LiveKit Agents is an open-source Python framework for building production-grade multimodal and voice AI agents. It provides a complete set of tools and abstractions for feeding realtime media through AI pipelines, supporting both high-performance STT-LLM-TTS voice pipelines and speech-to-speech models. LiveKit Agents' primary advantage is its built-in OpenTelemetry support for comprehensive observability, making it easy to monitor agent sessions, LLM calls, function tools, and TTS operations in real-time applications. ## Getting started To use the LiveKit Agents integration with Opik, you will need to have LiveKit Agents and the required OpenTelemetry packages installed: ```bash pip install "livekit-agents[openai,turn-detector,silero,deepgram]" opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http ``` ## Environment configuration Configure your environment variables based on your Opik deployment: :::::tabs ::::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=,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=,Comet-Workspace=default,projectName=' ``` 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="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:///opik/api/v1/private/otel export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS='Authorization=,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=,Comet-Workspace=default,projectName=' ``` 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=' ``` ::: :::: ::::: ## Using Opik with LiveKit Agents LiveKit Agents includes built-in OpenTelemetry support. To enable telemetry, configure a tracer provider using `set_tracer_provider` in your entrypoint function: ```python title="main.py" import logging from dotenv import load_dotenv load_dotenv() from livekit.agents import ( Agent, AgentSession, JobContext, RunContext, cli, metrics, AgentServer, ) from livekit.agents.llm import function_tool from livekit.agents.telemetry import set_tracer_provider from livekit.agents.voice import MetricsCollectedEvent from livekit.plugins import deepgram, openai, silero from opentelemetry.util.types import AttributeValue logger = logging.getLogger("basic-agent") server = AgentServer() def setup_opik_tracing(metadata: dict[str, AttributeValue] | None = None): """Set up Opik tracing for LiveKit Agents""" from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor # Set up the tracer provider trace_provider = TracerProvider() trace_provider.add_span_processor(BatchSpanProcessor(OTLPSpanExporter())) set_tracer_provider(trace_provider, metadata=metadata) return trace_provider @function_tool(None) async def lookup_weather(context: RunContext, location: str) -> str: """Called when the user asks for information related to weather. Args: location: The location they are asking for """ logger.info(f"Looking up weather for {location}") return "sunny with a temperature of 70 degrees." class Kelly(Agent): def __init__(self) -> None: super().__init__( instructions="Your name is Kelly.", llm=openai.LLM(model="gpt-4o-mini"), stt=deepgram.STT(model="nova-3", language="multi"), tts=openai.TTS(voice="ash"), turn_detection="realtime_llm", tools=[lookup_weather], ) async def on_enter(self): logger.info("Kelly is entering the session") await self.session.generate_reply() @function_tool(None) async def transfer_to_alloy(self) -> Agent: """Transfer the call to Alloy.""" logger.info("Transferring the call to Alloy") return Alloy() class Alloy(Agent): def __init__(self) -> None: super().__init__( instructions="Your name is Alloy.", llm=openai.realtime.RealtimeModel(voice="alloy"), tools=[lookup_weather], ) async def on_enter(self): logger.info("Alloy is entering the session") await self.session.generate_reply() @function_tool(None) async def transfer_to_kelly(self) -> Agent: """Transfer the call to Kelly.""" logger.info("Transferring the call to Kelly") return Kelly() @server.rtc_session(agent_name="LK_test") async def entrypoint(ctx: JobContext): # set up the langfuse tracer trace_provider = setup_opik_tracing( # metadata will be set as attributes on all spans created by the tracer metadata={ "livekit.session.id": ctx.room.name, } ) # (optional) add a shutdown callback to flush the trace before process exit async def flush_trace(): trace_provider.force_flush() ctx.add_shutdown_callback(flush_trace) session = AgentSession(vad=silero.VAD.load()) @session.on("metrics_collected") def _on_metrics_collected(ev: MetricsCollectedEvent): metrics.log_metrics(ev.metrics) await session.start(agent=Kelly(), room=ctx.room) if __name__ == "__main__": cli.run_app(server) ``` Make sure to create a `.env` file with the environment variables you configured above as well as LiveKit, DeepGram and OpenAI API keys and credentials. It should look something like this: ```md title=".env" # LiveKit credentials # For local development, you can use these placeholder values # or get real credentials from https://cloud.livekit.io LIVEKIT_URL=wss://[your-livekit-project-url] LIVEKIT_API_KEY=[your-livekit-api-key] LIVEKIT_API_SECRET=[your-livekit-api-secret] # Deepgram API DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=[your-deepgram-api-key] # You'll also need OpenAI API key for the LLM and TTS OPENAI_API_KEY=[your-openai-api-key] # The OTEl endpoint configuration #OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=https://www.comet.com/opik/api/v1/private/otel #OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS='Authorization=[your-api-key],Comet-Workspace=default' ``` Then, run the application with following command: ```bash python main.py console ``` After a few seconds, you should see traces in Comet ML: :::frame LiveKit Agents tracing ::: ## What gets traced With this setup, your LiveKit agent will automatically trace: - **Session events**: Session start and end with metadata - **Agent turns**: Complete conversation turns with timing - **LLM operations**: Model calls, prompts, responses, and token usage - **Function tools**: Tool executions with inputs and outputs - **TTS operations**: Text-to-speech conversions with audio metadata - **STT operations**: Speech-to-text transcriptions - **End-of-turn detection**: Conversation flow events ## Further improvements If you have any questions or suggestions for improving the LiveKit Agents integration, please [open an issue](https://github.com/comet-ml/opik/issues/new/choose) on our GitHub repository. ## Related pages - [Observability for AG2 with Opik](./python-ag2.md) - [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) # Agent Instructions Cite this page’s canonical URL and keep its documentation version. 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