opensearch-genai-sdk-py 0.2.3

OpenSearch AI Observability SDK — OTEL-native tracing and scoring for LLM applications

OpenSearch GenAI SDK

OTEL-native tracing and scoring for LLM applications. Instrument your AI workflows with standard OpenTelemetry spans and submit evaluation scores — all routed to OpenSearch through a single OTLP pipeline.

Features

• One-line setup — register() configures the full OTEL pipeline (TracerProvider, exporter, auto-instrumentation)
• Decorators — @workflow, @task, @agent, @tool wrap functions as OTEL spans with GenAI semantic convention attributes
• Auto-instrumentation — automatically discovers and activates installed instrumentor packages (OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, LangChain, etc.)
• Scoring — score() emits evaluation metrics as OTEL spans at span, trace, or session level
• AWS SigV4 — built-in SigV4 signing for AWS-hosted OpenSearch and Data Prepper endpoints
• Zero lock-in — remove a decorator and your code still works; everything is standard OTEL

Requirements

• Python: 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, or 3.13
• OpenTelemetry SDK: ≥1.20.0, <2

Installation

pip install opensearch-genai-sdk-py

With AWS SigV4 support:

pip install opensearch-genai-sdk-py[aws]

Quick Start

from opensearch_genai_sdk import register, workflow, agent, tool, score

# 1. Initialize tracing (one line)
register(endpoint="http://localhost:4318/v1/traces")

# 2. Decorate your functions
@tool("get_weather")
def get_weather(city: str) -> dict:
    """Fetch weather data for a city."""
    return {"city": city, "temp": 22, "condition": "sunny"}

@agent("weather_assistant")
def assistant(query: str) -> str:
    data = get_weather("Paris")
    return f"{data['condition']}, {data['temp']}C"

@workflow("weather_query")
def run(query: str) -> str:
    return assistant(query)

result = run("What's the weather?")

# 3. Submit scores (after workflow completes)
score(name="relevance", value=0.95, trace_id="...", source="llm-judge")

Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  Your Application                    │
│                                                      │
│  @workflow ─→ @agent ─→ @tool    score()            │
│     │            │         │        │                │
│     └────────────┴─────────┴────────┘                │
│                     │                                │
│            opensearch-genai-sdk-py                    │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  register()                                          │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐    │
│  │  TracerProvider                              │    │
│  │  ├── Resource (service.name)                 │    │
│  │  ├── BatchSpanProcessor                      │    │
│  │  │   └── OTLPSpanExporter (HTTP or gRPC)     │    │
│  │  │       └── SigV4 signing (AWS endpoints)   │    │
│  │  └── Auto-instrumentation                    │    │
│  │      ├── openai, anthropic, bedrock, ...     │    │
│  │      ├── langchain, llamaindex, haystack     │    │
│  │      └── chromadb, pinecone, qdrant, ...     │    │
│  └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘    │
└──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
                       │ OTLP (HTTP/gRPC)
                       ▼
              ┌─────────────────┐
              │  Data Prepper /  │
              │  OTEL Collector  │
              └────────┬────────┘
                       │
                       ▼
              ┌─────────────────┐
              │   OpenSearch     │
              │  ├── traces      │
              │  └── scores      │
              └─────────────────┘

API Reference

register()

Configures the OTEL tracing pipeline. Call once at startup.

register(
    endpoint="https://pipeline.us-east-1.osis.amazonaws.com/v1/traces",
    service_name="my-app",
    auth="auto",           # "auto" | "sigv4" | "none"
    batch=True,            # BatchSpanProcessor (True) or Simple (False)
    auto_instrument=True,  # discover installed instrumentor packages
)

Endpoint formats:

URL scheme	Transport
http:// / https://	HTTP (default)
grpc://	gRPC (insecure)
grpcs://	gRPC (TLS)

Auth: Use auth="sigv4" for AWS endpoints requiring SigV4 signing. auth="auto" (default) uses plain authentication.

Decorators

Four decorators for tracing application logic. Each creates an OTEL span with gen_ai.* semantic convention attributes.

Decorator	Use for	Operation name	Span name format
@workflow("name")	Top-level orchestration	invoke_agent	name
@task("name")	Units of work	invoke_agent	name
@agent("name")	Autonomous agent logic	invoke_agent	invoke_agent name
@tool("name")	Tool/function calls	execute_tool	execute_tool name

All decorators accept name (defaults to function's __qualname__) and version.

Attributes set automatically:

Attribute	Set by
gen_ai.operation.name	All decorators
gen_ai.agent.name / gen_ai.tool.name	All decorators
gen_ai.input.messages / gen_ai.output.messages	@workflow, @task, @agent
gen_ai.tool.call.arguments / gen_ai.tool.call.result	@tool
gen_ai.tool.type	@tool (always "function")
gen_ai.tool.description	@tool (from docstring, if present)
gen_ai.agent.version	All decorators (when version is set)

Supported function types: sync, async, generators, async generators. Errors are captured as span status + exception events.

@agent("research_agent", version=2)
async def research(query: str) -> str:
    """Agents create invoke_agent spans with gen_ai.agent.* attributes."""
    result = await search_tool(query)
    return summarize(result)

@tool("search")
def search_tool(query: str) -> list:
    """Docstring becomes gen_ai.tool.description. Input/output use gen_ai.tool.call.* attributes."""
    return api.search(query)

score()

Submits evaluation scores as OTEL spans. Use any evaluation framework you prefer (autoevals, RAGAS, custom) and submit the results through score().

Three scoring levels:

# Span-level: score a specific LLM call or tool execution
score(
    name="accuracy",
    value=0.95,
    trace_id="abc123",
    span_id="def456",
    explanation="Weather data matches ground truth",
    source="heuristic",
)

# Trace-level: score an entire workflow
score(
    name="relevance",
    value=0.92,
    trace_id="abc123",
    explanation="Response addresses the user's query",
    source="llm-judge",
)

# Session-level: score across multiple traces in a conversation
score(
    name="user_satisfaction",
    value=0.88,
    conversation_id="session-123",
    label="satisfied",
    source="human",
)

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
name	str	Metric name (e.g., "relevance", "factuality")
value	float	Numeric score
trace_id	str	Trace being scored (span/trace-level)
span_id	str	Span being scored (span-level)
conversation_id	str	Session being scored (session-level)
label	str	Human-readable label ("pass", "relevant")
explanation	str	Evaluator justification (truncated to 500 chars)
response_id	str	LLM completion ID for correlation
source	str	Score origin: "sdk", "human", "llm-judge", "heuristic"
metadata	dict	Arbitrary key-value metadata

Scores are emitted as gen_ai.evaluation.result spans with gen_ai.evaluation.* attributes, following the OTEL GenAI semantic conventions.

Auto-Instrumented Libraries

register() automatically discovers and activates installed instrumentor packages. No code changes needed — just install the package and calls are traced.

LLM Providers: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Generative AI, Cohere, Mistral AI, Groq, Ollama, Together, Replicate, Writer, Voyage AI, Aleph Alpha

Cloud AI Services: AWS Bedrock, AWS SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, IBM watsonx

Frameworks: LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, CrewAI, Agno, MCP, Transformers, OpenAI Agents

Vector Databases: ChromaDB, Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Milvus, LanceDB, Marqo

Configuration

Environment Variable	Description	Default
OPENSEARCH_OTEL_ENDPOINT	OTLP endpoint URL	http://localhost:21890/opentelemetry/v1/traces
OTEL_SERVICE_NAME	Service name for spans	"default"
OPENSEARCH_PROJECT	Project/service name (fallback)	"default"
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION	AWS region for SigV4	auto-detected

License

Apache-2.0