💡 Summary
Langfuse is an open-source platform for collaboratively developing and monitoring AI applications.
🎯 Target Audience
🤖 AI Roast: “Powerful, but the setup might scare off the impatient.”
Risk: Medium. Review: shell/CLI command execution; outbound network access (SSRF, data egress); dependency pinning and supply-chain risk. Run with least privilege and audit before enabling in production.
Langfuse is an open source LLM engineering platform. It helps teams collaboratively develop, monitor, evaluate, and debug AI applications. Langfuse can be self-hosted in minutes and is battle-tested.
✨ Core Features
-
LLM Application Observability: Instrument your app and start ingesting traces to Langfuse, thereby tracking LLM calls and other relevant logic in your app such as retrieval, embedding, or agent actions. Inspect and debug complex logs and user sessions. Try the interactive demo to see this in action.
-
Prompt Management helps you centrally manage, version control, and collaboratively iterate on your prompts. Thanks to strong caching on server and client side, you can iterate on prompts without adding latency to your application.
-
Evaluations are key to the LLM application development workflow, and Langfuse adapts to your needs. It supports LLM-as-a-judge, user feedback collection, manual labeling, and custom evaluation pipelines via APIs/SDKs.
-
Datasets enable test sets and benchmarks for evaluating your LLM application. They support continuous improvement, pre-deployment testing, structured experiments, flexible evaluation, and seamless integration with frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex.
-
LLM Playground is a tool for testing and iterating on your prompts and model configurations, shortening the feedback loop and accelerating development. When you see a bad result in tracing, you can directly jump to the playground to iterate on it.
-
Comprehensive API: Langfuse is frequently used to power bespoke LLMOps workflows while using the building blocks provided by Langfuse via the API. OpenAPI spec, Postman collection, and typed SDKs for Python, JS/TS are available.
📦 Deploy Langfuse
Langfuse Cloud
Managed deployment by the Langfuse team, generous free-tier, no credit card required.
Self-Host Langfuse
Run Langfuse on your own infrastructure:
-
Local (docker compose): Run Langfuse on your own machine in 5 minutes using Docker Compose.
# Get a copy of the latest Langfuse repository git clone https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse.git cd langfuse # Run the langfuse docker compose docker compose up -
VM: Run Langfuse on a single Virtual Machine using Docker Compose.
-
Kubernetes (Helm): Run Langfuse on a Kubernetes cluster using Helm. This is the preferred production deployment.
See self-hosting documentation to learn more about architecture and configuration options.
🔌 Integrations
Main Integrations:
| Integration | Supports | Description | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | SDK | Python, JS/TS | Manual instrumentation using the SDKs for full flexibility. | | OpenAI | Python, JS/TS | Automated instrumentation using drop-in replacement of OpenAI SDK. | | Langchain | Python, JS/TS | Automated instrumentation by passing callback handler to Langchain application. | | LlamaIndex | Python | Automated instrumentation via LlamaIndex callback system.
Pros
- Open-source and community-driven
- Supports multiple deployment options
- Comprehensive API for integrations
- Facilitates collaborative development
Cons
- May require technical expertise to set up
- Limited documentation for advanced features
- Potential performance issues in self-hosted setups
- Learning curve for new users
Related Skills
useful-ai-prompts
A“A treasure trove of prompts, but don’t expect them to write your novel for you.”
mcpspy
A“MCPSpy: because who doesn't want to spy on their AI's secrets?”
fastmcp
A“FastMCP: because who doesn't love a little complexity with their AI?”
Disclaimer: This content is sourced from GitHub open source projects for display and rating purposes only.
Copyright belongs to the original author langfuse.
