Phoenix
Arize-ai/phoenix
Open-source AI observability and evals from Arize.
Phoenix traces LLM/agent runs, evaluates them (LLM-as-judge, retrieval metrics) and surfaces regressions — Arize's open-source core for debugging agents in production.
Behind the project
In the news
ClickHouse acquires Langfuse
ClickHouse acquires the open-source LLM observability platform Langfuse as part of its $400M Series D at a $15B valuation — the first big consolidation in agent observability. The open-source core remains maintained; the deal signals that agent tracing is becoming a database-scale problem.
HarnessTax: harness choice swings agent cost more than model choice
Arena.ai's HarnessTax study tests 21 model–harness combinations across Claude Code, Codex CLI and Pi, finding harness choice can significantly change cost even at similar task success rates. Weeks earlier, SWE-bench Pro analysis showed swapping harnesses moved pass@1 more than model upgrades (23%→52% on GLM-5.2) — and that harness rankings barely transfer across models.
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