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Overview

This guide shows you how to integrate Latitude Telemetry into an application that uses Strands Agents — AWS’s open-source AI agents SDK. Strands Agents has first-class OpenTelemetry support built in (strands-agents[otel]). It emits standard gen_ai.* spans for every agent run, LLM call, and tool execution, so you can point Strands’ OTLP exporter directly at Latitude’s ingestion endpoint — no Latitude SDK required.
You’ll keep using Strands Agents exactly as you do today. The exporter simply sends your traces to Latitude alongside any other observability backend.
The Strands Agents integration is Python only.

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Requirements

  • A Latitude account and API key
  • A Latitude project slug
  • A Python project that uses Strands Agents (strands-agents)

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Steps

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Install

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Configure the exporter

Set the required environment variables so Strands sends traces to Latitude:
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is the base URL — the OTel SDK automatically appends /v1/traces. Do not include the path yourself or traces will fail to reach Latitude.
Then initialize telemetry before creating your agent:
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Ensure GenAI span attributes

Getting traces into Latitude is only half the job. For Latitude to display the model name, token counts, and input/output messages, your spans must carry the right gen_ai.* attributes in the format Latitude expects.OTEL_SEMCONV_STABILITY_OPT_IN=gen_ai_latest_experimental (set in the previous step) tells Strands to emit these attributes automatically.See GenAI Span Attributes for the full list of required attributes and the exact message format Latitude expects.

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What you get

Each agent run shows up as a trace with nested spans:
  • Agent spans — agent name, ID, description, user message, full response, total token usage
  • Cycle spans — one span per event-loop cycle with event_loop.cycle_id
  • LLM spans — model invocations with input/output messages, token counts (prompt, completion, cache), model parameters
  • Tool spans — tool name, input arguments, output result, and tool.status

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Seeing Your Traces

Once connected, traces appear automatically in Latitude:
  1. Open your project in the Latitude dashboard
  2. Each agent run shows the full hierarchy: agent → LLM calls → tool executions
  3. Token usage and latency are aggregated at every level