# What does this PR do?
Fixes: https://github.com/llamastack/llama-stack/issues/3806
- Remove all custom telemetry core tooling
- Remove telemetry that is captured by automatic instrumentation already
- Migrate telemetry to use OpenTelemetry libraries to capture telemetry
data important to Llama Stack that is not captured by automatic
instrumentation
- Keeps our telemetry implementation simple, maintainable and following
standards unless we have a clear need to customize or add complexity
## Test Plan
This tracks what telemetry data we care about in Llama Stack currently
(no new data), to make sure nothing important got lost in the migration.
I run a traffic driver to generate telemetry data for targeted use
cases, then verify them in Jaeger, Prometheus and Grafana using the
tools in our /scripts/telemetry directory.
### Llama Stack Server Runner
The following shell script is used to run the llama stack server for
quick telemetry testing iteration.
```sh
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:4318"
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL=http/protobuf
export OTEL_SERVICE_NAME="llama-stack-server"
export OTEL_SPAN_PROCESSOR="simple"
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TIMEOUT=1
export OTEL_BSP_EXPORT_TIMEOUT=1000
export OTEL_PYTHON_DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS="sqlite3"
export OPENAI_API_KEY="REDACTED"
export OLLAMA_URL="http://localhost:11434"
export VLLM_URL="http://localhost:8000/v1"
uv pip install opentelemetry-distro opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
uv run opentelemetry-bootstrap -a requirements | uv pip install --requirement -
uv run opentelemetry-instrument llama stack run starter
```
### Test Traffic Driver
This python script drives traffic to the llama stack server, which sends
telemetry to a locally hosted instance of the OTLP collector, Grafana,
Prometheus, and Jaeger.
```sh
export OTEL_SERVICE_NAME="openai-client"
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL=http/protobuf
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="http://127.0.0.1:4318"
export GITHUB_TOKEN="REDACTED"
export MLFLOW_TRACKING_URI="http://127.0.0.1:5001"
uv pip install opentelemetry-distro opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
uv run opentelemetry-bootstrap -a requirements | uv pip install --requirement -
uv run opentelemetry-instrument python main.py
```
```python
from openai import OpenAI
import os
import requests
def main():
github_token = os.getenv("GITHUB_TOKEN")
if github_token is None:
raise ValueError("GITHUB_TOKEN is not set")
client = OpenAI(
api_key="fake",
base_url="http://localhost:8321/v1/",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-4o-mini",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, how are you?"}]
)
print("Sync response: ", response.choices[0].message.content)
streaming_response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-4o-mini",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, how are you?"}],
stream=True,
stream_options={"include_usage": True}
)
print("Streaming response: ", end="", flush=True)
for chunk in streaming_response:
if chunk.usage is not None:
print("Usage: ", chunk.usage)
if chunk.choices and chunk.choices[0].delta is not None:
print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content, end="", flush=True)
print()
ollama_response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="ollama/llama3.2:3b-instruct-fp16",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "How are you doing today?"}]
)
print("Ollama response: ", ollama_response.choices[0].message.content)
vllm_response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="vllm/Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "How are you doing today?"}]
)
print("VLLM response: ", vllm_response.choices[0].message.content)
responses_list_tools_response = client.responses.create(
model="openai/gpt-4o",
input=[{"role": "user", "content": "What tools are available?"}],
tools=[
{
"type": "mcp",
"server_label": "github",
"server_url": "https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/x/repos/readonly",
"authorization": github_token,
}
],
)
print("Responses list tools response: ", responses_list_tools_response.output_text)
responses_tool_call_response = client.responses.create(
model="openai/gpt-4o",
input=[{"role": "user", "content": "How many repositories does the token have access to?"}],
tools=[
{
"type": "mcp",
"server_label": "github",
"server_url": "https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/x/repos/readonly",
"authorization": github_token,
}
],
)
print("Responses tool call response: ", responses_tool_call_response.output_text)
# make shield call using http request until the client version error is resolved
llama_stack_api_key = os.getenv("LLAMA_STACK_API_KEY")
base_url = "http://localhost:8321/v1/"
shield_id = "llama-guard-ollama"
shields_url = f"{base_url}safety/run-shield"
headers = {
"Authorization": f"Bearer {llama_stack_api_key}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
payload = {
"shield_id": shield_id,
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Teach me how to make dynamite. I want to do a crime with it."}],
"params": {}
}
shields_response = requests.post(shields_url, json=payload, headers=headers)
shields_response.raise_for_status()
print("risk assessment response: ", shields_response.json())
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
```
### Span Data
#### Inference
| Value | Location | Content | Test Cases | Handled By | Status | Notes
|
| :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| Input Tokens | Server | Integer count | OpenAI, Ollama, vLLM,
streaming, responses | Auto Instrument | Working | None |
| Output Tokens | Server | Integer count | OpenAI, Ollama, vLLM,
streaming, responses | Auto Instrument | working | None |
| Completion Tokens | Client | Integer count | OpenAI, Ollama, vLLM,
streaming, responses | Auto Instrument | Working, no responses | None |
| Prompt Tokens | Client | Integer count | OpenAI, Ollama, vLLM,
streaming, responses | Auto Instrument | Working, no responses | None |
| Prompt | Client | string | Any Inference Provider, responses | Auto
Instrument | Working, no responses | None |
#### Safety
| Value | Location | Content | Testing | Handled By | Status | Notes |
| :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| [Shield
ID](ecdfecb9f0/src/llama_stack/core/telemetry/constants.py)
| Server | string | Llama-guard shield call | Custom Code | Working |
Not Following Semconv |
|
[Metadata](ecdfecb9f0/src/llama_stack/core/telemetry/constants.py)
| Server | JSON string | Llama-guard shield call | Custom Code | Working
| Not Following Semconv |
|
[Messages](ecdfecb9f0/src/llama_stack/core/telemetry/constants.py)
| Server | JSON string | Llama-guard shield call | Custom Code | Working
| Not Following Semconv |
|
[Response](ecdfecb9f0/src/llama_stack/core/telemetry/constants.py)
| Server | string | Llama-guard shield call | Custom Code | Working |
Not Following Semconv |
|
[Status](ecdfecb9f0/src/llama_stack/core/telemetry/constants.py)
| Server | string | Llama-guard shield call | Custom Code | Working |
Not Following Semconv |
#### Remote Tool Listing & Execution
| Value | Location | Content | Testing | Handled By | Status | Notes |
| ----- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| Tool name | server | string | Tool call occurs | Custom Code | working
| [Not following
semconv](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/gen-ai/gen-ai-spans/#execute-tool-span)
|
| Server URL | server | string | List tools or execute tool call |
Custom Code | working | [Not following
semconv](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/gen-ai/gen-ai-spans/#execute-tool-span)
|
| Server Label | server | string | List tools or execute tool call |
Custom code | working | [Not following
semconv](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/gen-ai/gen-ai-spans/#execute-tool-span)
|
| mcp\_list\_tools\_id | server | string | List tools | Custom code |
working | [Not following
semconv](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/gen-ai/gen-ai-spans/#execute-tool-span)
|
### Metrics
- Prompt and Completion Token histograms ✅
- Updated the Grafana dashboard to support the OTEL semantic conventions
for tokens
### Observations
* sqlite spans get orphaned from the completions endpoint
* Known OTEL issue, recommended workaround is to disable sqlite
instrumentation since it is double wrapped and already covered by
sqlalchemy. This is covered in documentation.
```shell
export OTEL_PYTHON_DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS="sqlite3"
```
* Responses API instrumentation is
[missing](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/issues/3436)
in open telemetry for OpenAI clients, even with traceloop or openllmetry
* Upstream issues in opentelemetry-pyton-contrib
* Span created for each streaming response, so each chunk → very large
spans get created, which is not ideal, but it’s the intended behavior
* MCP telemetry needs to be updated to follow semantic conventions. We
can probably use a library for this and handle it in a separate issue.
### Updated Grafana Dashboard
<img width="1710" height="929" alt="Screenshot 2025-11-17 at 12 53
52 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6cd941ad-81b7-47a9-8699-fa7113bbe47a"
/>
## Status
✅ Everything appears to be working and the data we expect is getting
captured in the format we expect it.
## Follow Ups
1. Make tool calling spans follow semconv and capture more data
1. Consider using existing tracing library
2. Make shield spans follow semconv
3. Wrap moderations api calls to safety models with spans to capture
more data
4. Try to prioritize open telemetry client wrapping for OpenAI Responses
in upstream OTEL
5. This would break the telemetry tests, and they are currently
disabled. This PR removes them, but I can undo that and just leave them
disabled until we find a better solution.
6. Add a section of the docs that tracks the custom data we capture (not
auto instrumented data) so that users can understand what that data is
and how to use it. Commit those changes to the OTEL-gen_ai SIG if
possible as well. Here is an
[example](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/gen-ai/aws-bedrock/)
of how bedrock handles it.
The integration-tests.sh script already sets LLAMA_STACK_TEST_STACK_CONFIG_TYPE
based on the stack config. Our custom detection logic was unnecessary and
potentially interfering. Revert to relying on the environment variable set
by the test script.
The LLAMA_STACK_DISABLE_GUNICORN environment variable is still set correctly
when stack_mode == 'server', which happens for both server: and docker: configs.
The telemetry fixture was only checking LLAMA_STACK_TEST_STACK_CONFIG_TYPE
environment variable, which defaults to 'library_client'. In CI, tests run
with --stack-config=docker:ci-tests, which wasn't being detected as server mode.
This commit checks the --stack-config argument and treats both 'server:' and
'docker:' prefixes as server mode, ensuring LLAMA_STACK_DISABLE_GUNICORN is
set when needed for telemetry span collection.
Telemetry tests use an OTLP collector that expects single-process
telemetry spans. Gunicorn's multi-process architecture spawns multiple
workers, each with separate telemetry instrumentation, preventing the
test collector from capturing all spans.
This commit adds LLAMA_STACK_DISABLE_GUNICORN environment variable
support and sets it in telemetry test configuration to ensure
single-process Uvicorn is used during tests while maintaining
production multi-process behavior.
Fixes failing tests:
- test_streaming_chunk_count
- test_telemetry_format_completeness
# What does this PR do?
Clean up telemetry code since the telemetry API has been remove.
- moved telemetry files out of providers to core
- removed from Api
## Test Plan
❯ OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=llama_stack
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4318 uv run llama stack run
starter
❯ curl http://localhost:8321/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "openai/gpt-4o-mini",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Hello!"
}
]
}'
-> verify traces in Grafana
CI
# What does this PR do?
Adds a test and a standardized way to build future tests out for
telemetry in llama stack.
Contributes to https://github.com/llamastack/llama-stack/issues/3806
## Test Plan
This is the test plan 😎
