tealtiger-phoenix

Governance spans in Arize Phoenix LLM trace viewer — see why tool calls were blocked, which policies fired, and what governance costs look like, directly in your traces.

Part of the TealTiger ecosystem — deterministic AI agent governance.

What it does

tealtiger-phoenix exports TealTiger governance decisions as OpenTelemetry spans that Phoenix auto-ingests. Every ALLOW, DENY, or MONITOR decision appears inline with your LLM traces — answering "why didn't this tool call happen?" directly in the trace viewer.

Installation

pip install tealtiger-phoenix arize-phoenix-otel

Quick Start

import os
from openai import OpenAI
from phoenix.otel import register
from tealtiger_phoenix import PhoenixGovernanceSpanExporter
from tealtiger import observe

# 1. Register Phoenix tracer
tracer_provider = register(project_name="governed-agent")

# 2. Create governance span exporter
exporter = PhoenixGovernanceSpanExporter()

# 3. Wrap your LLM client with TealTiger governance
client = observe(
    OpenAI(api_key=os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"]),
    guardrails={"pii_detection": True, "cost_limit": 5.00},
    on_decision=exporter.export,
)

# 4. Use normally — governance spans appear in Phoenix
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4o",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this data"}],
)

Open Phoenix at http://localhost:6006 — you'll see governance spans alongside your LLM spans.

How it looks in Phoenix

Each governance decision creates a span with:

DENY decisions show as ERROR spans (red in Phoenix).
ALLOW decisions show as OK spans (green).
MONITOR decisions show as UNSET spans (yellow).

Configuration

exporter = PhoenixGovernanceSpanExporter(
    # Custom tracer name (default: "tealtiger.governance")
    tracer_name="tealtiger.governance",

    # Custom span name (default: "tealtiger.governance.decision")
    span_name="tealtiger.governance.decision",

    # Only record DENY/MONITOR decisions to reduce noise (default: True)
    record_allows=False,

    # Include cost tracking attributes (default: True)
    include_cost=True,
)

Usage with TealEngine

from tealtiger_phoenix import PhoenixGovernanceSpanExporter

exporter = PhoenixGovernanceSpanExporter()

# Works with any TealTiger governance callback
engine = TealEngine(
    policies=[...],
    on_decision=exporter.export,
)

Usage with Google ADK + TealTiger

from tealtiger_adk import TealTigerCallback
from tealtiger_phoenix import PhoenixGovernanceSpanExporter

exporter = PhoenixGovernanceSpanExporter()

governance = TealTigerCallback(
    policies=[{"type": "pii_block", "categories": ["ssn"]}],
    mode="ENFORCE",
    on_decision=exporter.export,  # Sends to Phoenix
)

Batch Export

# Export multiple decisions at once
exporter.export_batch(decisions_list)

# Check counters
print(f"Exported: {exporter.decision_count}")
print(f"Denied: {exporter.deny_count}")

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• opentelemetry-api >= 1.20.0
• opentelemetry-sdk >= 1.20.0
• arize-phoenix-otel >= 0.16.0 (for Phoenix setup)

Links

• 📖 TealTiger Documentation
• 🔭 Phoenix Documentation
• 🐙 GitHub
• 📦 PyPI
• 🌐 tealtiger.ai

License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.