Technology Radar
Published : Nov 05, 2025
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Nov 2025
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OpenInference is a set of conventions and plugins; it’s complementary to OpenTelemetry and designed to observe AI applications. It provides standardized instrumentation for machine-learning frameworks and libraries, which helps developers trace LLM invocations along with surrounding context such as vector store retrievals or external tool calls to APIs and search engines. Spans can be exported to any OTEL-compatible collector, ensuring alignment with existing telemetry pipelines. We previously blipped Langfuse, a commonly used LLM observability platform — the OpenInference SDK can log traces into Langfuse and other OpenTelemetry-compatible observability platforms.
