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I don’t see OpenAI spans

  • Ensure opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai is installed and instrumented before your first model call.
  • Confirm exporter endpoint and API key env vars.

I only see a few spans (too flat)

  • If using Traceloop/OpenLLMetry, ensure native OTEL instrumentations (OpenAI/HTTP) are enabled alongside it.
  • Disable any sampler dropping child spans; try OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER=always_on in staging.

My prompts are missing

  • You may have content tracing disabled. In dev, set TRACELOOP_TRACE_CONTENT=true.

High cardinality / too many spans

  • Start with raw OTEL only. Add semantic steps only for stable, top‑level functions.