name: langfuse
version: 0.13.0
description: Investigate AI traces, observations, exceptions, latency, sessions, prompts, datasets, annotation queues, and scores through Langfuse MCP. Use when the request names Langfuse or asks to diagnose recorded AI behavior.
metadata:
short-description: Langfuse observability via MCP
compatibility: claude-code, codex-cli
Langfuse
Use Langfuse evidence to move from a broad symptom to the relevant trace,
observation, session, prompt, or dataset. Start with the narrowest read-only
query that can locate the event, then inspect its concrete inputs, outputs,
timing, and errors.
Route the task
- For trace, observation, exception, latency, or session diagnosis, read
diagnostic and management workflows.
- For installation, credentials, tool groups, output defaults, connection
failures, or empty results, read setup.
- For exact parameters, filters, pagination, output modes, and response shapes,
read the tool reference.
A common investigation starts with fetch_traces(age=60) or
find_exceptions(age=1440, group_by="file"), then fetches the selected trace or
observation by ID. Use full_json_file only when the complete payload is needed;
exports can contain sensitive user data.
Evidence and mutation boundaries
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Treat model names, prompts, timestamps, and other values in historical traces
as recorded evidence. Do not rewrite or normalize old model identifiers to a
current name such as gpt-6-astra.
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Trace discovery and inspection are read-only. Prompt creation or relabeling,
dataset changes, annotation-queue changes, and deletions mutate Langfuse;
perform them only when the user requested that change.
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Prefer read-only server mode for diagnostic work. It disables prompt and
dataset write tools:
langfuse-mcp --read-only
# or LANGFUSE_MCP_READ_ONLY=true
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Never commit Langfuse credentials. Keep public key, secret key, and host in
the supported environment or MCP configuration described in the setup
reference. Rotate any exposed key.
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Preserve exact IDs and filters in findings so another reader can reproduce
the query. State when pagination, lookback limits, or compact output limits
the conclusion.