Status: Experimental
A request to an Generative AI is modeled as a span in a trace.
Span kind: SHOULD be CLIENT
. It MAY be set to INTERNAL
on spans representing
call to models running in the same process.
It's RECOMMENDED to use CLIENT
kind when GenAI system being instrumented usually
runs in a different process than its client or when GenAI call happens over
instrumented protocol such as HTTP.
GenAI spans MUST follow the overall guidelines for span names.
The span name SHOULD be {gen_ai.operation.name} {gen_ai.request.model}
.
Semantic conventions for individual GenAI systems and frameworks MAY specify different span name format.
These attributes track input data and metadata for a request to an GenAI model. Each attribute represents a concept that is common to most Generative AI clients.
Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Requirement Level | Stability |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
gen_ai.operation.name |
string | The name of the operation being performed. [1] | chat ; text_completion |
Required |
|
gen_ai.system |
string | The Generative AI product as identified by the client or server instrumentation. [2] | openai |
Required |
|
error.type |
string | Describes a class of error the operation ended with. [3] | timeout ; java.net.UnknownHostException ; server_certificate_invalid ; 500 |
Conditionally Required if the operation ended in an error |
|
gen_ai.request.model |
string | The name of the GenAI model a request is being made to. [4] | gpt-4 |
Conditionally Required If available. |
|
server.port |
int | GenAI server port. [5] | 80 ; 8080 ; 443 |
Conditionally Required If server.address is set. |
|
gen_ai.request.frequency_penalty |
double | The frequency penalty setting for the GenAI request. | 0.1 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.request.max_tokens |
int | The maximum number of tokens the model generates for a request. | 100 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.request.presence_penalty |
double | The presence penalty setting for the GenAI request. | 0.1 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.request.stop_sequences |
string[] | List of sequences that the model will use to stop generating further tokens. | ["forest", "lived"] |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.request.temperature |
double | The temperature setting for the GenAI request. | 0.0 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.request.top_k |
double | The top_k sampling setting for the GenAI request. | 1.0 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.request.top_p |
double | The top_p sampling setting for the GenAI request. | 1.0 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.response.finish_reasons |
string[] | Array of reasons the model stopped generating tokens, corresponding to each generation received. | ["stop"] ; ["stop", "length"] |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.response.id |
string | The unique identifier for the completion. | chatcmpl-123 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.response.model |
string | The name of the model that generated the response. [6] | gpt-4-0613 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.usage.input_tokens |
int | The number of tokens used in the GenAI input (prompt). | 100 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.usage.output_tokens |
int | The number of tokens used in the GenAI response (completion). | 180 |
Recommended |
|
server.address |
string | GenAI server address. [7] | example.com ; 10.1.2.80 ; /tmp/my.sock |
Recommended |
[1] gen_ai.operation.name
: If one of the predefined values applies, but specific system uses a different name it's RECOMMENDED to document it in the semantic conventions for specific GenAI system and use system-specific name in the instrumentation. If a different name is not documented, instrumentation libraries SHOULD use applicable predefined value.
[2] gen_ai.system
: The gen_ai.system
describes a family of GenAI models with specific model identified
by gen_ai.request.model
and gen_ai.response.model
attributes.
The actual GenAI product may differ from the one identified by the client.
For example, when using OpenAI client libraries to communicate with Mistral, the gen_ai.system
is set to openai
based on the instrumentation's best knowledge.
For custom model, a custom friendly name SHOULD be used.
If none of these options apply, the gen_ai.system
SHOULD be set to _OTHER
.
[3] error.type
: The error.type
SHOULD match the error code returned by the Generative AI provider or the client library,
the canonical name of exception that occurred, or another low-cardinality error identifier.
Instrumentations SHOULD document the list of errors they report.
[4] gen_ai.request.model
: The name of the GenAI model a request is being made to. If the model is supplied by a vendor, then the value must be the exact name of the model requested. If the model is a fine-tuned custom model, the value should have a more specific name than the base model that's been fine-tuned.
[5] server.port
: When observed from the client side, and when communicating through an intermediary, server.port
SHOULD represent the server port behind any intermediaries, for example proxies, if it's available.
[6] gen_ai.response.model
: If available. The name of the GenAI model that provided the response. If the model is supplied by a vendor, then the value must be the exact name of the model actually used. If the model is a fine-tuned custom model, the value should have a more specific name than the base model that's been fine-tuned.
[7] server.address
: When observed from the client side, and when communicating through an intermediary, server.address
SHOULD represent the server address behind any intermediaries, for example proxies, if it's available.
error.type
has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.
Value | Description | Stability |
---|---|---|
_OTHER |
A fallback error value to be used when the instrumentation doesn't define a custom value. |
gen_ai.operation.name
has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.
Value | Description | Stability |
---|---|---|
chat |
Chat completion operation such as OpenAI Chat API | |
text_completion |
Text completions operation such as OpenAI Completions API (Legacy) |
gen_ai.system
has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.
Value | Description | Stability |
---|---|---|
anthropic |
Anthropic | |
aws.bedrock |
AWS Bedrock | |
az.ai.inference |
Azure AI Inference | |
cohere |
Cohere | |
ibm.watsonx.ai |
IBM Watsonx AI | |
openai |
OpenAI | |
vertex_ai |
Vertex AI |
User inputs and model responses may be recorded as events parented to GenAI operation span. See Semantic Conventions for GenAI events for the details.