cyberneticlibrary

Trace MCP Server Operations

openinference-instrumentation-mcpskillsetup L30
Arize-ai/openinference
What it does

Trace LLM, embedding, and retrieval ops with OpenInference

Best for

Full observability into RAG and LLM app internals.

Inputs
  • · instrumented app code
  • · OTEL exporter config
Outputs
  • · OpenInference spans
  • · embedding traces
  • · retrieval call logs
Requires
  • · OpenInference spec
  • · OpenTelemetry SDK
Preconditions

OTEL exporter configured and running

Failure modes
  • · Exporter connection error
  • · span size exceeded
Trust signals
  • · Arize backing
  • · OpenInference standard compliance