Langfuse
Editor's top pickBest for hierarchical tracing across model calls, tool invocations and retrieval steps
MIT-licensed LLM observability you can actually run yourself
Why consider it
- MIT licensing across all product features rather than an open-core tease
- Hierarchical traces are the right shape for debugging agents, not just calls
- All three evaluation methods in one place, which makes calibration possible
- Self-host or managed cloud, with EU and US regions and a HIPAA-ready option
Worth knowing
Trade-offs: SDK instrumentation means coverage is only as good as the code you write · Self-hosting is insurance rather than a plan for most teams, and carries real operational cost