Option to disable runtime messaging events

[DixitAdh]

@ekzhu @victordibia I posted this question on other discussion thread but thought maybe it's better to ask here. I am trying to find a way to disable runtime messaging events. I want to customise my instrumentation and want to capture mostly the span attributes related to llm calls and tools but with the runtime event the whole hierarchy just gets spammed with too much information.

[EItanya]

I was going to create a similar issue as well. I think this will be very important for the 99% use case. Tracing today is really meant to trace the core runtime, but most users don’t care about that, they only care about the interactions they control.

[DixitAdh]

@EItanya haven't received any response yet, Do you know any other maintainer who could answer this question?

[victordibia]

Hi folks,
Thanks for the discussion.
Quick question, has anyone tried filtering the messages consumed/displayed by the instrumentation sink itself?
I'll try to dig in a bit more and possibly update the example docs based on what I find.

[DixitAdh]

@victordibia I couldn't find a way to filter these messages. Would be nice if you have any suggestion on how to filter/silent these.

[DixitAdh]

@EItanya @victordibia I found the way to silent the event traces from the runtime using NoOpTracerProvider class. I passed the instance of this class in runtime like below. I hope this is useful for others too!

runtime = SingleThreadedAgentRuntime(tracer_provider=NoOpTracerProvider())

[EItanya]

This is only a half solution in my opinion. If I am running a team with multiple agents, I still want traces for my agents, the above solution disables ALL tracing for the agents as well as the runtime.

I will look into some sort of filtering, but then we might need to start messing with parents and all that.

[DixitAdh]

@ekzhu any comments? if there is a way to suppress these event messages?

[ekzhu]

I agree we should separate tracing from the runtime, and tracing of agent chat agents.

I will create issues for these