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Traceloop

Open-source LLM observability built on OpenTelemetry

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Toolglade’s take

Traceloop is a strong, standards-based choice for LLM observability, and building on OpenTelemetry is a real advantage because it avoids lock-in and lets you route traces to backends you may already use. The open-source OpenLLMetry project and a generous free tier make it easy to adopt. It is engineering-focused tooling, so expect to invest in instrumentation and interpretation, and as a smaller, seed-stage company, evaluate its roadmap and support if you need enterprise guarantees.

About Traceloop

Traceloop is an LLM observability and reliability platform, and the maintainer of the open-source OpenLLMetry project, which extends OpenTelemetry to LLM applications. It provides tracing, monitoring, and evaluation across many providers and frameworks, with vendor-neutral instrumentation that can send data to Traceloop or other observability backends. It suits engineering teams operating LLM-powered products.

Traceloop is an observability platform for applications built on large language models, and the maintainer of OpenLLMetry, an open-source set of OpenTelemetry instrumentations for LLM apps. The premise is that LLM applications are hard to debug and monitor because their behavior is non-deterministic; Traceloop brings the discipline of traditional observability (tracing, metrics, and monitoring) to prompts, completions, chains, and agents so developers can see what their applications are actually doing in production. Because it is built on OpenTelemetry, Traceloop's instrumentation is vendor-neutral: teams can send traces to Traceloop's managed platform or to any of dozens of supported observability backends. OpenLLMetry supports many languages and integrates with a wide range of model providers (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and others), vector databases, and orchestration frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex. On top of tracing, Traceloop offers monitoring and evaluation features aimed at improving the reliability and quality of LLM outputs over time. Traceloop targets engineering teams building and operating LLM-powered products who need visibility, debugging, and quality tracking. The open-source library is free and Apache-2.0 licensed, and the managed platform offers a generous free usage tier, making it accessible to individual developers and small teams as well as larger organizations.

TL;DR

Traceloop is an LLM observability and reliability platform and the maintainer of open-source OpenLLMetry, which extends OpenTelemetry to LLM apps. It provides tracing, monitoring, and evaluation across many providers and frameworks, with vendor-neutral instrumentation. It suits engineering teams running LLM products. The library is free, and the managed platform has a free tier up to about 50,000 spans per month.

Company overview

Traceloop is a developer-tools startup focused on observability for LLM applications, and the creator of the open-source OpenLLMetry project. It went through Y Combinator.

The company raised a $6.1 million seed round, with participation from Y Combinator, Samsung NEXT, and Grand Ventures, among others.

Product features

Traceloop offers tracing, monitoring, and evaluation for LLM apps via OpenLLMetry, built on OpenTelemetry so data can flow to Traceloop or other backends. It supports multiple languages and integrates with many model providers, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks.

The managed platform adds dashboards and evaluation features, while the open-source library remains free and self-hostable.

Target market

Engineering and platform teams building and operating LLM-powered applications who need observability, debugging, and output-quality tracking.

Buyer personas

End users

Backend, ML, and platform engineers instrumenting and monitoring LLM applications.

Buyers

Engineering leads and platform or MLOps managers choosing observability tooling.

Key influencers

SRE and DevOps teams, and architects standardizing on OpenTelemetry.

Ideal customer profile

A software team running LLM features in production that values open standards and wants vendor-neutral tracing, monitoring, and evaluation.

Funding & performance

Traceloop raised a $6.1 million seed round, with participation from Y Combinator, Samsung NEXT, and Grand Ventures, among others.

Pros & cons

Pros

  • Built on open standard OpenTelemetry, avoiding lock-in
  • Open-source OpenLLMetry library is free (Apache-2.0)
  • Generous free tier on the managed platform
  • Broad support for providers and frameworks
  • Multiple language SDKs
  • Can send data to many observability backends

Cons

  • Requires engineering effort to instrument and interpret
  • Smaller, seed-stage company
  • Advanced evaluation features still maturing
  • Aimed at developers, not non-technical users
  • Enterprise support and guarantees worth verifying
  • Value depends on disciplined instrumentation

Pricing plans

Free
$0 / month
  • Up to ~50,000 spans per month
  • No seat limit
  • Full feature access
  • OpenLLMetry open-source library
Paid
Custom / usage-based / month
  • Higher span volume
  • Extended data retention
  • Team and support features
  • Advanced monitoring and evaluation

Key features

API
Team collaboration
Self-hosted
Multi-language
Integrations
OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Pinecone, Datadog
Input types
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Output types
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Best For
Tracing LLM application behavior, Monitoring prompts and completions, Vendor-neutral observability, Evaluating LLM output quality

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Frequently asked questions

What is OpenLLMetry?+

OpenLLMetry is Traceloop's open-source, Apache-2.0-licensed set of OpenTelemetry instrumentations for LLM applications. It lets you capture traces from LLM calls, chains, and agents and send them to Traceloop or other backends.

Is Traceloop free?+

The OpenLLMetry library is free and open source. Traceloop's managed platform has a free tier up to around 50,000 spans per month, with paid plans for higher volume.

Do I have to use Traceloop's backend?+

No. Because it is built on OpenTelemetry, you can send traces to Traceloop's platform or to any of dozens of supported observability backends.

Which languages and frameworks does it support?+

OpenLLMetry supports multiple languages such as Python, TypeScript, Go, and Ruby, and integrates with providers like OpenAI and Anthropic and frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex.

Who should use Traceloop?+

It is aimed at engineering teams building and operating LLM-powered products that need tracing, monitoring, and evaluation to improve reliability and debug issues.

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