Arize (tracing) | Respan Docs

Arize is a platform for AI observability and evaluation. This page covers tracing Arize SDK calls with respan-instrumentation-arize.

Set up Respan

Create an account at platform.respan.ai and grab an API key.

Run npx @respan/cli setup to set up with your coding agent.

Example projects

Python package README

Setup

Install packages

pip install respan-ai respan-instrumentation-arize arize

Set environment variables

export RESPAN_API_KEY="YOUR_RESPAN_API_KEY"

Initialize Respan and run

import os
from arize import ArizeClient
from respan import Respan
from respan_instrumentation_arize import ArizeInstrumentor
respan = Respan(
    api_key=os.environ["RESPAN_API_KEY"],
    app_name="arize-tracing",
    instrumentations=[ArizeInstrumentor()],
)
client = ArizeClient(api_key="...")
print(client.datasets.list(space="respan-demo"))
respan.shutdown()

View your trace

Open the Traces page to inspect Arize request spans with metadata, timing, and any captured request/response content.

Configuration

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`api_key`	`str \| None`	`None`	Uses `RESPAN_API_KEY` when not passed.
`base_url`	`str \| None`	`None`	Uses `RESPAN_BASE_URL` when not passed.
`app_name`	`str \| None`	`None`	Service name for exported spans.
`instrumentations`	`list`	`[]`	Add `ArizeInstrumentor()` to activate Arize tracing.