Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to TraceLLM
OpenTelemetry for production AI applications
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hey HN, Nir, Gal and Tomer here. We’re open-sourcing a set of extensions we’ve built on top of OpenTelemetry that provide visibility into LLM applications - whether it be prompts, vector DBs and more. Here’s the repo: https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry. There’s already a decent number of tools for LLM observability, some open-source and some not. But what we found was missing for all of them is that they were closed-protocol by design, vendor-locking you to use their observability platform or their proprietary framework for running your LLMs. It’s still early in the…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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traceAI▲273Open-source LLM tracing that speaks GenAI, not HTTP.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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OpenTelemetry-native observability for agents and LLMs
Aug 2026 · openobserve.ai · its alternatives →
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If you've built any web-based app in the last 15 years, you probably used something like Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, etc. to monitor and trace your app, right? Why should it be different when the app you're building happens to be using LLMs? So today we're open-sourcing OpenLLMetry-JS. It's an open protocol and SDK, based on OpenTelemetry, that provides traces and metrics for LLM JS/TS applications and can be connected to any of the 15+ tools that already support OpenTelemetry. Here's the repo: https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry-js A few months ago we launched…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Uptrace is an all-in-one tool that supports distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. It uses OpenTelelemetry observability framework to collect data and ClickHouse database to store it. You can ingest data using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Vector Logs, and Zipkin API. You can also use OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Prometheus metrics or receive data from Jaeger, X Ray, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL and many more. The latest Uptrace release introduces support for OpenTelemetry Metrics which includes: - User interface to build table-based and grid-based dashboards. - Pre-built dashboard…
2022 · app.uptrace.dev · its alternatives →
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Langfuse▲771Open source tracing and analytics for LLM applications
2023 · langfuse.com · its alternatives →
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TraceRoot.AI▲342Fix bugs faster with open source, AI native observability
2025 · traceroot.ai · its alternatives →
- 9Langtrace AI▲119
Improve your LLM apps with open-source observability tool
2024 · langtrace.ai · its alternatives →
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Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs - uptrace/uptrace
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open source APM: OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs - uptrace/uptrace
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Circuit Tracer▲457Anthropic's open tools to see how AI thinks
2025 · anthropic.com · its alternatives →
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Preempt performance and scaling issues in pre-production
2025 · digma.ai · its alternatives →
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LLM-usage observability and monitoring tool
2025 · siloam.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Ola and Karthik here. We are working on Langtrace(https://github.com/Scale3-Labs/langtrace), an open source, open telemetry based SDK and monitoring/evaluations client for LLM based applications. The SDK generates OTEL standard spans and traces for popular LLMs like OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere, popular frameworks like Langchain and LlamaIndex and vectorDBs like ChromaDB and Pinecone. The LLM monitoring/evaluations space has seen a number of products off late, both open source and closed source ones. But, a couple of things we have observed are: lack of…
2024 · its alternatives →
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OTelBin▲143Visualize and improve OpenTelemetry collector configurations
2023 · otelbin.io · its alternatives →
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Breadcrumb▲163Open-source LLM tracing for agent visibility
Mar 2026 · breadcrumb.sh · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we're super excited to share something we've been working on: OpenLIT. After an engaging preview that some of you might recall, we are now proudly announcing our first stable release! *What's OpenLIT?* Simply put, OpenLIT is an open-source tool designed to make monitoring your Large Language Model (LLM) applications straightforward. It’s built on OpenTelemetry, aiming to reduce the complexities that come with observing the behavior and usage of your LLM stack. *Beyond Basic Text Generation:* OpenLIT isn’t restricted to just text and chatbot outputs. It now includes automatic…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Context Gateway▲220We built an open-source proxy that sits between coding agents (Claude Code, OpenClaw, etc.) and the LLM, compressing tool outputs before they enter the context window. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vFZ6MPrwjw#t=9s. Motivation: Agents are terrible at managing context. A single file read or grep can dump thousands of tokens into the window, most of it noise. This isn't just expensive — it actively degrades quality. Long-context benchmarks consistently show steep accuracy drops as context grows (OpenAI's GPT-5.4 eval goes from 97.2% at 32k to 36.6% at 1M…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we’re Robert, Din and Temirlan from Laminar (https://www.lmnr.ai), an open-source observability and analytics platform for complex LLM apps. It’s designed to be fast, reliable, and scalable. The stack is RabbitMQ for message queues, Postgres for storage, Clickhouse for analytics, Qdrant for semantic search - all powered by Rust. How is Laminar different from the swarm of other “LLM observability” platforms? On the observability part, we’re focused on handling full execution traces, not just LLM calls. We built a Rust ingestor for OpenTelemetry (Otel) spans with GenAI…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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