/autoload.py
+++ b/src/blaxel/core/common/autoload.py
@@ -21,11 +21,17 @@ def telemetry() -> None:
 def autoload() -> None:
     client.with_base_url(settings.base_url)
     client.with_auth(settings.auth)
-    # Send the Blaxel-Version header on every control-plane request so list
-    # endpoints return cursor-paginated `{data, meta}` responses (>= 2026-04-28).
-    # Without it the API falls back to legacy bare-array listings and pagination
-    # (limit/cursor/next_page) is silently ignored.
-    client.with_headers({"Blaxel-Version": settings.api_version})
+    # Send SDK-identifying headers on every control-plane request so backend
+    # observability can classify Python SDK traffic and list endpoints return
+    # cursor-paginated `{data, meta}` responses (>= 2026-04-28). Without the
+    # User-Agent httpx falls back to `python-httpx/<version>`, which is tracked
+    # as a generic API request instead of SDK usage.
+    client.with_headers(
+        {
+            "Blaxel-Version": settings.api_version,
+            "User-Agent": settings.headers["User-Agent"],
+        }
+    )
 
     # Register response interceptors for authentication error handling
     # Access the underlying httpx clients and add event hooks
diff --git a/tests/core/test_environment.py b/tests/core/test_environment.py
index 8120eccf..f2e1c616 100644
--- a/tests/core/test_environment.py
+++ b/tests/core/test_environment.py
@@ -123,6 +123,19 @@ def test_autoload_functionality():
             raise
 
 
+def test_autoload_sets_control_plane_user_agent():
+    """Control-plane requests should carry the Python SDK User-Agent."""
+    from blaxel.core.client import client
+    from blaxel.core.common.autoload import autoload
+    from blaxel.core.common.settings import settings
+
+    autoload()
+
+    assert client._headers["Blaxel-Version"] == settings.api_version
+    assert client._headers["User-Agent"] == settings.headers["User-Agent"]
+    assert client._headers["User-Agent"].startswith("blaxel/sdk/python/")
+
+
 def test_settings_properties():
     """Test that settings has the expected properties."""
     from blaxel.core.common.settings import settings