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Callers use Responses raw responses to inspect headers before consuming a stream. Before this change, explicit parse types returned an untraced stream, while reasoning=None raised AttributeError after the HTTP request had succeeded. Sync and async callers can now keep the raw response and requested stream type while receiving one completed response span.

Raw stream parsing now uses the OpenAI SDK post-parser hook. The hook wraps the stream produced for the caller's exact parse type, keeps the request's trace context, and closes the span if proxy construction fails.

Fixes #4504

Testing Done

The reproducer uses OpenAI 1.99.7 and the real instrumentation against a local HTTP transport serving the Responses SSE payload. I ran the same source on the parent commit and the fixed head.

Before

$ git worktree add --detach ../openllmetry-before f61c8c74395ab8720481c039fdfe381726e46416
$ cd ../openllmetry-before/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai
$ uv run --frozen --group test python /tmp/raw_stream_e2e.py
sync.reasoning_none=AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'
sync.reasoning_none.spans=0
sync.custom_isinstance=True
sync.custom_events=2
sync.custom.spans=0
async.reasoning_none=AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'
async.reasoning_none.spans=0
async.custom_isinstance=True
async.custom_events=2
async.custom.spans=0

After

$ git worktree add --detach ../openllmetry-after 1e6f39ec4eb6fd2e7a1470dde4b4d3468e8068d2
$ cd ../openllmetry-after/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai
$ uv run --frozen --group test python /tmp/raw_stream_e2e.py
sync.reasoning_none=ok events=2
sync.reasoning_none.spans=1
sync.reasoning_none.response_id=resp_123
sync.custom_isinstance=True
sync.custom_events=2
sync.custom.spans=1
sync.custom.response_id=resp_123
async.reasoning_none=ok events=2
async.reasoning_none.spans=1
async.reasoning_none.response_id=resp_123
async.custom_isinstance=True
async.custom_events=2
async.custom.spans=1
async.custom.response_id=resp_123

Reproducer source: raw_stream_e2e.py

import asyncio

import httpx
from openai import AsyncOpenAI, AsyncStream, OpenAI, Stream
from openai.types.responses import ResponseStreamEvent
from opentelemetry.instrumentation.openai import OpenAIInstrumentor
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import SimpleSpanProcessor
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export.in_memory_span_exporter import (
    InMemorySpanExporter,
)

BODY = (
    b"event: response.created\n"
    b'data: {"type":"response.created","response":{"id":"resp_123","object":"response",'
    b'"created_at":0,"status":"in_progress","model":"gpt-4.1-nano","output":[]}}\n\n'
    b"event: response.completed\n"
    b'data: {"type":"response.completed","response":{"id":"resp_123","object":"response",'
    b'"created_at":0,"status":"completed","model":"gpt-4.1-nano","output":[],'
    b'"usage":{"input_tokens":1,"output_tokens":1,"total_tokens":2}}}\n\n'
)


class CustomStream(Stream[ResponseStreamEvent]):
    pass


class CustomAsyncStream(AsyncStream[ResponseStreamEvent]):
    pass


def handler(request: httpx.Request) -> httpx.Response:
    return httpx.Response(
        200,
        headers={
            "content-type": "text/event-stream",
            "x-ms-served-model": "gpt-4.1-nano",
        },
        content=BODY,
    )


def sync_client() -> OpenAI:
    return OpenAI(
        api_key="test-key",
        http_client=httpx.Client(transport=httpx.MockTransport(handler)),
    )


def print_spans(kind: str, exporter: InMemorySpanExporter) -> None:
    spans = exporter.get_finished_spans()
    print(f"{kind}.spans={len(spans)}")
    if spans:
        print(f"{kind}.response_id={spans[0].attributes['gen_ai.response.id']}")


def run_sync(exporter: InMemorySpanExporter) -> None:
    try:
        raw = sync_client().responses.with_raw_response.create(
            model="gpt-4.1-nano",
            input="hi",
            reasoning=None,
            stream=True,
        )
        events = list(raw.parse())
        print(f"sync.reasoning_none=ok events={len(events)}")
    except Exception as error:
        print(f"sync.reasoning_none={type(error).__name__}: {error}")
    print_spans("sync.reasoning_none", exporter)

    exporter.clear()
    raw = sync_client().responses.with_raw_response.create(
        model="gpt-4.1-nano",
        input="hi",
        stream=True,
    )
    stream = raw.parse(to=CustomStream)
    events = list(stream)
    print(f"sync.custom_isinstance={isinstance(stream, CustomStream)}")
    print(f"sync.custom_events={len(events)}")
    print_spans("sync.custom", exporter)


def async_client() -> AsyncOpenAI:
    return AsyncOpenAI(
        api_key="test-key",
        http_client=httpx.AsyncClient(transport=httpx.MockTransport(handler)),
    )


async def run_async(exporter: InMemorySpanExporter) -> None:
    try:
        client = async_client()
        raw = await client.responses.with_raw_response.create(
            model="gpt-4.1-nano",
            input="hi",
            reasoning=None,
            stream=True,
        )
        events = [event async for event in raw.parse()]
        print(f"async.reasoning_none=ok events={len(events)}")
        await client.close()
    except Exception as error:
        print(f"async.reasoning_none={type(error).__name__}: {error}")
    print_spans("async.reasoning_none", exporter)

    exporter.clear()
    client = async_client()
    raw = await client.responses.with_raw_response.create(
        model="gpt-4.1-nano",
        input="hi",
        stream=True,
    )
    stream = raw.parse(to=CustomAsyncStream)
    events = [event async for event in stream]
    print(f"async.custom_isinstance={isinstance(stream, CustomAsyncStream)}")
    print(f"async.custom_events={len(events)}")
    print_spans("async.custom", exporter)
    await client.close()


async def main() -> None:
    exporter = InMemorySpanExporter()
    provider = TracerProvider()
    provider.add_span_processor(SimpleSpanProcessor(exporter))
    instrumentor = OpenAIInstrumentor()
    instrumentor.instrument(tracer_provider=provider)
    run_sync(exporter)
    exporter.clear()
    await run_async(exporter)
    instrumentor.uninstrument()


asyncio.run(main())

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved tracing for synchronous and asynchronous OpenAI streaming responses, including raw-response streams and custom parsing.
  • Streamed responses now retain accessible headers and report response details, including response IDs, models, and usage, after completion.
  • Errors during stream setup or iteration are propagated while ensuring associated traces are properly finished.

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Walkthrough

Sync and async raw-response parsing now wraps streaming results in ResponseStream. Consuming a stream emits a response span with response and usage attributes. Raw-response headers and stream identity remain accessible.

Changes: Raw-response stream tracing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared stream tracing packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/opentelemetry/instrumentation/openai/v1/responses_wrappers.py	A shared helper creates a ResponseStream with a client span and request attributes. The sync and async wrappers use it for direct stream results. ResponseStream processes yielded chunks, handles iteration errors, and processes the completed response after normal exhaustion.
Raw-response parser wrapping packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/opentelemetry/instrumentation/openai/v1/responses_wrappers.py, packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/tests/traces/test_responses.py	The sync and async wrappers hook streaming raw responses so parsing wraps stream results and leaves other parsed values unchanged. Sentinel sanitization converts an explicitly supplied reasoning=None to {}. Tests check stream identity, headers, response span attributes, and span completion when stream construction raises.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant RawResponse
  participant ParserHook
  participant ResponseStream
  Caller->>RawResponse: Call parse()
  RawResponse->>ParserHook: Return parsed stream
  ParserHook->>ResponseStream: Wrap stream with span
  ResponseStream-->>Caller: Yield stream events

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Possibly related PRs

• traceloop/openllmetry#4548: Adds request attributes through the shared helper used to create spans for raw-response streams.

Suggested reviewers: markuspalme

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 0a7bf

The identified raw-response streaming risks are addressed. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 4024d

Previously untraced raw streams now participate in response tracing and configured content capture. Existing capture controls remain, but custom iterator behavior is not fully preserved, and interruption handling is not established for every supported usage.

Retained concerns

• Low · architecture · observed: Raw custom stream results now use ResponseStream.iter and aiter, which return the proxy rather than invoking the custom stream's iterator-entry methods. Custom filtering or transformation implemented there would be bypassed, although custom next and anext methods remain delegated. This behavior predates the PR for direct streams but is newly reachable through raw parsing. No downstream security filter relying on those methods was established.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated exposure expansion is previously untraced raw-stream request and response data entering spans in an instrumented process. Remote response content influences telemetry, but the inspected path decorates SDK results rather than granting additional request or tool authority. Production exporter destinations, tenant isolation, and independently affected deployments are not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Message-content emission uses the unchanged should_send_prompts control. TRACELOOP_TRACE_CONTENT defaults to true; content is disabled only when that setting is false-like and the current context does not contain a true-like enable override. The captured request context establishes span parentage, while content policy is evaluated in the ambient context at emission time.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Ordinary setup failures end the new span before propagating. Exhaustion and iteration exceptions finish the proxy's span, and explicit close or context exit delegates resource cleanup to the wrapped stream. Raw streams now inherit the pre-existing limitations: asynchronous iteration catches Exception rather than cancellation outside that hierarchy, and destructor cleanup does not explicitly close the wrapped stream. Construction-failure cleanup also ends the span without explicitly closing the parsed stream; effective SDK resource cleanup remains unverified.

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Linked Issues check		Issue #4504 requires traced sync and async responses.with_raw_response.create(stream=True) calls that preserve raw response access. The parser hook wraps the parsed stream with the request context a…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes support issue #4504. The shared stream-construction helper covers sync and async tracing. Sentinel normalization fixes the reported reasoning=None failure. The added tests verify these b…

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Issue #4504 requires traced sync and async responses.with_raw_response.create(stream=True) calls that preserve raw response access. The parser hook wraps the parsed stream with the request context and request attributes. The tests verify headers before parsing, repeated-parse identity, default and custom stream types, one openai.response span, response and usage attributes, and sync and async consumption. The tests also cover explicit reasoning=None and span closure when proxy construction fails.

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