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PR 3 of 3 of the Langfuse v4 migration (base: jt/langfuse-v4-reads). The data-model change: dataset runs become experiments.

  • Every (dataset item, run) gets one gd-eval root span carrying langfuse.experiment.* attributes, exported once to POST /api/public/otel/v1/traces; Langfuse creates the experiment from the attributes. Scores land on that span (traceId + observationId) and, on the agentic path, are mirrored onto the gen-ai trace (core/agentic/_langfuse.py observe() / score_safe).
  • The single-shot sink (core/langfuse/sink.py) writes one experiment span plus four scores instead of the ingestion batch.
  • The eight agentic kinds pass the question, conversation id and a compact output into the span.
  • api.dataset_run_items.create (used by gdc-nas's LangfuseTraceLinker) creates an experiment item; LookupError for an item not in Langfuse.
  • Removed: the trace-version upsert (observations are immutable in v4), every ingestion and dataset-run-items call. TAVERN_E2E_SKIP_TRACE_LINK=1 now disables the whole agentic write path.
  • Metadata contract for the gdc-nas reports: langfuse.experiment.metadata.{testing_framework,github_run_id,model_version,reasoning_effort} and langfuse.observation.metadata.{gen_ai_trace_id,conversation_id}.

Feature loss, unavoidable in v4: gd-eval no longer writes version onto the gen-ai trace; filter on the gd-eval experiment's version instead.

Verified against a real Langfuse project with the package's own code: agentic path, sink, compat shim and the missing-item case — experiments, items, scores and metadata all visible through the read APIs.

Safe to bump the gdc-nas pin: only together with the gdc-nas report migration. Two facts verified on staging that the reports must account for: legacy dataset runs are not listed by GET /api/public/experiments (dual read needed during the transition), and the experiments list carries no metadata (read langfuse.experiment.metadata.* from the item's root observation). Until report.py / combo_report.py read experiments, they will show "Dataset Run Not Found" and a JUnit-only summary for the gd-eval-backed groups.

Test plan

  • tests/test_agentic_observe_experiment.py, rewritten tests/test_langfuse_sink.py, updated tests/test_langfuse_client.py
  • tests/test_langfuse_e2e_fake_server.py: agentic inline, batched, local-dataset, sink + CLI, resilience (500 on export, 429 on scores) and the gdc-nas shim call shape, all against the fake server with the real client
  • AST guard: every agentic kind passes item_input; no clock reads inside deferred scoring blocks
  • Package suite 907 passing; tox py310–py314 green; ruff, ty clean
  • Full gd-eval run against a live GoodData staging agent (needs a staging host and agent id)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Langfuse v4 experiment and trace reporting.
    • Scores can be associated with both agent traces and experiment runs.
    • Trace reports include conversation IDs, inputs, outputs, timing, and evaluation metadata.
    • Added support for LANGFUSE_BASE_URL, while retaining the legacy host setting.
    • Improved trace-window pagination for filtered and unfiltered requests.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of missing dataset items, export failures, score retries, and retry delays.
    • Improved boolean score serialization and local-dataset warning messages.
  • Documentation

    • Updated Langfuse configuration, experiment, trace-linking, and local-dataset guidance.

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The package now reports Langfuse evaluations through experiment root spans and OTLP export. Agentic runs propagate trace metadata and item inputs, write scores to multiple targets, and handle missing items, cancellation, retries, and export failures.

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Langfuse reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Agentic observation and scoring flow
packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/agentic/*, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_agentic_*, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_trace_linker.py
Agentic evaluations create experiment spans, propagate trace context, include evaluator metadata, and write scores to experiment and gen-ai traces. Tests cover cancellation, skip mode, missing items, fallback timing, and score fan-out.
Langfuse client and sink export
packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/langfuse/*, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_langfuse_client.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_langfuse_sink.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_langfuse_observations.py
The client and sink resolve dataset items, export OTLP experiment spans, normalize scores, apply retry limits, and isolate score failures. Transport-level tests validate requests and payloads.
End-to-end Langfuse validation
packages/gooddata-eval/tests/_fake_langfuse.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_langfuse_e2e_fake_server.py
The fake server and end-to-end tests cover inline and batched runs, local datasets, CLI runs, export failures, retries, cleanup, and compatibility behavior.
Documentation and CLI reporting
packages/gooddata-eval/AGENTS.md, packages/gooddata-eval/README.md, packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/cli/main.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_cli.py
Documentation and warnings now describe Langfuse v4 configuration, experiment reporting, score placement, and missing dataset items.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Evaluator
  participant RunTraceContext
  participant HttpxLangfuseClient
  participant LangfuseAPI
  Evaluator->>RunTraceContext: submit_trace_scoring(item_input)
  RunTraceContext->>HttpxLangfuseClient: observe(trace, window, conversation_id, output)
  HttpxLangfuseClient->>LangfuseAPI: resolve dataset item
  HttpxLangfuseClient->>LangfuseAPI: export experiment root span
  HttpxLangfuseClient->>LangfuseAPI: write experiment and gen-ai scores
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Langfuse dataset evaluation reporting now uses OTLP experiment spans. A valid date-form Retry-After response may be retried sooner than requested, which can add avoidable throttling during export failures; this is a bounded low merge risk.

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Parse valid HTTP-date Retry-After values.

When Retry-After contains an HTTP-date, float() raises ValueError, so _retry_delay returns the 0.5-second default. A future date can therefore trigger a retry before the server permits it. Parse both supported formats, calculate the remaining delay for a date, and apply _MAX_RETRY_DELAY.

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In `@packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/langfuse/client.py` at line 40,
Update _retry_delay to support both numeric Retry-After values and valid
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In `@packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/langfuse/client.py`:
- Around line 94-104: Update the compatibility API path around
_DatasetRunItemsAPI.create so it returns the ScoreTarget produced for the
generated experiment span instead of returning None. Preserve the existing span
export and ensure the returned target references the generated experiment
trace/root observation, allowing subsequent create_score(trace_id=...) calls to
target it rather than only the supplied trace_id.

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Follow-up required in gdc-nas before the pin bump

api.dataset_run_items.create now returns a ScoreTarget naming both the gen-ai trace and
the experiment root observation, but the SDK half only makes the fix possible. gdc-nas
currently discards that return value and scores the gen-ai trace id alone, so on this branch
alone its llm-as-judge run items still land in the experiment with no scores — the scores
sit on the gen-ai traces, where the experiment view cannot see them. Langfuse OTLP experiment
ingestion requires an experiment-item score to carry the root span's traceId as traceId
and its spanId as observationId.

Three changes, all under tests/tavern-e2e/:

1. Yield the target instead of the bare trace idapp/llm_as_judge/utils/trace_linker.py,
in LangfuseTraceLinker.observe() (the create call is at ~L196, the yield at the end of the
method):

target = None
if resolved_trace_id is not None:
    try:
        target = langfuse.api.dataset_run_items.create(...)   # was: bare call, return discarded
    except Exception as exc:
        logger.warning(...)
...
yield target or resolved_trace_id                             # was: yield resolved_trace_id

ScoreTarget subclasses str and compares equal to the gen-ai trace id, so the
Iterator[str | None] annotation and every caller that treats the yielded value as a string
stay valid.

2. Route the scores through score_safe so both destinations get written. Eight call sites,
all of them consuming that yielded value:

File Lines
app/vis_assertion.py 34, 41, 48, 55
app/search_agentic.py 112, 119
app/llm_as_judge/utils/quality_score.py 22, 34
from gooddata_eval.core.agentic._langfuse import score_safe   # same private module
                                                              # search_agentic.py already
                                                              # imports HttpxLangfuseClient from

score_safe(langfuse, trace_id, name=..., value=..., data_type=..., comment=...)
# was: langfuse.create_score(trace_id=trace_id, name=..., ...)

score_safe fans out over ScoreTarget.destinations(), sending observation_id only for the
experiment span, and is a plain single write when handed an ordinary string — so it is safe on
paths where linking failed and observe() yielded a bare id or None.

3. quality_score.py takes the target through unchanged. Its trace_id: str | None
parameter already accepts a ScoreTarget; only its two create_score calls change.

Two things to decide

  • score_safe swallows errors, logging a warning per destination, where create_score
    raises. For tavern-e2e that is probably what you want, but it is a real semantic change and
    worth a conscious yes.
  • If you would rather keep the raising behaviour, skip score_safe and iterate in place:
    for tid, obs in trace_id.destinations(): langfuse.create_score(trace_id=tid, observation_id=obs, ...),
    guarding with isinstance(trace_id, ScoreTarget) for the unlinked case.

Needs no change

app/judge.py (L18, L39) scores span.trace_id and never goes through the linker, and
microservices/gen-ai/app/infrastructure/services/tracer/langfuse_tracer.py (L113) is the
production tracer scoring its own traces — neither touches dataset_run_items.

Ordering

The gdc-nas change is source-compatible with the current pin (ScoreTarget is a str, and
today's create simply returns None, which target or resolved_trace_id already handles),
so it can land either side of the bump. Scores only reach the experiment once both are in.

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…LP root spans

observe() resolves the item's dataset and exports one experiment root span per
(dataset item, run) over OTLP instead of creating a dataset-run item, so a run is
assembled from the langfuse.experiment.* attributes gd-eval writes on its own span.
The span is timed from the gen-ai turn it describes and carries the gen-ai trace id,
latency and cost as observation metadata. score_safe writes each score to every
destination the yielded ScoreTarget names, sending observationId only for the
experiment span so the gen-ai write is the call every client already accepts.
RunTraceContext carries the pinned window and the item's question so a skill's
scoring block keeps calling ctx.observe(pt, run_idx), and the api.dataset_run_items
compat shim exports the same span, raising LookupError for an item Langfuse does not
know. The trace-version upsert goes away: v4 observations are immutable, so the model
version moves onto gd-eval's span as langfuse.version.

jira: trivial
risk: low
…riment spans from every agentic kind

Each of the eight agentic skill modules now hands its evaluated question to
submit_trace_scoring as item_input, and passes the run's conversation id and
a compact per-run result dict into ctx.observe as conversation_id and output,
so experiment spans carry what was asked and what the run produced instead
of only a trace id. Adds a parametrized AST guard in test_trace_linker.py
asserting every submit_trace_scoring call carries item_input.

jira: trivial
risk: low
…s over OTLP

LangfuseSink.log_item now exports one OTLP experiment root span per
evaluated item and posts its four scores against that span's trace and
observation id, replacing the old ingestion batch (trace-create plus
score-create events) and the dataset-run-items call. The sink builds its
HttpxLangfuseClient through a new keyword-only transport parameter so
tests inject an httpx.MockTransport instead of patching httpx.Client.
When a dataset item cannot be resolved, the span is still exported and
scored, just without experiment attributes.

jira: trivial
risk: low
…st a fake server

Six end-to-end tests drive the real client, sink and CLI against the in-process fake
Langfuse server over HTTP, asserting the whole request sequence a run produces: poll
/v2/observations for the conversation, look the dataset item up, export one experiment
root span over OTLP, and score both that span and the gen-ai trace. Covers the inline
agentic path, the batched path through run_agentic_items, a dataset item Langfuse does
not know, the single-shot sink under the CLI, a refused span export and a rate-limited
score.

jira: trivial
risk: low
…aset-run code paths

Drops the dataset-run-items compat shim from the client and the legacy /traces,
/ingestion and /dataset-run-items routes from the fake server, so nothing in the package
names an endpoint Langfuse v4 does not serve. The CLI's local-dataset warning and the
skip-switch test now describe the dataset-item lookup that actually runs. A BOOLEAN score
is coerced to 1.0/0.0 by its dataType rather than its Python type, so the sink's int 1/0
serialises as a float, and the sink stamps LANGFUSE_TRACING_ENVIRONMENT and leads its tags
with "gd-eval" exactly as the agentic path does.

jira: trivial
risk: low
Documents the run as one Langfuse experiment whose items are traces with an
experiment-carrying root span, the four REST endpoints the package speaks and the
2026-11-16 Cloud cutover, and corrects the env vars to LANGFUSE_BASE_URL with LANGFUSE_HOST
as the legacy alias. The local-dataset and skip-switch notes describe what actually
happens now, and the AGENTS.md architecture row names every module under core/langfuse.

jira: trivial
risk: low
…den the Langfuse score path

Brings back api.dataset_run_items.create on the httpx client, exporting one experiment root
span for external callers on the dataset-run vocabulary. The score path answers a cancelled
drain before it reaches HTTP rather than sleeping through create_score's retries, an
unfiltered trace read pages at the API maximum and twice as deep, and observe() documents
the ScoreTarget contract for callers that write scores with create_score directly.

jira: trivial
risk: low
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