Building with AI

Opik

Quick explainer2 min readIntermediate

Opik is an open-source platform for tracing, testing and monitoring apps built on language models, including RAG systems and AI agents.

In plain words

When an AI app gives a bad answer, you need to see what happened inside it. Opik logs each model call, tool call and agent step as a trace you can inspect. You can turn bad traces into test cases, score outputs with automated checks, including a model acting as judge, and watch quality, latency and cost once the app is live. It is Apache-2.0 licensed, and you can run the whole platform on your own servers.

A quick example

Imagine a support agent that sometimes gives wrong refund rules. In the trace you see it fetched an outdated document. You save that trace as a test case, fix the retrieval step, and rerun the test suite to confirm the answer is now right.

Where you'll meet it

  • Debugging multi-step agents and RAG pipelines.
  • Automated checks on LLM apps in CI on every commit.
  • Monitoring quality and cost of a live AI app.

Related

Sources

  1. Docscomet-ml/opik, Comet (GitHub) · read 29 Sept 2026
  2. DocsOpik documentation, Comet · read 29 Sept 2026

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