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Spanlens: Open-source platform for LLM observability and optimization

Spanlens is a new open-source LLM observability platform designed to help developers monitor and optimize their AI application interactions. It integrates with various LLM providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Mistral, by acting as a proxy to record detailed information about each API call. The platform offers features for cost tracking, agent tracing, anomaly detection, and security scanning for PII and prompt injection. AI

IMPACT Provides developers with tools to monitor and optimize LLM usage, potentially reducing costs and improving performance.

RANK_REASON This is a new product release for developers, not a frontier model release or significant industry event.

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Spanlens: Open-source platform for LLM observability and optimization

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 Norsk(NO) · HAESEONG JEON ·

    Spanlens

    <p>Spanlens is an open-source (MIT) LLM observability platform that lets developers monitor every call their application makes to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, OpenRouter, Azure OpenAI, or a local Ollama model. Integration takes one line: swap your client's baseURL to the S…