docs: add OrcaReplay to the external tracing processors list - #5039
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What
One line appended to External tracing processors list in
docs/tracing.md.Disclosure: I maintain OrcaReplay. Apache-2.0, free, no paid tier, no account, no hosted service.
It is a tracing processor, which is what this list is for
orcareplay-openai-agentsinstalls anOrcaTracingProcessorthrough the SDK's own API:It implements
on_trace_start/on_trace_end/on_span_start/on_span_endand writes agent, handoff and guardrail spans to disk. It is not a subclass ofagents.tracing.TracingProcessoronly because that would force an SDK import at definition time; it satisfies the protocol.Two details that seemed worth getting right rather than assuming:
add_trace_processoris used, notset_trace_processors, so a user who later registers their own still gets theirs — ours is appended, not substituted. A user who deliberately callsset_trace_processorsreplaces ours, which is their explicit choice.pip install orcareplay-openai-agentsWhat it is for, stated plainly
The rest of OrcaReplay records model traffic at a proxy and replays it later with the provider unreachable, so a past run reproduces without a key. That proxy sees HTTP and nothing else — which agent was speaking, which handoff fired, which guardrail tripped are not on the wire. This package supplies exactly that structure, so the recording carries the run's shape alongside its bytes.
Where it sits relative to the rest of the list: the other entries send traces to a backend for viewing and analysis. This one writes them next to a recording that can be served back, so the same session happens again offline. Complementary rather than competing — several people will reasonably run one of the above and this.
Limits I would rather state than have found
egress=blockedmeans model-provider egress only. Recorded tool calls still execute for real on replay; it is not a sandbox.Placement
Appended to the end of the list, which is where the most recent entries have gone, rather than inserted by perceived importance. Happy to move it, reword it, or have it declined — it is your list.