Installation

pip uninstall opentelemetry-instrumentation-genai-openai-agents opentelemetry-util-genai
pip install observe-instrumentation-genai-openai-agents

See the examples directory for runnable manual and zero-code scenarios.

Usage

Call OpenAIAgentsInstrumentor().instrument() once during startup, then run your agent as usual. The Runner.run_sync(...) call below is recorded as a workflow span with the agent and tool spans nested underneath.

from agents import Agent, Runner, function_tool

from observeinc.instrumentation.genai.openai_agents import (
    OpenAIAgentsInstrumentor,
)

OpenAIAgentsInstrumentor().instrument()


@function_tool
def get_weather(city: str) -> str:
    return f"The forecast for {city} is sunny with pleasant temperatures."


assistant = Agent(
    name="Travel Concierge",
    instructions="You are a concise travel concierge.",
    model="<your-model>",
    tools=[get_weather],
)

result = Runner.run_sync(
    assistant, "I'm visiting Barcelona this weekend. How should I pack?"
)
print(result.final_output)

Configuration

By default the instrumentor keeps the Agents SDK’s built-in trace exporter (which uploads traces to OpenAI’s hosted tracing backend when OPENAI_API_KEY is set) active alongside OpenTelemetry emission. Pass disable_openai_trace_export=True to route traces only through OpenTelemetry:

OpenAIAgentsInstrumentor().instrument(disable_openai_trace_export=True)

The workflow span name comes from the Agents SDK’s own Runner.run(..., run_config=RunConfig(workflow_name=...)) knob. Content capture is controlled through OTEL_INSTRUMENTATION_GENAI_CAPTURE_MESSAGE_CONTENT environment variable.

Prompts and completions can instead be uploaded to external storage via a completion hook: set OTEL_INSTRUMENTATION_GENAI_COMPLETION_HOOK=upload with OTEL_INSTRUMENTATION_GENAI_UPLOAD_BASE_PATH (install the upload extra by changing observe-util-genai to observe-util-genai[upload] in the install command above), or pass a custom CompletionHook programmatically, which takes precedence over the environment variable:

OpenAIAgentsInstrumentor().instrument(completion_hook=my_hook)

References

• OpenTelemetry Project

• OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions

• OpenAI Agents SDK (Python)