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Langfuse

Open-source LLM engineering platform for tracing, evals, and prompt workflows.

Open source

Best when teams want self-hostable observability with datasets, scores, and prompt management in one stack.

Selection advice

Choose Langfuse when you need MIT-licensed tracing plus eval workflows without locking into a single framework vendor.

Best for

  • self-hosted agent tracing
  • production eval loops
  • prompt versioning with traces

Not ideal for

  • teams that only need a hosted LangChain-native workflow
  • projects with no appetite to operate observability infrastructure

Core concepts

tracesobservationsscoresdatasetsprompts

Minimal implementation shape

Instrument one agent run, inspect spans for tool calls and retrieval, tag failures as scores, and export recurring cases into a dataset.

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