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Aleph Alpha

Trace Aleph Alpha Luminous model calls with Respan.
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1{
2  "mcpServers": {
3    "respan-docs": {
4      "url": "https://docs.respan.ai/mcp"
5    }
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7}

What is Aleph Alpha?

Aleph Alpha is a European AI company offering the Luminous family of large language models. Their API provides text generation, semantic embeddings, and multimodal capabilities with a focus on enterprise use cases and data sovereignty.

Setup

1

Install packages

$pip install respan-ai opentelemetry-instrumentation-alephalpha aleph-alpha-client python-dotenv
2

Set environment variables

$export ALEPH_ALPHA_API_KEY="YOUR_ALEPH_ALPHA_API_KEY"
$export RESPAN_API_KEY="YOUR_RESPAN_API_KEY"
$export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="https://api.respan.ai/api"
$export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS="Authorization=Bearer $RESPAN_API_KEY"
3

Initialize and run

1import os
2from dotenv import load_dotenv
3
4load_dotenv()
5
6from aleph_alpha_client import Client, CompletionRequest, Prompt
7from respan import Respan
8
9# Auto-discover and activate all installed instrumentors
10respan = Respan(is_auto_instrument=True)
11
12# Calls to Aleph Alpha are auto-traced by Respan
13client = Client(token=os.getenv("ALEPH_ALPHA_API_KEY"))
14
15request = CompletionRequest(
16    prompt=Prompt.from_text("Say hello in three languages:"),
17    maximum_tokens=100,
18)
19response = client.complete(request, model="luminous-base")
20print(response.completions[0].completion)
21respan.flush()
4

View your trace

Open the Traces page to see your auto-instrumented LLM spans.

What gets traced

  • Model name (Luminous family)
  • Prompt and completion tokens
  • Input/output content
  • Response latency
  • Hosting region

Traces appear in the Traces dashboard.

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