[AG2](https://ag2.ai/) is an open-source programming framework for building AI agents and facilitating cooperation among multiple agents to solve tasks.

AG2's primary advantage is its multi-agent conversation patterns and autonomous workflows, making it ideal for complex tasks that require collaboration between specialized agents with different roles and capabilities.

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## Getting started

To use the AG2 integration with Opik, you will need to have the following
packages installed:

```bash
pip install -U "ag2[openai]" opik opentelemetry-sdk opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai opentelemetry-instrumentation-threading opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
```

In addition, you will need to set the following environment variables to
configure the OpenTelemetry integration:

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::::tab{title="Opik Cloud"}
If you are using Opik Cloud, you will need to set the following
environment variables:

```bash wordWrap
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=https://www.comet.com/opik/api/v1/private/otel
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS='Authorization=<your-api-key>,Comet-Workspace=default'
```

:::callout{intent="tip"}
To log the traces to a specific project, you can add the
`projectName` parameter to the `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS`
environment variable:

```bash wordWrap
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS='Authorization=<your-api-key>,Comet-Workspace=default,projectName=<your-project-name>'
```

You can also update the `Comet-Workspace` parameter to a different
value if you would like to log the data to a different workspace.
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::::tab{title="Enterprise deployment"}
If you are using an Enterprise deployment of Opik, you will need to set the following
environment variables:

```bash wordWrap
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=https://<comet-deployment-url>/opik/api/v1/private/otel
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS='Authorization=<your-api-key>,Comet-Workspace=default'
```

:::callout{intent="tip"}
To log the traces to a specific project, you can add the
`projectName` parameter to the `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS`
environment variable:

```bash wordWrap
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS='Authorization=<your-api-key>,Comet-Workspace=default,projectName=<your-project-name>'
```

You can also update the `Comet-Workspace` parameter to a different
value if you would like to log the data to a different workspace.
:::
::::

::::tab{title="Self-hosted instance"}
If you are self-hosting Opik, you will need to set the following environment
variables:

```bash
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:5173/api/v1/private/otel
```

:::callout{intent="tip"}
To log the traces to a specific project, you can add the `projectName`
parameter to the `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS` environment variable:

```bash
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS='projectName=<your-project-name>'
```
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## Using Opik with AG2

The example below shows how to use the AG2 integration with Opik:

```python
## First we will configure the OpenTelemetry
from opentelemetry import trace
from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import Resource
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
from opentelemetry.instrumentation.openai import OpenAIInstrumentor
from opentelemetry.instrumentation.threading import ThreadingInstrumentor


def setup_telemetry():
    """Configure OpenTelemetry with HTTP exporter"""
    # Create a resource with service name and other metadata
    resource = Resource.create(
        {
            "service.name": "ag2-demo",
            "service.version": "1.0.0",
            "deployment.environment": "development",
        }
    )

    # Create TracerProvider with the resource
    provider = TracerProvider(resource=resource)

    # Create BatchSpanProcessor with OTLPSpanExporter
    processor = BatchSpanProcessor(OTLPSpanExporter())
    provider.add_span_processor(processor)

    # Set the TracerProvider
    trace.set_tracer_provider(provider)

    tracer = trace.get_tracer(__name__)

    # Instrument OpenAI calls
    OpenAIInstrumentor().instrument(tracer_provider=provider)

    # AG2 calls OpenAI in background threads, propagate the context so all spans ends up in the same trace
    ThreadingInstrumentor().instrument()

    return tracer, provider


# 1. Import our agent class
from autogen import ConversableAgent, LLMConfig

# 2. Define our LLM configuration for OpenAI's GPT-4o mini
#    uses the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable
llm_config = LLMConfig(api_type="openai", model="gpt-4o-mini")

# 3. Create our LLM agent within the parent span context
with llm_config:
    my_agent = ConversableAgent(
        name="helpful_agent",
        system_message="You are a poetic AI assistant, respond in rhyme.",
    )


def main(message):
    response = my_agent.run(message=message, max_turns=2, user_input=True)

    # 5. Iterate through the chat automatically with console output
    response.process()

    # 6. Print the chat
    print(response.messages)

    return response.messages


if __name__ == "__main__":
    tracer, provider = setup_telemetry()

    # 4. Run the agent with a prompt
    with tracer.start_as_current_span(my_agent.name) as agent_span:
        message = "In one sentence, what's the big deal about AI?"

        agent_span.set_attribute("input", message)  # Manually log the question

        response = main(message)

        # Manually log the response
        agent_span.set_attribute("output", response)

    # Force flush all spans to ensure they are exported
    provider = trace.get_tracer_provider()
    provider.force_flush()
```

## Further improvements

If you would like to see us improve this integration, simply open a new feature
request on [Github](https://github.com/comet-ml/opik/issues).

## Related pages

- [Observability for Agent Spec with Opik](./python-agentspec.md)
- [Observability for Agno with Opik](./python-agno.md)
- [Observability for BeeAI (Python) with Opik](./python-beeai.md)
- [Observability for Claude Agent SDK with Opik](./python-claude-agent-sdk.md)
- [Observability for AutoGen with Opik](./python-autogen.md)
- [Observability for CrewAI with Opik](./python-crewai.md)
- [Observability for DSPy with Opik](./python-dspy.md)
- [Observability for Google Agent Development Kit (Python) with Opik](./python-adk.md)
- [Observability for Haystack with Opik](./python-haystack.md)
- [Observability for Harbor with Opik](./python-harbor.md)

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