Trace Anthropic Models in Langfuse
Anthropic provides advanced language models like Claude, known for their safety, helpfulness, and strong reasoning capabilities. By combining Anthropic’s models with Langfuse, you can trace, monitor, and analyze your AI workloads in development and production.
This notebook demonstrates two different ways to use Anthropic models with Langfuse:
- Anthropic SDK: Use Langfuse decorators to wrap Anthropic SDK calls for automatic tracing.
- OpenAI SDK: Use Anthropic’s OpenAI-compatible endpoints via Langfuse’s OpenAI SDK wrapper.
What is Anthropic?
Anthropic is an AI safety company that develops Claude, a family of large language models designed to be helpful, harmless, and honest. Claude models excel at complex reasoning, analysis, and creative tasks.
What is Langfuse?
Langfuse is an open source platform for LLM observability and monitoring. It helps you trace and monitor your AI applications by capturing metadata, prompt details, token usage, latency, and more.
Step 1: Install Dependencies
Before you begin, install the necessary packages in your Python environment:
- anthropic: The official Anthropic Python SDK for using Claude models.
- openai: Needed to call Anthropic’s OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
- langfuse: Required for sending trace data to the Langfuse platform.
%pip install anthropic openai langfuseStep 2: Configure Langfuse SDK
Next, set up your Langfuse API keys. You can get these keys by signing up for a free Langfuse Cloud account or by self-hosting Langfuse. These environment variables are essential for the Langfuse client to authenticate and send data to your Langfuse project.
Also set your Anthropic API (Anthropic Console).
import os
# Get keys for your project from the project settings page: https://cloud.langfuse.com
os.environ["LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY"] = "pk-lf-..."
os.environ["LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY"] = "sk-lf-..."
os.environ["LANGFUSE_HOST"] = "https://cloud.langfuse.com" # 🇪🇺 EU region
# os.environ["LANGFUSE_HOST"] = "https://us.cloud.langfuse.com" # 🇺🇸 US region
os.environ["ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"] = "sk-ant-..." # Your Anthropic API keyWith the environment variables set, we can now initialize the Langfuse client. get_client() initializes the Langfuse client using the credentials provided in the environment variables.
from langfuse import get_client
langfuse = get_client()
# Verify connection
if langfuse.auth_check():
print("Langfuse client is authenticated and ready!")
else:
print("Authentication failed. Please check your credentials and host.")Approach 1: Using Native Anthropic SDK with Langfuse Decorators
Langfuse decorators provide a simple way to trace function calls and automatically capture input/output data. This approach allows you to use the native Anthropic SDK while getting full observability through Langfuse.
Note: For more examples on using Langfuse decorators, see the Langfuse Python SDK documentation.
from langfuse import observe
from anthropic import Anthropic
# Initialize the Anthropic client
anthropic = Anthropic(
api_key=os.environ.get("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY")
)
@observe()
def chat_with_claude(messages: list, model: str = "claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022", max_tokens: int = 1024):
"""Chat with Claude using the Anthropic SDK and trace with Langfuse."""
# Make the API call to Anthropic
response = anthropic.messages.create(
model=model,
max_tokens=max_tokens,
messages=messages
)
# Update Langfuse observation with model details and usage
langfuse.update_current_generation(
model=model,
input=messages,
output=response.content[0].text,
usage_details={
"input": response.usage.input_tokens,
"output": response.usage.output_tokens,
"total": response.usage.input_tokens + response.usage.output_tokens
},
metadata={
"stop_reason": response.stop_reason
}
)
return response# Example usage with decorator
messages = [
{"role": "user", "content": "What is Langfuse and how does it help with LLM observability?"}
]
response = chat_with_claude(messages)
print(response.content[0].text)Approach 2: Using the Langfuse OpenAI SDK Drop-in Replacement
Anthropic provides OpenAI-compatible endpoints that allow you to use the OpenAI SDK to interact with Claude models. This is particularly useful if you have existing code using the OpenAI SDK that you want to switch to Claude.
# Langfuse OpenAI client
from langfuse.openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ.get("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"), # Your Anthropic API key
base_url="https://api.anthropic.com/v1/" # Anthropic's API endpoint
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="claude-opus-4-20250514", # Anthropic model name
messages=[
{"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
{"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"}
],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)View Traces in Langfuse
After executing the application, navigate to your Langfuse Trace Table. You will find detailed traces of the application’s execution, providing insights into the agent conversations, LLM calls, inputs, outputs, and performance metrics.
You can also view the public trace here: