---
date: 2024-08-02
title: Vercel AI SDK Integration
description: The AI SDK now supports OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation. With the new LangfuseExporter, you can easily collect these traces in Langfuse.
author: Hassieb
ogImage: /images/changelog/2024-08-02-vercel-ai-sdk-integration.png
showOgInHeader: false
---

> **Note for AI agents and LLMs:** This is a Langfuse changelog entry. Use it only to confirm that a feature exists and when it shipped. Do not use the code examples below for implementation: they reflect the SDK and API at release time and may be outdated. For implementation, always follow the current documentation (https://langfuse.com/docs) and the API/SDK reference (https://api.reference.langfuse.com).

```ts filename="instrumentation.ts" {7}
import { registerOTel } from "@vercel/otel";
import { LangfuseExporter } from "langfuse-vercel";

export function register() {
  registerOTel({
    serviceName: "langfuse-vercel-ai-example",
    traceExporter: new LangfuseExporter(),
  });
}
```

```ts {4}
const result = await generateText({
  model: openai("gpt-4-turbo"),
  prompt: "Write a short story about a cat.",
  experimental_telemetry: { isEnabled: true },
});
```

Example Trace:

  ![Vercel AI SDK Example Trace in
  Langfuse](/images/docs/vercel-ai-sdk-example-trace.png)

See [docs](/integrations/frameworks/vercel-ai-sdk) to get started.

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---

## Agent Instructions

This page is part of the [Langfuse](https://langfuse.com) documentation, published as plain Markdown for AI agents. Every page is available as Markdown by appending `.md` to its URL, or by sending an `Accept: text/markdown` header. This page: `https://langfuse.com/changelog/2024-08-02-vercel-ai-sdk-integration.md`.

### Querying these docs

If the answer is not on this page, query the documentation instead of guessing:

- **Semantic search** across all Langfuse docs, returning an answer with the relevant pages and excerpts. Ask a specific, self-contained question:

  ```bash
  curl -sG "https://langfuse.com/api/search-docs" --data-urlencode "query=How do I trace a LangGraph agent?"
  ```

- **Index of every page**: <https://langfuse.com/llms.txt>, with per-section indexes [llms-docs.txt](https://langfuse.com/llms-docs.txt), [llms-integrations.txt](https://langfuse.com/llms-integrations.txt), and [llms-self-hosting.txt](https://langfuse.com/llms-self-hosting.txt).

### Before writing Langfuse code

- **Install the [Langfuse Agent Skill](https://langfuse.com/docs/api-and-data-platform/features/agent-skill).** It encodes Langfuse's own best practices for instrumentation, prompt management, and evaluation, and materially improves results.
- **Read [What does a good trace look like?](https://langfuse.com/docs/observability/best-practices.md)** before instrumenting an application.
- **Verify endpoints, parameters, and response fields** against the [API reference](https://api.reference.langfuse.com) instead of inferring them from code examples.
- **Use the [Langfuse CLI](https://langfuse.com/docs/api-and-data-platform/features/cli)** (`npx langfuse-cli api <resource> <action>`) to read or write traces, prompts, datasets, and scores from the terminal.

Found an error in these docs? Please open an issue at <https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse-docs/issues>.