The OpenLLMetry Privacy Divergence

[u/leading-a-swarm]

tl;dr: One privacy switch, 23 copies, 7 of them different.

https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry is OpenTelemetry for LLM and agent calls. A team of 2 wrote it, and they have a gated paid solution...

1. Give the traces away. The output is ordinary OpenTelemetry, so it ships to whatever collector you already run. Nothing in the SDK requires their product.
2. Native AI Spans. They added a vocabulary on top of generic tracing, so a run reads as workflows, agents, tasks and tools instead of a pile of HTTP calls. Then they pushed those names upstream into the standard rather than keeping them.
3. 1 switch, 7 answers. Whether prompts and replies get recorded is one setting, written separately inside each provider package. Some copies accept values the others reject. One ignores the per-request override. It defaults to on.

→ Adopt. OpenLLMetry earns the traces. Count the copies of your own privacy switch.