Openlayer integrates with LangGraph via Langchain Callbacks. Therfore, Openlayer automatically traces every run of your LangGraph applications.

This allows you to set up tests, log, and analyze your LangGraph application with minimal integration efforts.

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Evaluating LangGraph applications

You can set up Openlayer tests to evaluate your LangGraph applications in development and monitoring.

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Development

In development mode, Openlayer becomes a step in your CI/CD pipeline, and your tests get automatically evaluated after being triggered by some events.

Openlayer tests often rely on your AI system’s outputs on a validation dataset. As discussed in the Configuring output generation guide, you have two options:

  1. either provide a way for Openlayer to run your AI system on your datasets, or
  2. before pushing, generate the model outputs yourself and push them alongside your artifacts.

For LangGraph applications, if you are not computing your system’s outputs yourself, you must provide the required API credentials.

For example, if you application uses LangChain’s ChatOpenAI, you provide an OPENAI_API_KEY, if it uses ChatMistralAI, you must provide a MISTRAL_API_KEY, and so on.

To provide the required API credentials, navigate to “Settings” > “Workspace secrets,” and add the credentials as secrets.

If you do not see a field for the API credential your application needs, click the “Add secret” button on the top to add additional secrets.

If fail to add the required credentials, you’ll likely encounter a “Missing API key” error when Openlayer tries to run your AI system to get its outputs:

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Monitoring

To use the monitoring mode, you must set up a way to publish the requests your AI system receives to the Openlayer platform. This process is streamlined for LangGraph applications with the Openlayer Callback Handler.

To set it up, you must follow the steps in the code snippet below:

# 1. Set the environment variables
import os

os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY_HERE"
os.environ["OPENLAYER_API_KEY"] = "YOUR_OPENLAYER_API_KEY_HERE"
os.environ["OPENLAYER_INFERENCE_PIPELINE_ID"] = "YOUR_OPENLAYER_INFERENCE_PIPELINE_ID_HERE"

# 2. Instantiate the `OpenlayerHandler`
from openlayer.lib.integrations import langchain_callback

openlayer_handler = langchain_callback.OpenlayerHandler()

# 3. Use LangGraph's `stream` method to pass the handler to your LLM/chain invocations
from typing import Annotated
from typing_extensions import TypedDict

from langgraph.graph import StateGraph
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
from langchain_core.messages import HumanMessage
from langgraph.graph.message import add_messages

class State(TypedDict):
# Messages have the type "list". The `add_messages` function in the annotation defines how this state key should be updated
# (in this case, it appends messages to the list, rather than overwriting them)
messages: Annotated[list, add_messages]

graph_builder = StateGraph(State)

llm = ChatOpenAI(model = "gpt-4o", temperature = 0.2)

# The chatbot node function takes the current State as input and returns an updated messages list. This is the basic pattern for all LangGraph node functions.
def chatbot(state: State):
    return {"messages": [llm.invoke(state["messages"])]}

# Add a "chatbot" node. Nodes represent units of work. They are typically regular python functions.
graph_builder.add_node("chatbot", chatbot)

# Add an entry point. This tells our graph where to start its work each time we run it.
graph_builder.set_entry_point("chatbot")

# Set a finish point. This instructs the graph "any time this node is run, you can exit."
graph_builder.set_finish_point("chatbot")

# To be able to run our graph, call "compile()" on the graph builder. This creates a "CompiledGraph" we can use invoke on our state.
graph = graph_builder.compile()

# Pass the openlayer_handler as a callback to the LangGraph graph. After running the graph,
# you'll be able to see the traces in the Openlayer platform.
for s in graph.stream({"messages": [HumanMessage(content = "What is the meaning of life?")]},
                      config={"callbacks": [openlayer_handler]}):
    print(s)

See full Python example

The code snippet above uses builds a simple chatbot. However, the Openlayer Callback Handler also works for more complex LangGraph applications, including multi-agent workflows. Refer to the final section of the notebook example for a tracing example for multi-agent workflows.

Once the code is set up, all your invocations are automatically published to Openlayer, along with metadata, such as latency, number of tokens, cost estimate, and more.

If you navigate to the “Requests” page of your Openlayer inference pipeline, you can see the traces for each request.

If the LangGraph graph invocation is just one of the steps of your AI system, you can use the code snippets above together with tracing. In this case, your graph invocations get added as steps of a larger trace. Refer to the Tracing guide for details.

After your AI system requests are continuously published and logged by Openlayer, you can create tests that run at a regular cadence on top of them.

Refer to the Monitoring overview, for details on Openlayer’s monitoring mode, to the Publishing data guide, for more information on setting it up, or to the Tracing guide, to understand how to trace more complex systems.