OpenAI Agents SDK Tracing

Note

Looking for TypeScript? See the TypeScript guide.

1. Install#

pip install openinference-instrumentation-openai-agents openai-agents

2. Set up Tracing#

Add your OpenAI API key as an environment variable:

export OPENAI_API_KEY=[your_key_here]

Connect your application to Phoenix with the register function:

from phoenix.otel import register# configure the Phoenix tracertracer_provider = register(project_name="agents", # Default is 'default'auto_instrument=True # Auto-instrument your app based on installed OI dependencies)

Run your agentscode.

from agents import Agent, Runneragent = Agent(name="Assistant", instructions="You are a helpful assistant")result = Runner.run_sync(agent, "Write a haiku about recursion in programming.")print(result.final_output)

View your traces in Phoenix.

Resources#

Example notebook