Setup

Core OpenTelemetry tracing utilities and setup for Pipecat.

pipecat.utils.tracing.setup.is_tracing_available()

Returns True if OpenTelemetry tracing is available and configured.

Returns:

True if tracing is available, False otherwise.

Return type:

bool

pipecat.utils.tracing.setup.setup_tracing(service_name='pipecat', exporter=None, console_export=False)

Set up OpenTelemetry tracing with a user-provided exporter.

Parameters:

• service_name (str) – The name of the service for traces

• exporter – A pre-configured OpenTelemetry span exporter instance. If None, only console export will be available if enabled.

• console_export (bool) – Whether to also export traces to console (useful for debugging)

Returns:

True if setup was successful, False otherwise

Return type:

bool

Example

# With OTLP exporter from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.grpc.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter

exporter = OTLPSpanExporter(endpoint=”http://localhost:4317”, insecure=True) setup_tracing(“my-service”, exporter=exporter)