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MLflow Tracing
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MLflow Tracing
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Open source · trace data hosted on your own infrastructure
Read 30 Sep 2026 · mlflow.org
On the record
- Automatic instrumentation
- MLflow offers one-line automatic tracing integrations for supported LLM and agent libraries, including OpenAI, LangChain, and DSPy.mlflow.org · read 21 Oct 2026
- Automatic tracing
- The integrations page lists automatic tracing for more than 40 LLM and AI agent libraries and frameworks.mlflow.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Browser limitation
- The TypeScript SDK works in Node.js backend environments and is not compatible with frontend browser or Edge Runtime environments.mlflow.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Company founded
- Databricks says it was founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog.databricks.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- Databricks says it is headquartered in San Francisco.databricks.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Dataset creation
- Production traces can be used to build evaluation datasets that retain details about components such as retrievers and tools.mlflow.org · read 21 Oct 2026
- Developer support
- The repository directs users to documentation, GitHub issues, a mailing list, and Slack for help and project discussions.github.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- MLflow documentation has separate sections for LLM and agent development, tracing, and evaluation, and for traditional machine-learning workflows.mlflow.org · read 21 Oct 2026
- Evaluation
- MLflow connects trace inspection with evaluation results to help assess application quality.mlflow.org · read 21 Oct 2026
- Human feedback
- Users can attach feedback to traces with metadata such as the user and timestamp.mlflow.org · read 21 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The integrations directory organizes automatic tracing support across frameworks, coding agents, and model providers.mlflow.org · read 21 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The public MLflow repository identifies its licence as Apache-2.0.github.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Lightweight SDK
- The production tracing package, `mlflow-tracing`, is documented as having a 95% smaller footprint than the full `mlflow` package.mlflow.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Maker
- The MLflow project is developed at Databricks, according to TrustRadius.trustradius.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Maker and community
- The MLflow site describes the project as backed by the Linux Foundation and committed to open source for more than five years.mlflow.org · read 30 Sep 2026
- Manual instrumentation
- Python developers can instrument custom functions with the `@mlflow.trace` decorator or create spans directly.mlflow.org · read 21 Oct 2026
- OpenTelemetry
- MLflow Tracing is compatible with OpenTelemetry and supports GenAI semantic conventions for trace export and ingestion.mlflow.org · read 21 Oct 2026
- OTLP ingestion limit
- OpenTelemetry trace ingestion requires MLflow 3.6.0 or later and a SQL-based backend store.mlflow.org · read 30 Sep 2026
