#2 Product of the week · Launched April 7, 2026
traceAI

traceAI

Open-source LLM tracing that speaks GenAI, not HTTP.

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  • Vel· 6mo ago

    GenAI observability has been broken for too long. TraceAI gets it right and this is the kind of observability layer every AI team needs but rarely has. Smart to make this open source and build trust first. Congrats team! 🚀

  • Rishav Hada· 6mo ago

    The lack of GenAI-native semantic conventions in OpenTelemetry is a real bottleneck right now. This will be superuseful!

  • Kartik NVJ· 6mo ago

    With this we believe the problem of observability and Conventional standard is solved for wider range of frameworks

  • vrinda damani· 6mo ago

    This is amazing, great launch and best part- its open source!

  • Nikhil Pareek[maker]· 6mo ago

    Hey DevHunt! 👋 I'm Nikhil from Future AGI, and I'm excited to share traceAI with you today. The Problem We're Solving If you're building with LLMs, you know the pain: your agent made 34 API calls, burned through your token budget, and returned the wrong answer. You have no idea why. Existing LLM tracing tools force you into a new vendor dashboard. But most teams already have observability infrastructure - Datadog, Grafana, Jaeger. Why add another? OpenTelemetry is the industry standard for application observability, but it was designed before AI existed. It understands HTTP latency. It has no concept of prompts, tokens, or reasoning chains. What traceAI Does??? traceAI is the proper GenAI semantic layer on top of OpenTelemetry. It captures everything that matters in your AI application: - Full prompts and completions - Token usage per call - Model parameters and settings - RAG retrieval steps and sources - Agent decisions and tool executions - Errors with full context - Latency at every layer And sends it to whatever observability backend you already use. Two lines of code: from traceai import trace_ai trace_ai.init() Your entire GenAI app is now traced automatically. Works with everything: - Languages: Python, TypeScript, Java, C# (with full parity) - Frameworks: OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, DSPy, Bedrock, Vertex AI, MCP, Vercel AI SDK, and 35+ more - Backends: Datadog, Grafana, Jaeger, or any OpenTelemetry-compatible tool - Actually follows GenAI semantic conventions. Not approximately. Correctly. So your traces are readable in any OTel backend without custom dashboards or parsing. - Zero lock-in. Your data goes where you want it. Switch backends anytime. We don't even collect your traces. - Open source. Forever. MIT licensed. Community-owned. We're not building a walled garden. Who Should Use This??? AI engineers debugging complex LLM pipelines Platform teams who refuse to adopt another vendor Anyone already running OTel who wants AI traces alongside application telemetry Teams building agentic systems who need production-grade observability What's Next??? We're actively working on: - Go language support - Expanded framework coverage Try It Now ⭐ GitHub: https://shorturl.at/GT9KZ 📖 Docs: https://shorturl.at/Yz8zv 💬 Discord: https://shorturl.at/zHp8Y

traceAI is OTel-native LLM tracing that actually works with your existing observability stack. ✓ Captures prompts, completions, tokens, retrievals, agent decisions ✓ Follows GenAI semantic conventions correctly ✓ Routes to any OTel backend—Datadog, Grafana, Jaeger, anywhere ✓ Python, TypeScript, Java, C# with full parity ✓ 35+ frameworks: OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, CrewAI, DSPy, and more ✓ Two lines of code to instrument your entire app No new vendor. No new dashboard. Open source (MIT).

traceAI provides open-source OTel-native tracing for LLMs, capturing prompts, completions, tokens and more.

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Developers building GenAI apps who need observability with existing OTel stacks
pricing
freemium
license
Apache-2.0
future-agi/traceAI 222 44Pythonupdated 17 days ago
works withDatadogGrafanaJaegerPythonTypeScriptJavaC#OpenAIAnthropicLangChainCrewAI

Key features

6 features of traceAI
  • Prompt & Completion Capture — Records prompts, completions, tokens, retrievals and agent decisions for full visibility.
  • OTel Backend Compatibility — Routes traces to any OpenTelemetry backend such as Datadog, Grafana or Jaeger.
  • Multi-language SDKs — Native libraries for Python, TypeScript, Java and C# with feature parity.
  • Framework Support — Integrates with 35+ LLM frameworks including OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain and CrewAI.
  • Zero-Vendor Lock-in — Works with your existing observability stack; no new dashboards required.
  • Simple Instrumentation — Two lines of code instrument the entire application.

Use cases

  • Add end-to-end tracing to a LangChain-based chatbot
  • Monitor token usage and latency in a multi-model RAG pipeline
  • Detect hallucination spikes via real-time guardrail alerts
  • Audit retrieval calls in a Java-based enterprise LLM service

traceAI FAQ

How does traceAI integrate with my existing observability stack?+

traceAI is OTel-native and can send spans to any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend such as Datadog, Grafana or Jaeger.

Do I need a credit card to start using traceAI?+

No. The free tier requires no credit card and includes generous usage limits.

What languages are supported for instrumentation?+

traceAI provides SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Java and C# with full feature parity.

Is traceAI open source?+

Yes, it is released under the MIT license and hosted on GitHub.

What happens if I exceed the free usage limits?+

Usage pauses on the free plan; you can switch to the pay-as-you-go tier where overages are billed per the published rates.

Can I use my own LLM provider keys?+

Yes, you can bring your own keys (BYOK) for evaluations and routing without additional platform cost.

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