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GenAI Attributes

This document defines the attributes used to describe telemetry in the context of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Models requests and responses.

Attribute	Type	Description	Examples	Stability
gen_ai.completion	string	The full response received from the GenAI model. [1]	[{'role': 'assistant', 'content': 'The capital of France is Paris.'}]
gen_ai.operation.name	string	The name of the operation being performed. [2]	chat; text_completion
gen_ai.prompt	string	The full prompt sent to the GenAI model. [3]	[{'role': 'user', 'content': 'What is the capital of France?'}]
gen_ai.request.frequency_penalty	double	The frequency penalty setting for the GenAI request.	0.1
gen_ai.request.max_tokens	int	The maximum number of tokens the model generates for a request.	100
gen_ai.request.model	string	The name of the GenAI model a request is being made to.	gpt-4
gen_ai.request.presence_penalty	double	The presence penalty setting for the GenAI request.	0.1
gen_ai.request.stop_sequences	string[]	List of sequences that the model will use to stop generating further tokens.	["forest", "lived"]
gen_ai.request.temperature	double	The temperature setting for the GenAI request.	0.0
gen_ai.request.top_k	double	The top_k sampling setting for the GenAI request.	1.0
gen_ai.request.top_p	double	The top_p sampling setting for the GenAI request.	1.0
gen_ai.response.finish_reasons	string[]	Array of reasons the model stopped generating tokens, corresponding to each generation received.	["stop"]
gen_ai.response.id	string	The unique identifier for the completion.	chatcmpl-123
gen_ai.response.model	string	The name of the model that generated the response.	gpt-4-0613
gen_ai.system	string	The Generative AI product as identified by the client or server instrumentation. [4]	openai
gen_ai.token.type	string	The type of token being counted.	input; output
gen_ai.usage.input_tokens	int	The number of tokens used in the GenAI input (prompt).	100
gen_ai.usage.output_tokens	int	The number of tokens used in the GenAI response (completion).	180

[1]: It’s RECOMMENDED to format completions as JSON string matching OpenAI messages format

[2]: If one of the predefined values applies, but specific system uses a different name it’s RECOMMENDED to document it in the semantic conventions for specific GenAI system and use system-specific name in the instrumentation. If a different name is not documented, instrumentation libraries SHOULD use applicable predefined value.

[3]: It’s RECOMMENDED to format prompts as JSON string matching OpenAI messages format

[4]: The gen_ai.system describes a family of GenAI models with specific model identified by gen_ai.request.model and gen_ai.response.model attributes.

The actual GenAI product may differ from the one identified by the client. For example, when using OpenAI client libraries to communicate with Mistral, the gen_ai.system is set to openai based on the instrumentation’s best knowledge.

For custom model, a custom friendly name SHOULD be used. If none of these options apply, the gen_ai.system SHOULD be set to _OTHER.

gen_ai.operation.name has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.

Value	Description	Stability
chat	Chat completion operation such as OpenAI Chat API
text_completion	Text completions operation such as OpenAI Completions API (Legacy)

gen_ai.system has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.

Value	Description	Stability
anthropic	Anthropic
cohere	Cohere
openai	OpenAI
vertex_ai	Vertex AI

gen_ai.token.type has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.

Value	Description	Stability
input	Input tokens (prompt, input, etc.)
output	Output tokens (completion, response, etc.)

Deprecated GenAI Attributes

Describes deprecated gen_ai attributes.

Attribute	Type	Description	Examples	Stability
gen_ai.usage.completion_tokens	int	Deprecated, use gen_ai.usage.output_tokens instead.	42	Replaced by gen_ai.usage.output_tokens attribute.
gen_ai.usage.prompt_tokens	int	Deprecated, use gen_ai.usage.input_tokens instead.	42	Replaced by gen_ai.usage.input_tokens attribute.