OpenLIT
Self-hosted OpenTelemetry platform for LLM observability, GPU monitoring, guardrails, and prompts.
About
OpenLIT bundles most of the operational tooling an LLM application needs into one self-hosted, OpenTelemetry-native platform: tracing and metrics, GPU monitoring, real-time guardrails, eleven built-in evaluation types including hallucination and toxicity detection, a versioned Prompt Hub, a Vault for API keys, and an OpenGround playground for side-by-side model comparison. SDKs for Python, TypeScript, and Go auto-instrument more than 50 LLM providers, agent frameworks, and vector databases, emitting standard gen_ai semantic conventions so data can flow to OpenLIT's own ClickHouse-backed UI or to any existing OpenTelemetry collector and backend. Deployment is a Docker Compose file for quick starts or a Helm chart for Kubernetes, and everything runs on your own infrastructure with no external service required. The whole stack is Apache-2.0 licensed with no paid tier. Teams pick it over point solutions when they want observability, evaluation, and prompt management consolidated behind one open deployment instead of several hosted dashboards.
Should you use OpenLIT?
Pick it when
Pick OpenLIT when you want tracing, GPU monitoring, guardrails, evals, a prompt hub, and a key vault on your own infrastructure under Apache-2.0 with no paid tier, especially if you also serve models on your own GPUs.
Look elsewhere when
Skip it if you do not want to run a ClickHouse-backed stack yourself; a hosted free tier from Langfuse or Logfire is less work. If you only need LLM spans in an existing OTel backend, OpenLLMetry or OpenLIT's SDK alone does that.
Alternatives to OpenLIT
- OpenLLMetry
Instrumentation only, exporting standard spans to Datadog, Grafana, or Honeycomb; no UI, guardrails, or prompt hub to operate.
- Langfuse
Offers a hosted free tier so you need not run anything, plus a self-hosted edition; no GPU monitoring or inline guardrails.
- Helicone
Proxy-based capture with caching and rate limits from a base URL change; no GPU monitoring, and the proxy sits in your request path.
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Details
- Category
- AI Observability & Evaluation
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Intermediate (3/5)
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Added
- Jul 29, 2026