Opik

🚀 What is Opik?

Opik covers the full LLM application lifecycle, from the first trace in development to production monitoring, for teams building LLM apps and AI agents. Key offerings include:

• AI Agent Tracing & Observability: Deep tracing of LLM calls, conversation logging, and agent activity, with full trace trees for multi-step agents and tool calls.
• LLM Evaluation: Datasets, experiments, and LLM-as-a-judge metrics for hallucination detection, moderation, and RAG assessment.
• Prompt & Agent Optimization: The Opik Agent Optimizer SDK to improve prompts and agents.
• Production-Ready Monitoring: Scalable dashboards and online evaluation rules.
• Opik Guardrails: Features to help you implement safe and responsible AI practices.
• CI/CD Evaluation: A PyTest integration to test LLM pipelines on every commit.

Key capabilities include:

• Development & Tracing:

  • Track all LLM calls and traces with detailed context during development and in production (Quickstart).
  • Extensive 3rd-party integrations for easy observability: Seamlessly integrate with a growing list of frameworks, supporting many of the largest and most popular ones natively (including recent additions like Google ADK, Autogen, and Flowise AI). (Integrations)
  • Annotate traces and spans with feedback scores via the Python SDK or the UI.
  • Experiment with prompts and models in the Prompt Playground.

• Evaluation & Testing:

  • Automate your LLM application evaluation with Datasets and Experiments.
  • Leverage powerful LLM-as-a-judge metrics for complex tasks like hallucination detection, moderation, and RAG assessment (Answer Relevance, Context Precision).
  • Integrate evaluations into your CI/CD pipeline with our PyTest integration.

• Production Monitoring & Optimization:

  • Log high volumes of production traces: Opik is designed for scale (40M+ traces/day).
  • Monitor feedback scores, trace counts, and token usage over time in the Opik Dashboard.
  • Utilize Online Evaluation Rules with LLM-as-a-Judge metrics to identify production issues.
  • Leverage Opik Agent Optimizer and Opik Guardrails to continuously improve and secure your LLM applications in production.

Who it’s for: ML engineers building LLM-powered agents, AI teams moving from prototype to production, and engineering teams that need open-source, self-hostable observability they can run in their own environment.

Why open source matters here: Opik is Apache-2.0 licensed and free to self-host: the full platform, backend included, not just a client SDK. The repository includes the server backend, web application, tracing, datasets, experiments, evaluations, prompt management, online evaluation, and agent optimization components, all under Apache-2.0. You can run LLM observability inside your own infrastructure with no data leaving your environment and no Enterprise sales conversation required.

[!TIP] If you are looking for features that Opik doesn’t have today, please raise a new Feature request 🚀

⚡ Quick Start

Install the Python SDK and configure it:

pip install opik
opik configure

Wrap any function with the @track decorator to start logging traces:

from opik import track

@track
def my_function(input: str) -> str:
    return input

Every call to my_function is now logged to Opik, including nested calls, so this works for full agent and pipeline traces, not just single LLM calls. See the Quickstart guide for the TypeScript SDK and other setup options.

📊 How Does Opik Compare?

Opik competes in the LLM observability / AI agent evaluation category alongside LangSmith, Arize (Phoenix and Arize AX), Weights & Biases (Weave), Langfuse, and Braintrust.

Capability	Opik	LangSmith	Phoenix	Arize AX	Weights & Biases (Weave)	Langfuse	Braintrust
Open source	Yes, Apache-2.0 (full platform)	No	Source-available (Elastic License 2.0, not OSI-approved)	No	Open-source SDK/toolkit; self-managed platform requires a commercial license	MIT-licensed core platform; commercial enterprise modules	No
Self-hosted deployment	Yes	Enterprise only	Yes	Enterprise only	Enterprise only for Weave itself	Yes, core	Enterprise only
Free tier available (cloud or self-hosted)	Yes, both	Yes, cloud	Yes, self-hosted	Yes, cloud	Yes, cloud	Yes, both	Yes, cloud
Agent / multi-step tracing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
LLM-as-a-judge evaluation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Prompt management	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly	Partly	Yes	Yes
Framework-agnostic	Yes	Partly, built around LangChain	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

When teams choose Opik: Opik’s full observability, evaluation, and optimization platform is Apache-2.0 licensed and free to self-host. Unlike closed platforms whose self-hosted deployment requires an Enterprise plan, Opik can be deployed without a commercial license, and it’s framework-agnostic so it won’t lock you into a single agent ecosystem. See the table above for where self-hosting and licensing differ across alternatives.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Is Opik open source?

Opik is licensed under Apache 2.0. Its server, web application, and core observability and evaluation capabilities can be self-hosted without a commercial license.

Can I self-host Opik?

Yes. Opik can be deployed locally or in your own infrastructure using the documented self-hosting options.

Does Opik support AI agent tracing?

Yes. Opik captures multi-step traces containing LLM calls, tool executions, retrieval steps, and other agent activity.

Does Opik support LLM evaluation?

Yes. Opik supports datasets, experiments, code-based metrics, LLM-as-a-judge evaluation, and online evaluation.

Is Opik tied to a specific agent framework?

No. Opik is framework-agnostic and supports its SDK, OpenTelemetry, and framework-specific integrations.

🛠️ Opik Server Installation

Get your Opik server running in minutes. Choose the option that best suits your needs:

Option 1: Comet.com Cloud (Easiest & Recommended)

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Option 2: Self-Host Opik for Full Control

Deploy Opik in your own environment. Choose between Docker for local setups or Kubernetes for scalability.

Self-Hosting with Docker Compose (for Local Development & Testing)

This is the simplest way to get a local Opik instance running. Note the new ./opik.sh installation script:

On Linux or Mac Environment:

# Clone the Opik repository
git clone https://github.com/comet-ml/opik.git

# Navigate to the repository
cd opik

# Start the Opik platform
./opik.sh

On Windows Environment:

# Clone the Opik repository
git clone https://github.com/comet-ml/opik.git

# Navigate to the repository
cd opik

# Start the Opik platform
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c ".\\opik.ps1"

Installation Script Options

The opik.sh and opik.ps1 scripts support the following options:

# Start full Opik suite (default behavior)
./opik.sh

# Start only infrastructure services (databases, caches etc.)
./opik.sh --infra

# Start infrastructure + backend services
./opik.sh --backend

# Enable guardrails with any profile
./opik.sh --guardrails # Guardrails with full Opik suite
./opik.sh --backend --guardrails # Guardrails with infrastructure + backend

# Build the containers from source before starting
./opik.sh --build

# Check that all containers are healthy
./opik.sh --verify

# Stop all containers
./opik.sh --stop

# Stop all containers and remove all Opik data volumes
# WARNING: ALL OPIK DATA WILL BE LOST
./opik.sh --clean

# Show all available options
./opik.sh --help

Use the --help or --info options to troubleshoot issues. Dockerfiles now ensure containers run as non-root users for enhanced security. Once all is up and running, you can now visit localhost:5173 on your browser! For detailed instructions, see the Local Deployment Guide.

Self-Hosting with Kubernetes & Helm (for Scalable Deployments)

For production or larger-scale self-hosted deployments, Opik can be installed on a Kubernetes cluster using our Helm chart. Click the badge for the full Kubernetes Installation Guide using Helm.

💻 Opik Client SDK

Opik provides a suite of client libraries and a REST API to interact with the Opik server. This includes SDKs for Python and TypeScript, plus first-party OpenTelemetry support: any language with an OpenTelemetry SDK — including Java, Ruby, and .NET — can send traces to Opik. For detailed API and SDK references, see the Opik Client Reference Documentation.

Python SDK Quick Start

To get started with the Python SDK:

Install the package:

# install using pip
pip install opik

# or install with uv
uv pip install opik

Configure the python SDK by running the opik configure command, which will prompt you for your Opik server address (for self-hosted instances) or your API key and workspace (for Comet.com):

opik configure

[!TIP] You can also call opik.configure(use_local=True) from your Python code to configure the SDK to run on a local self-hosted installation, or provide API key and workspace details directly for Comet.com. Refer to the Python SDK documentation for more configuration options.

You are now ready to start logging traces using the Python SDK.