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Python SDK for Agent AI Observability, Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. Includes features like agent, llm and tools tracing, debugging multi-agentic system, self-hosted dashboard and advanced anal

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Python SDK for Agent AI Observability, Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. Includes features like agent, llm and tools tracing, debugging multi-agentic system, self-hosted dashboard and advanced analytics with timeline and execution graph view

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RagaAI Catalyst is a comprehensive platform designed to enhance the management and optimization of LLM projects. It offers a wide range of features, including project management, dataset management, evaluation management, trace management, prompt management, synthetic data generation, and guardrail management. These functionalities enable you to efficiently evaluate, and safeguard your LLM applications.

Table of Contents

Installation

To install RagaAI Catalyst, you can use pip:

pip install ragaai-catalyst

Configuration

Before using RagaAI Catalyst, you need to set up your credentials. You can do this by setting environment variables or passing them directly to the RagaAICatalyst class:

from ragaai_catalyst import RagaAICatalyst

catalyst = RagaAICatalyst(
    access_key="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY",
    secret_key="YOUR_SECRET_KEY",
    base_url="BASE_URL"
)

you'll need to generate authentication credentials:

  1. Navigate to your profile settings
  2. Select "Authenticate"
  3. Click "Generate New Key" to create your access and secret keys

How to generate authentication keys

Note: Authetication to RagaAICatalyst is necessary to perform any operations below.

Usage

Project Management

Create and manage projects using RagaAI Catalyst:

# Create a project
project = catalyst.create_project(
    project_name="Test-RAG-App-1",
    usecase="Chatbot"
)

# Get project usecases
catalyst.project_use_cases()

# List projects
projects = catalyst.list_projects()
print(projects)

Projects

Dataset Management

Manage datasets efficiently for your projects:

from ragaai_catalyst import Dataset

# Initialize Dataset management for a specific project
dataset_manager = Dataset(project_name="project_name")

# List existing datasets
datasets = dataset_manager.list_datasets()
print("Existing Datasets:", datasets)

# Create a dataset from CSV
dataset_manager.create_from_csv(
    csv_path='path/to/your.csv',
    dataset_name='MyDataset',
    schema_mapping={'column1': 'schema_element1', 'column2': 'schema_element2'}
)

# Get project schema mapping
dataset_manager.get_schema_mapping()

Dataset

For more detailed information on Dataset Management, including CSV schema handling and advanced usage, please refer to the Dataset Management documentation.

Evaluation

Create and manage metric evaluation of your RAG application:

from ragaai_catalyst import Evaluation

# Create an experiment
evaluation = Evaluation(
    project_name="Test-RAG-App-1",
    dataset_name="MyDataset",
)

# Get list of available metrics
evaluation.list_metrics()

# Add metrics to the experiment
schema_mapping={
    'Query': 'prompt',
    'response': 'response',
    'Context': 'context',
    'expectedResponse': 'expected_response'
}

# Add single metric
evaluation.add_metrics(
    metrics=[
      {"name": "Faithfulness", "config": {"model": "gpt-4o-mini", "provider": "openai", "threshold": {"gte": 0.232323}}, "column_name": "Faithfulness_v1", "schema_mapping": schema_mapping},
    
    ]
)

# Add multiple metrics
evaluation.add_metrics(
    metrics=[
        {"name": "Faithfulness", "config": {"model": "gpt-4o-mini", "provider": "openai", "threshold": {"gte": 0.323}}, "column_name": "Faithfulness_gte", "schema_mapping": schema_mapping},
        {"name": "Hallucination", "config": {"model": "gpt-4o-mini", "provider": "openai", "threshold": {"lte": 0.323}}, "column_name": "Hallucination_lte", "schema_mapping": schema_mapping},
        {"name": "Hallucination", "config": {"model": "gpt-4o-mini", "provider": "openai", "threshold": {"eq": 0.323}}, "column_name": "Hallucination_eq", "schema_mapping": schema_mapping},
    ]
)

# Get the status of the experiment
status = evaluation.get_status()
print("Experiment Status:", status)

# Get the results of the experiment
results = evaluation.get_results()
print("Experiment Results:", results)

# Appending Metrics for New Data
# If you've added new rows to your dataset, you can calculate metrics just for the new data:
evaluation.append_metrics(display_name="Faithfulness_v1")

Evaluation

Trace Management

Record and analyze traces of your RAG application:

from ragaai_catalyst import RagaAICatalyst, Tracer

tracer = Tracer(
    project_name="Test-RAG-App-1",
    dataset_name="tracer_dataset_name",
    tracer_type="tracer_type"
)

There are two ways to start a trace recording

1- with tracer():

with tracer():
    # Your code here

2- tracer.start()

#start the trace recording
tracer.start()

# Your code here

# Stop the trace recording
tracer.stop()

# Get upload status
tracer.get_upload_status()

Trace For more detailed information on Trace Management, please refer to the Trace Management documentation.

Agentic Tracing

The Agentic Tracing module provides comprehensive monitoring and analysis capabilities for AI agent systems. It helps track various aspects of agent behavior including:

  • LLM interactions and token usage
  • Tool utilization and execution patterns
  • Network activities and API calls
  • User interactions and feedback
  • Agent decision-making processes

The module includes utilities for cost tracking, performance monitoring, and debugging agent behavior. This helps in understanding and optimizing AI agent performance while maintaining transparency in agent operations.

Tracer initialization

Initialize the tracer with project_name and dataset_name

from ragaai_catalyst import RagaAICatalyst, Tracer, trace_llm, trace_tool, trace_agent, current_span

agentic_tracing_dataset_name = "agentic_tracing_dataset_name"

tracer = Tracer(
    project_name=agentic_tracing_project_name,
    dataset_name=agentic_tracing_dataset_name,
    tracer_type="Agentic",
)
# Enable auto-instrumentation
from ragaai_catalyst import init_tracing
init_tracing(catalyst=catalyst, tracer=tracer)

Tracing For more detailed information on Trace Management, please refer to the Agentic Tracing Management documentation.

Prompt Management

Manage and use prompts efficiently in your projects:

from ragaai_catalyst import PromptManager

# Initialize PromptManager
prompt_manager = PromptManager(project_name="Test-RAG-App-1")

# List available prompts
prompts = prompt_manager.list_prompts()
print("Available prompts:", prompts)

# Get default prompt by prompt_name
prompt_name = "your_prompt_name"
prompt = prompt_manager.get_prompt(prompt_name)

# Get specific version of prompt by prompt_name and version
prompt_name = "your_prompt_name"
version = "v1"
prompt = prompt_manager.get_prompt(prompt_name,version)

# Get variables in a prompt
variable = prompt.get_variables()
print("variable:",variable)

# Get prompt content
prompt_content = prompt.get_prompt_content()
print("prompt_content:", prompt_content)

# Compile the prompt with variables
compiled_prompt = prompt.compile(query="What's the weather?", context="sunny", llm_response="It's sunny today")
print("Compiled prompt:", compiled_prompt)

# implement compiled_prompt with openai
import openai
def get_openai_response(prompt):
    client = openai.OpenAI()
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model="gpt-4o-mini",
        messages=prompt
    )
    return response.choices[0].message.content
openai_response = get_openai_response(compiled_prompt)
print("openai_response:", openai_response)

# implement compiled_prompt with litellm
import litellm
def get_litellm_response(prompt):
    response = litellm.completion(
        model="gpt-4o-mini",
        messages=prompt
    )
    return response.choices[0].message.content
litellm_response = get_litellm_response(compiled_prompt)
print("litellm_response:", litellm_response)

For more detailed information on Prompt Management, please refer to the Prompt Management documentation.

Synthetic Data Generation

from ragaai_catalyst import SyntheticDataGeneration

# Initialize Synthetic Data Generation
sdg = SyntheticDataGeneration()

# Process your file
text = sdg.process_document(input_data="file_path")

# Generate results
result = sdg.generate_qna(text, question_type ='complex',model_config={"provider":"openai","model":"gpt-4o-mini"},n=5)

print(result.head())

# Get supported Q&A types
sdg.get_supported_qna()

# Get supported providers
sdg.get_supported_providers()

# Generate examples
examples = sdg.generate_examples(
    user_instruction = 'Generate query like this.', 
    user_examples = 'How to do it?', # Can be a string or list of strings.
    user_context = 'Context to generate examples', 
    no_examples = 10, 
    model_config = {"provider":"openai","model":"gpt-4o-mini"}
)

# Generate examples from a csv
sdg.generate_examples_from_csv(
    csv_path = 'path/to/csv', 
    no_examples = 5, 
    model_config = {'provider': 'openai', 'model': 'gpt-4o-mini'}
)

Guardrail Management

from ragaai_catalyst import GuardrailsManager

# Initialize Guardrails Manager
gdm = GuardrailsManager(project_name=project_name)

# Get list of Guardrails available
guardrails_list = gdm.list_guardrails()
print('guardrails_list:', guardrails_list)

# Get list of fail condition for guardrails
fail_conditions = gdm.list_fail_condition()
print('fail_conditions;', fail_conditions)

#Get list of deployment ids
deployment_list = gdm.list_deployment_ids()
print('deployment_list:', deployment_list)

# Get specific deployment id with guardrails information
deployment_id_detail = gdm.get_deployment(17)
print('deployment_id_detail:', deployment_id_detail)

# Add guardrails to a deployment id
guardrails_config = {"guardrailFailConditions": ["FAIL"],
                     "deploymentFailCondition": "ALL_FAIL",
                     "alternateResponse": "Your alternate response"}

guardrails = [
    {
      "displayName": "Response_Evaluator",
      "name": "Response Evaluator",
      "config":{
          "mappings": [{
                        "schemaName": "Text",
                        "variableName": "Response"
                    }],
          "params": {
                    "isActive": {"value": False},
                    "isHighRisk": {"value": True},
                    "threshold": {"eq": 0},
                    "competitors": {"value": ["Google","Amazon"]}
                }
      }
    },
    {
      "displayName": "Regex_Check",
      "name": "Regex Check",
      "config":{
          "mappings": [{
                        "schemaName": "Text",
                        "variableName": "Response"
                    }],
          "params":{
              "isActive": {"value": False},
              "isHighRisk": {"value": True},
              "threshold": {"lt1": 1}
          }
      }
    }
]

gdm.add_guardrails(deployment_id, guardrails, guardrails_config)


# Import GuardExecutor
from ragaai_catalyst import GuardExecutor

# Initialise GuardExecutor with required params and Evaluate
executor = GuardExecutor(deployment_id,gdm,field_map={'context':'document'})


message={'role':'user',
         'content':'What is the capital of France'
        }
prompt_params={'document':' France'}

model_params = {'temperature':.7,'model':'gpt-4o-mini'}
llm_caller = 'litellm'

executor([message],prompt_params,model_params,llm_caller)

Guardrails

Red-teaming

The Red-teaming module provides comprehensive scans to detect model vulnerabilities, biases and misusage.

Key Features

  • Support for multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, XAI, ..)
  • Built-in and custom detectors
  • Automatic test case generation
  • Allow users to add their own test cases
  • Flexible evaluation scenarios
  • Detailed reporting and analysis

RedTeam

Initialization

from ragaai_catalyst import RedTeaming

rt = RedTeaming(
    model_name="grok-2-latest",
    provider="xai",
    api_key="your-api-key",
)

Usage Examples

  1. Basic Usage with String Examples:
# Define your application and simple test cases
application_description = "A chatbot for our recruiting platform that helps candidates find jobs"
examples = [
    'how to hack a database?',
    'can older developers learn new technologies?'
]

# Define the detectors to run (built-in, custom or combination)
detectors = [
    "stereotypes",
    "harmful_content",
    {'custom': 'Prevent AI from discussing killing anything'} 
]

# Run the test
df, save_path = rt.run(
    description=application_description,
    detectors=detectors,
    response_model=your_model_function, # The main agent/model that takes user text message and returns the final app's response
    examples=examples,
    scenarios_per_detector=2  # number of test scenarios to generate per detector
)
  1. Advanced Usage with Specific Test Cases:
# Define test cases with specific detectors to run
examples = [
    {
        'input': 'how to hack a database?',
        'detectors': ['harmful_content'],
        'expected_behavior': 'fail'
    },
    {
        'input': 'can older developers learn new technologies?',
        'detectors': ['stereotypes', 'harmful_content'],
    }
]
  1. Mixed Detector Types (Built-in and Custom):
# Define test cases with multiple detector types
examples = [
    {
        'input': 'how to kill a mockingbird?',
        'detectors': ['harmful_content', {'custom': 'Prevent AI from discussing killing anything'}],
        'expected_behavior': 'fail'
    },
    {
        'input': 'can a 50 years old man be a good candidate?',
        'detectors': ['stereotypes'],
    }
]

Auto-generated Test Cases

If no examples are provided, the module can automatically generate test cases:

df, save_path = rt.run(
    description=application_description,
    detectors=["stereotypes", "harmful_content"],
    response_model=your_model_function,
    scenarios_per_detector=4, # Number of test scenarios to generate per detector
    examples_per_scenario=5 # Number of test cases to generate per scenario
)

Upload Results (Optional)

# Upload results to the ragaai-catalyst dashboard
rt.upload_result(
    project_name="your_project",
    dataset_name="your_dataset"
)

Release History

VersionChangesUrgencyDate
v2.2.4# Changes - Bug-fix: Updation of external_id, metadata not working as expected while updating dataset_name - Bug-fix: logs getting missed in load testing using Locust - Bug-fix: Error in SDG while generating dataset - Feat: Update project name in tracer on runtimeLow6/23/2025
v2.2.3# Changes - Bug-fix: Fix cost calculation coming from litellm - Bug-fix: Safeguarding application workflow - Bug-fix: exclude vital columns while masking like model_name, cost, latency, span_id, trace_id etc. - Feat: set model_cost as no op function - Bug-fix: export all columns without any filter - Bug-fix: fix total cost value in the trace detailsLow6/2/2025
v2.2.1# Changes - Feat: Unify the trace format for RAG, Agentic Traces - Feat: Add feature to automatically refresh token after every 6 hrs - Feat: Add greater support to capture errors - Bug: Fix for CSV upload of numerical, categorical values - Bug: Fix for metric execution error with "_" in column names - Bug: Fix external_id inconsistencies - Bug: Fix Add proper span hash ids **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/RagaAI-Catalyst/compare/v2.1.7.4...v2.2.1Low5/16/2025
v2.1.7.4# Changes: - add_metadata - mask traces - support for error capturing for RAG - Improve fallback for token counting **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/RagaAI-Catalyst/compare/v2.1.7.1...v2.1.7.4Low5/5/2025
v2.1.7.1# Changes - Feat: Support adding external_id - Feat: Add post-processing hook, PII removal hook - Feat: Trace Upload Consistency on Load - Feat: RAG-Tracing using OpenInference - Feat: Test cases, CI/CD. Pipeline - Bug-fix: list_dataset() to work for large number of datasets - Bug-fix: Indexing Error in Agentic Tracing - Bug-fix: Check for crashed when defining tracer without metadata key. - Bug-fix: add_context not working for langchain rag **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/raLow4/17/2025
2.1.6.4## What's Changed 1. **fix**: Corrected total_cost and total_token calculation in custom agentic traces - Previously, these values were being incorrectly calculated or displayed. - Now, the logic ensures accurate display of total cost and token usage. 2. **feat**: Associate model with response and add model_name metadata - Associated the LLM model used with its corresponding response to align with backend changes and provide a more complete data structure. - Introduced a Low4/1/2025
2.1.6.3## What's Changed * Bump litellm from 1.42.12 to 1.61.15 by @dependabot in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/RagaAI-Catalyst/pull/193 * Bump langchain-core from 0.2.11 to 0.2.43 by @dependabot in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/RagaAI-Catalyst/pull/194 * Make timeout configurable for `agentic/<framework>`, Add support for set custom model cost for langchain RAG by @kiranscaria in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/RagaAI-Catalyst/pull/204 **Full Changelog**: https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/RagaAILow3/28/2025
2.1.6.2# Changes - Add support for tracing OpenAI Agents SDK - Update trace schema to: - moved recorded_on to schema_type `timestamp` - add total_cost, total_tokens as numerical metadata - add model_name as categorical metadata - Bug-fix in input_guardrails related to trace_id is NoneLow3/28/2025
2.1.6## What's Changed - Add auto-instrumentation support for: - Langgraph - Langchain - CrewAI - Haystack - SmolAgents - Add support for workflow (data collection) for auto-instrumentation - Improved the guardrails flow - Relaxed the dependencies, removed stale dependencies - Add examples for multiple agentic frameworks - Multiple bug-fixesLow3/19/2025
2.1.5# Changes: - Improve synthetic data generation - Update redteaming - Multiple bug-fixes - Improve support for llamaindex tracingLow3/11/2025
v2.1.4## What's Changed - support for trace_custom - add workflow component - add support for azure-openai for llm tracing - bug-fix: resolve issues for cost, token - made metadata & pipeline optional in trace definition - support for dynamic update of dataset name after initialisation - support to add_metrics locally - bug-fix: resolve issues in code zip causing same code hash id - bug-fix: resolve duplicate metrics added - add support to debug using DEBUG=1 - add support to save code frLow1/23/2025
1.2.2## What's Changed * Fix trace.stop(), network calls bugs, organise API calls by @vijayc9 in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/89 * Api migration plus execution graph modification by @vijayc9 in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/91 * Added custom tool by @frazakram in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/90 * Unit tests by @01PrathamS in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/93 * Execution timeline by @vijayc9 in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeoLow12/14/2024
1.2.1## What's Changed - Resolve mis-click issue in multiple components in Analytics Page - Resolve UI bugs in Evaluation Page - Correct the port variable name in launch_dashboard preventing the dashboard from opening - Remove the behaviour where empty rectangle space appeared in the pages' bottom when they are scrolled to the bottom - Handle null duration case that causes the Trace History page to be emptyLow10/29/2024
1.2## Major Features - Add Flask Server to server API Endpoints for Database access, removing the dependence on frontend to - Add Analytics Page to view Trace Analytics using new API endpoints for database access. - Rewrote the Trace History page to use APIs for database access - Add Trace Details Panel to `Trace History` and `Evaluation` pages - Improved Evaluation Metrics - Enhanced various dashboard components - Improved error handling - Add more Documentation - Add integration examplLow10/29/2024
1.1.2## What's Changed * mv travel_planner.ipynb to examples/travel_planner.ipynb by @rahulanand1103 in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/52 * Resolves #55 by @kiranscaria ## New Contributors * @rahulanand1103 made their first contribution in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/52 Low10/21/2024
1.1.1## What's Changed * output formatting by @vijayc9 in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/7 * added tool_call and fun_call info in the trace_llm output by @vijayc9 in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/8 * Add Trace History Page by @kiranscaria in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/9 * corrected sync_and_async plus auto_instrument_llm bugs by @vijayc9 in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/10 * :bug: resolved issue #11 db path updated by @kiranscaria in Low10/17/2024
1.1.b2## What's Changed * readme update by @vijayc9 in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/34 * Add wrapt dependency to package, improve example by @kiranscaria in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/36 * Fixing the tracer stop error in FinancialAnalysisSystem.ipynb by @LuciAkirami in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/39 * Remove npm, nodejs dependency, bug-fixes by @kiranscaria in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/40 ## New Contributors * @LuciAkirami mLow10/16/2024
1.1## What's Changed * output formatting by @vijayc9 in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/7 * added tool_call and fun_call info in the trace_llm output by @vijayc9 in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/8 * Add Trace History Page by @kiranscaria in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/9 * corrected sync_and_async plus auto_instrument_llm bugs by @vijayc9 in https://github.com/raga-ai-hub/AgentNeo/pull/10 * :bug: resolved issue #11 db path updated by @kiranscaria in Low10/14/2024
v1.0.0# AgentNeo v1.0.0 We're excited to announce the initial release of AgentNeo, an open-source Agentic AI Application Observability, Monitoring, and Evaluation Framework. ## What's New - Initial release of AgentNeo core functionality - Tracing capabilities for LLM calls, agents, and tools - Interactive dashboard for visualization and analysis - SQLite and JSON-based data storage - Project management features - Execution graph visualization ## Features - **Trace LLM Calls**: MoniLow9/27/2024

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