You're Flying Blind: Adding LLM Observability to Spring AI with OpenTelemetry and Self-Hosted Langfuse

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Add LLM observability to Spring AI using OpenTelemetry and Self-Hosted Langfuse to fix the observability gap in LLM-enabled Java services

intermediate Published 25 Apr 2026
Action Steps
  1. Add OpenTelemetry to your Spring Boot service to capture LLM-related metrics
  2. Configure Self-Hosted Langfuse to collect and store LLM-specific data
  3. Integrate OpenTelemetry with Langfuse to correlate LLM metrics with application performance
  4. Use the collected data to identify and fix performance bottlenecks in the LLM call
  5. Implement custom instrumentation to capture additional LLM-related metrics
Who Needs to Know This

Developers and DevOps teams can benefit from this approach to improve the performance and reliability of their LLM-enabled services

Key Insight

💡 Standard APM tools are insufficient for capturing LLM-related performance issues, requiring custom observability solutions

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