Cognee is an open-source memory engine with a semantic graph at its core that provides observability for AI agents and semantic workflows. The Cognee–Respan integration patches Cognee’s @observe decorator so every task and workflow run becomes a Respan span automatically.
Create an account at platform.respan.ai and grab an API key.
Run npx @respan/cli setup to set up with your coding agent.
MONITORING_TOOL=respan tells Cognee to use Respan as its observability backend. LLM_API_KEY is required if your pipeline calls LLMs.
Open the Traces page to see your Cognee workflow with task spans, knowledge graph operations, and LLM calls.
The Respan integration patches Cognee’s get_observe() at import time so:
@observe maps to Respan’s task() decorator.@observe(workflow=True) maps to Respan’s workflow() decorator.RespanTelemetry() on import.