Integration Cohere
title: Integrate Cohere with Langfuse sidebarTitle: Cohere description: Guide on integrating Cohere with Langfuse via the OpenAI SDK for observability and debugging. category: Integrations logo: /images/integrations/cohere_icon.svg
Observability for Cohere with Langfuse
This guide shows you how to integrate Cohere with Langfuse using the OpenAI SDK Compatibility API. Trace and monitor your applications seamlessly.
What is Cohere? Cohere is an AI platform that provides state-of-the-art language models via API, allowing developers to build applications with natural language understanding capabilities.
What is Langfuse? Langfuse is an open source LLM engineering platform for tracing, monitoring, and debugging LLM applications.
Step 1: Install Dependencies
Ensure you have the necessary Python packages installed:
Step 2: Set Up Environment Variables
Step 3: Use Cohere with the OpenAI SDK
Leverage the Compatibility API by replacing the base URL with Cohere's endpoint when initializing the client.
Step 4: Run an Example
The example below demonstrates a basic chat completion request. All API calls are automatically traced by Langfuse.
Step 5: See Traces in Langfuse
After running the example, log in to Langfuse to view the detailed traces, including request parameters, response content, token usage, and latency metrics.
