LLM Observability with groundcover and OpenLLMetry

groundcover is a BYOC, eBPF-powered, OpenTelemetry-native complete observability platform.

You have two options for sending traces to groundcover:

Option 1 - Send directly to the groundcover sensor

No API key required. Saves on networking costs.

TRACELOOP_BASE_URL=http://groundcover-sensor.groundcover.svc.cluster.local:4318

Option 2 - Send directly to the groundcover BYOC endpoint

Allows sending traces from any runtime, e.g., Docker, serverless, ECS, etc. Requires an ingestion key.

First, create an ingestion key.

Then, set the following environment variables:

TRACELOOP_BASE_URL=https://<GROUNDCOVER_BYOC_ENDPOINT>
TRACELOOP_HEADERS="apikey=<GROUNDCOVER_INGESTION_KEY>"

For more information, check out the groundcover OpenTelemetry documentation.