respan-instrumentation-instructor

Respan instrumentation plugin for Instructor. This package instruments Instructor's native patch() and Instructor.create() paths directly and emits Respan-compatible chat spans without using openinference-instrumentation-instructor.

Configuration

1. Install

pip install respan-instrumentation-instructor

2. Set Environment Variables

Quickstart

3. Run Script

import os

import instructor
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from openai import OpenAI
from pydantic import BaseModel
from respan import Respan
from respan_instrumentation_instructor import InstructorInstrumentor

load_dotenv()

respan_api_key = os.environ["RESPAN_API_KEY"]
respan_base_url = os.getenv("RESPAN_BASE_URL", "https://api.respan.ai/api")

# Route OpenAI traffic through the Respan gateway.
os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = respan_api_key
os.environ["OPENAI_BASE_URL"] = respan_base_url


class UserInfo(BaseModel):
    name: str
    age: int


respan = Respan(
    api_key=respan_api_key,
    base_url=respan_base_url,
    app_name="instructor-quickstart",
    instrumentations=[InstructorInstrumentor()],
)

client = instructor.from_openai(OpenAI())
user_info = client.create(
    response_model=UserInfo,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Ada Lovelace is 36 years old."}],
    model="gpt-4o-mini",
)

print(user_info.model_dump())
respan.flush()

4. View Dashboard

After running the script, traces appear on your Respan dashboard.

Further Reading

Runnable examples with full setup instructions:

• Python: python/tracing/instructor