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Hosted Service Observability & Evaluation

Traceloop

1Hosted 2backend 3for 4OpenLLMetry 5telemetry 6traces

the six Ws · specification

W1 Who

Teams instrumenting LLM applications with OpenTelemetry style tracing.

W2 What

Traceloop is the commercial hosted backend built by the maintainers of the open source OpenLLMetry SDK for LLM observability.

W3 Where

Cloud hosted destination for telemetry, reachable from any OpenLLMetry instrumented application.

W4 When

OpenLLMetry has over 1,400 commits and is actively maintained, with Traceloop operating as its commercial arm.

W5 Why

Gives teams a ready-made place to send OpenTelemetry traces without standing up their own observability stack.

W6 With

Requires the Apache 2.0 OpenLLMetry SDK for instrumentation, and can also export to Datadog, Honeycomb and other backends.

W7 Watch

SDK is open source and vendor neutral, but Traceloop itself is a commercial cloud product that stores exported trace data.

opentelemetry backendllm tracingopenllmetry sdkobservability export

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