inference-catalyst-tracing 0.0.8

Company-qualified install name for the Catalyst by Inference.net Python tracing SDK.

inference-catalyst-tracing

Company-qualified install name for the Catalyst by Inference.net Python tracing SDK.

This package depends on catalyst-tracing, the primary Python SDK package, and re-exports the same public API from the inference_catalyst_tracing import path. Use this package when you want the install command to include the Inference company name.

This package is currently in beta. APIs may change before 1.0, but the package name and import path are intended to remain stable.

Install

pip install inference-catalyst-tracing

Install integration extras through the alias package:

pip install 'inference-catalyst-tracing[openai]'
pip install 'inference-catalyst-tracing[anthropic]'
pip install 'inference-catalyst-tracing[langchain]'
pip install 'inference-catalyst-tracing[langsmith]'
pip install 'inference-catalyst-tracing[openai,langchain,langsmith]'
pip install 'inference-catalyst-tracing[all]'

Quick Start

from inference_catalyst_tracing import setup
from openai import OpenAI

tracing = setup()

client = OpenAI()
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4o-mini",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this order."}],
)

tracing.shutdown()

You can also import from the primary namespace after installing this package:

from catalyst_tracing import setup

Relationship To catalyst-tracing

Package	Import path	Purpose
catalyst-tracing	catalyst_tracing	Primary SDK package
inference-catalyst-tracing	inference_catalyst_tracing	Company-qualified alias package

The alias package is intentionally small. The tracing runtime, integration installers, OpenTelemetry setup, and OpenInference attribute handling live in catalyst-tracing.

Supported Integrations

The underlying SDK supports OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, OpenAI Agents, Claude Agent SDK, and Pydantic AI integrations. It also exposes manual manual_span() and agent_span() helpers for custom agent, chain, and tool workflows.

For LangSmith, install inference-catalyst-tracing[langsmith] or inference-catalyst-tracing[langchain,langsmith], keep using LangSmith's @traceable decorators, and call setup() once at process startup. The primary SDK configures LangSmith OTel mode and enriches those decorator spans with OpenInference attributes before exporting them to Catalyst. When a LangChain or LangGraph agent runs inside a decorated function, Catalyst uses the LangSmith OTel context as the parent for nested chain, tool, retriever, and provider spans; customer code does not need a separate Catalyst wrapper for trace grouping.

See the catalyst-tracing package page for the full API reference and configuration guide.