Status: Experimental
The Semantic Conventions for Azure AI Inference extend and override the GenAI Semantic Conventions.
gen_ai.system
MUST be set to "az.ai.inference"
and SHOULD be provided at span creation time.
Attribute | Type | Description | Examples | Requirement Level | Stability |
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gen_ai.operation.name |
string | The name of the operation being performed. [1] | chat ; text_completion ; embeddings |
Required |
|
error.type |
string | Describes a class of error the operation ended with. [2] | timeout ; java.net.UnknownHostException ; server_certificate_invalid ; 500 |
Conditionally Required if the operation ended in an error |
|
gen_ai.request.model |
string | The name of the GenAI model a request is being made to. [3] | gpt-4 |
Conditionally Required If available. |
|
server.port |
int | GenAI server port. [4] | 80 ; 8080 ; 443 |
Conditionally Required If not default (443). |
|
az.namespace |
string | Azure Resource Provider Namespace as recognized by the client. [5] | Microsoft.CognitiveServices |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.request.encoding_formats |
string[] | The encoding formats requested in an embeddings operation, if specified. [6] | ["base64"] ; ["float", "binary"] |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.request.frequency_penalty |
double | The frequency penalty setting for the GenAI request. | 0.1 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.request.max_tokens |
int | The maximum number of tokens the model generates for a request. | 100 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.request.presence_penalty |
double | The presence penalty setting for the GenAI request. | 0.1 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.request.stop_sequences |
string[] | List of sequences that the model will use to stop generating further tokens. | ["forest", "lived"] |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.request.temperature |
double | The temperature setting for the GenAI request. | 0.0 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.request.top_p |
double | The top_p sampling setting for the GenAI request. | 1.0 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.response.finish_reasons |
string[] | Array of reasons the model stopped generating tokens, corresponding to each generation received. | ["stop"] ; ["stop", "length"] |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.response.id |
string | The unique identifier for the completion. | chatcmpl-123 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.response.model |
string | The name of the model that generated the response. [7] | gpt-4-0613 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.usage.input_tokens |
int | The number of prompt tokens as reported in the usage prompt_tokens property of the response. | 100 |
Recommended |
|
gen_ai.usage.output_tokens |
int | The number of completion tokens as reported in the usage completion_tokens property of the response. | 180 |
Recommended |
|
server.address |
string | GenAI server address. [8] | example.com ; 10.1.2.80 ; /tmp/my.sock |
Recommended |
[1] gen_ai.operation.name
: If one of the predefined values applies, but specific system uses a different name it's RECOMMENDED to document it in the semantic conventions for specific GenAI system and use system-specific name in the instrumentation. If a different name is not documented, instrumentation libraries SHOULD use applicable predefined value.
[2] error.type
: The error.type
SHOULD match the error code returned by the Generative AI provider or the client library,
the canonical name of exception that occurred, or another low-cardinality error identifier.
Instrumentations SHOULD document the list of errors they report.
[3] gen_ai.request.model
: The name of the GenAI model a request is being made to. If the model is supplied by a vendor, then the value must be the exact name of the model requested. If the model is a fine-tuned custom model, the value should have a more specific name than the base model that's been fine-tuned.
[4] server.port
: When observed from the client side, and when communicating through an intermediary, server.port
SHOULD represent the server port behind any intermediaries, for example proxies, if it's available.
[5] az.namespace
: When az.namespace
attribute is populated, it MUST be set to Microsoft.CognitiveServices
for all operations performed by Azure AI Inference clients.
[6] gen_ai.request.encoding_formats
: In some GenAI systems the encoding formats are called embedding types. Also, some GenAI systems only accept a single format per request.
[7] gen_ai.response.model
: If available. The name of the GenAI model that provided the response. If the model is supplied by a vendor, then the value must be the exact name of the model actually used. If the model is a fine-tuned custom model, the value should have a more specific name than the base model that's been fine-tuned.
[8] server.address
: When observed from the client side, and when communicating through an intermediary, server.address
SHOULD represent the server address behind any intermediaries, for example proxies, if it's available.
error.type
has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.
Value | Description | Stability |
---|---|---|
_OTHER |
A fallback error value to be used when the instrumentation doesn't define a custom value. |
gen_ai.operation.name
has the following list of well-known values. If one of them applies, then the respective value MUST be used; otherwise, a custom value MAY be used.
Value | Description | Stability |
---|---|---|
chat |
Chat completion operation such as OpenAI Chat API | |
embeddings |
Embeddings operation such as OpenAI Create embeddings API | |
text_completion |
Text completions operation such as OpenAI Completions API (Legacy) |
Azure AI Inference metrics follow generic Generative AI metrics.