Why Tracing Matters
Distributed tracing provides end-to-end visibility into requests flowing through your LLM API Gateway. Unlike traditional logging, tracing captures the causal relationship between services.
Sample Trace Timeline
Authentication
Routing
Transform
LLM Processing
Response
Implementation
tracing_setup.py
# OpenTelemetry Tracing Setup
from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
from opentelemetry.exporter.jaeger import JaegerExporter
# Initialize tracer
provider = TracerProvider()
processor = BatchSpanProcessor(JaegerExporter())
provider.add_span_processor(processor)
trace.set_tracer_provider(provider)
tracer = trace.get_tracer("llm-gateway")
@tracer.start_as_current_span("process_request")
def process_request(request):
# Your request processing logic
pass