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traceAI

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

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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).

PH · launched Apr 1, 2026 · 273 upvotes (top 43%) · 0 views

Niche: ai agent observability platforms · 220 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -64% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Observability & eval
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • Open Source
  • Developer Tools
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes traceAI is an OpenTelemetry instrumentation SDK and wrapper that intercepts standard LLM library calls to format and emit GenAI OTel spans to standard collectors.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 97 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #49 of 98 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 148 days after the earliest competitor.

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