obs-vllm-otel-poc-readme · inference-research

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sources/obs-vllm-otel-poc-readme

URL

https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/main/examples/observability/opentelemetry/README.md

Publisher

vllm-project/vllm

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repo

Accessed

2026-10-04

notes

States that opentelemetry-sdk/api/exporter-otlp/semantic-conventions-ai are bundled with vLLM (no manual install), documents --otlp-traces-endpoint, grpc default vs OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL=http/protobuf, and that a trace contains 2 spans by default (client + llm_request).

Notes

States that opentelemetry-sdk/api/exporter-otlp/semantic-conventions-ai are bundled with vLLM (no manual install), documents --otlp-traces-endpoint, grpc default vs OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_PROTOCOL=http/protobuf, and that a trace contains 2 spans by default (client + llm_request).

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