Sentry has built-in AI tracing for Python and JavaScript. PHP developers get nothing. Here’s how to build it yourself.

Josh Hornby

Sentry's LLM monitoring feature has built-in support for Python and JavaScript but not PHP. This guide demonstrates how to manually implement AI tracing for OpenAI calls in Laravel by wrapping API requests with Sentry spans using documented `gen_ai.*` semantic conventions. The implementation tracks token usage, model versions, latency, and finish reasons, enabling cost tracking and performance analysis. The pattern includes graceful degradation for contexts without active transactions, proper span hierarchy management, and extends to other LLM providers.

Sentry AI Tracing for OpenAI in Laravel