Choosing the Right Span Kind for Chat Session State Monitoring

·Feb 27, 2025 04:48 PM

Hello there! I have a question about the span kinds. I have an endpoint that obtains the current chat session state. As for now, the only state it monitors it's if the user ended the current chat with the AI Agent. I wonder which span kind I should use for openinference_span_kind in this case? Overall I'm using the using_session approach.

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John G.
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Hey Piotr W., good question! I'd recommend instrumenting a "CHAIN" span for the call to your endpoint to retrieve the session state. And then continuing what you're doing with "using_session" so that you have the sessions view in Phoenix as well

John G.
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Hey Piotr W., good question! I'd recommend instrumenting a "CHAIN" span for the call to your endpoint to retrieve the session state. And then continuing what you're doing with "using_session" so that you have the sessions view in Phoenix as well