· 1 day ago· Dev.to
Unraveling LLM Cost Attribution through OTel Spans and Project Wiring
TL;DR. If your LLM bill is one line item on a cloud invoice, you cannot answer "which team spent that." We fixed this by tagging every gateway span with team.id, project.id, and feature.id, plus the OpenInference token-count attributes, shipping those spans through an OTel collector into Tempo, and
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