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Fixes #4536. Fixes #4643.

Problem

A streamed call ends its span only when the stream is read to the end. Two ways of stopping earlier leave the span open, so the call never reaches the backend:

Change

streaming.py only:

  • AnthropicStream.__next__ mirrors the async error path: on an exception it sets ERROR status and ends the span before re-raising, keeping the exception counter and the re-raise.
  • WrappedMessageStreamManager keeps the proxy it builds in __enter__ and finishes it in __exit__, after the SDK's own cleanup; WrappedAsyncMessageStreamManager does the same in __aenter__/__aexit__.
  • AnthropicStream and AnthropicAsyncStream finish the span in close() and in __del__. Every path goes through _instrumentation_completed, so a span ends exactly once.

Streams that are read to the end behave as before: same attributes, same OK status, same token usage. The span for a half-read stream is OK too — the call itself succeeded; only the record was missing.

Tests

New tests/test_stream_span_finalization.py with eight cases: {sync, async} × {early exit, stream error, completion}, plus close() and garbage collection for the sync client. Each asserts exactly one finished span, its status, and that the SDK still closed the HTTP response.

On main:

5 failed, 3 passed

The three that pass on main are the completed streams and the async error path, which already ended its span.

With this change:

8 passed

tests/test_semconv_span_attrs.py and this file together: 78 passed. tests/test_messages.py: 42 passed, 1 failed — test_async_anthropic_beta_message_stream_manager_legacy, which fails on main as well (its cassette was recorded against an older anthropic). ruff check . clean.

Prerequisite for #4703

#4703 turns the SDK's own span off for the Anthropic instrumentation. Until this lands, a sync stream that errors or exits early has no record at all, so #4703 should merge after this one.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Streaming traces now finish reliably when streams complete, encounter errors, are explicitly closed, or are left partially consumed.
    • Errors are reflected in trace status, and stream resources are closed on early exits and failures.
    • Completed streams continue to report token usage in trace data.
    • Tool-call events are still recorded when input is empty or cannot be parsed; arguments are reported as empty in those cases.

…c stream

AnthropicStream.__next__ bumped the exception counter and re-raised without
ending the span, and neither stream manager finished the span when the caller
left the block before the stream was exhausted, so those calls never reached
the backend.

Mirror the async error handling in the sync iterator, keep the proxy in the
manager and finish it from __exit__/__aexit__, and finish on close() and on
garbage collection.

Fixes traceloop#4536
Fixes traceloop#4643
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Anthropic stream wrappers and message-stream managers now finalize instrumentation on stream errors, closure, context-manager exit, and destruction. Event handling catches failures, and streaming tool-use events tolerate invalid or empty input JSON. Tests cover sync and async stream completion paths.

Changes: Anthropic stream finalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Finalize wrapped streams
packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-anthropic/opentelemetry/instrumentation/anthropic/streaming.py, packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-anthropic/opentelemetry/instrumentation/anthropic/event_emitter.py, packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-anthropic/tests/test_stream_span_finalization.py
Sync and async stream wrappers finalize instrumentation on errors, closure, context-manager exit, and destruction. Event handling catches failures, and tool-use events use empty arguments when input is falsey or JSON decoding fails. Tests cover completion, early exit, errors, explicit close, garbage collection, and partial tool input.
Finalize message-stream managers
packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-anthropic/opentelemetry/instrumentation/anthropic/streaming.py
Sync and async message-stream managers retain the proxy created during context entry and finalize it when the manager context exits.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Suggested reviewers: dinmukhamedm

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 063a2

Anthropic streaming spans now end reliably when a stream is used directly in a with block. The earlier concern about failed calls producing empty successful spans is addressed in the current code, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Title check Passed The title names the Anthropic instrumentation and the two behaviors the PR changes: ending streaming spans on early exit and on a failed sync stream. The changeset matches this. It adds close, context…
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The title names the Anthropic instrumentation and the two behaviors the PR changes: ending streaming spans on early exit and on a failed sync stream. The changeset matches this. It adds close, context-manager, and del finalization to the stream wrappers, and it adds error handling to the synchronous stream path. The title covers the main change, though it omits the partial tool-input handling and the proxy context-manager binding.

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[#4536] The earlier finalization paths remain in place at head 063a2a6: AnthropicStream.close() and AnthropicAsyncStream.close(), del on both proxies, and the manager exit/aexit hooks that finish the retained proxy. The new commit adds enter/aenter on both stream proxies. These return the proxy, not the wrapped stream. exit/aexit delegate to the SDK and then call _complete_instrumentation(). Without this change, with client.messages.create(stream=True) bypasses the proxy and its span is never finalized on exit. The test test_direct_stream_context_manager_keeps_the_proxy covers this path. [#4643] AnthropicStream.next still sets ERROR, ends the span, and re-raises. No change in this commit affects this path. Partial tool_use input on early exit is handled in event_emitter.py and in a try/except around _handle_streaming_response in both wrappers. Span finalization now runs even when event emission fails. Completion still goes through _instrumentation_completed, so a span ends once. Tests were reported, not run in this review. The verdict rests on the incremental diff and the reported results.

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The incremental diff from d3ae58d to 063a2a6 changes three files: streaming.py, event_emitter.py, and tests/test_stream_span_finalization.py. The streaming.py changes add context-manager methods that bind the proxy and contain failures during event handling. Both serve the early-exit and finalization requirements of #4536. The event_emitter.py change tolerates empty or partial tool_use input. The commit message ties it to early exit during a tool_use block, where json.loads on partial input would otherwise raise and block span finalization. This supports #4536. The new tests cover the same paths. The PR description still says 'streaming.py only' and lists 8 tests. It does not describe event_emitter.py or the 12 tests now in the file. This is a stale description, not an unrelated change. No unrelated refactoring or feature work appears in the incremental diff.

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Return an initially open response to test SDK cleanup.

In HTTPX 0.28.1, constructing Response(content=...) with a string eagerly reads and closes the response. The later is_closed assertions therefore pass even if SDK cleanup never runs. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Use stream=httpx.ByteStream(self._body.encode()) instead. Assert that the response remains open before early context exit, then assert that exit closes it. This makes the tests detect a cleanup regression.

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Update the response setup in the stream span finalization tests to use an HTTPX byte stream so the response remains open initially. Assert that response.is_closed is false before early context exit and true afterward, ensuring the assertions verify SDK cleanup.

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- Line 276: Update tool-input parsing in emit_streaming_response_events to
tolerate empty or incomplete JSON during early stream closure without
propagating JSONDecodeError. Ensure _complete_instrumentation finalizes the span
and sets _instrumentation_completed even if event emission fails, while
preserving any exception from the wrapped close(). Add synchronous and
asynchronous event-mode regression tests that close during a streaming tool_use
block.
- Line 280: Add __enter__() and __exit__() to AnthropicStream so direct with
statements keep the proxy as the bound stream and iteration continues through
its instrumented __next__(). Delegate context-manager operations to the wrapped
stream, return the proxy from __enter__(), and ensure __exit__() completes
instrumentation on block exit while preserving the wrapped stream’s exit result
and exception behavior.

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- Line 68: Update the response setup in the stream span finalization tests to
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response.is_closed is false before early context exit and true afterward,
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def __del__(self):
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self._complete_instrumentation()

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Keep direct stream context managers on the instrumented proxy.

For with client.messages.create(stream=True, ...) as stream:, AnthropicStream does not define __enter__() or __exit__(). It inherits them from ObjectProxy. The installed wrapt 1.17.3 forwards both calls to the wrapped stream. The bound value is therefore whatever the wrapped __enter__() returns, which can be the SDK stream itself. A for loop over that value bypasses AnthropicStream.__next__(). Exiting the block also bypasses AnthropicStream.close().

This causes two problems:

  • If iteration raises, the instrumented error branch in __next__() does not run. The new __del__() can then finalize the span with an empty OK status after the block unwinds.
  • If the proxy is kept in a variable, exiting the block does not finish the span. The span stays open until the proxy is garbage collected.

Define __enter__() and __exit__() on AnthropicStream. This keeps the proxy as the bound value and finishes the span on block exit:

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     def close(self):
         """Close the stream and finish the span, even if it was not read to the end."""
         try:
             return self.__wrapped__.close()
         finally:
             self._complete_instrumentation()
 
+    def __enter__(self):
+        self.__wrapped__.__enter__()
+        return self
+
+    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
+        try:
+            return self.__wrapped__.__exit__(exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb)
+        finally:
+            self._complete_instrumentation()
+
     def __del__(self):
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Add __enter__() and __exit__() to AnthropicStream so direct with statements keep the proxy as the bound stream and iteration continues through its instrumented __next__(). Delegate context-manager operations to the wrapped stream, return the proxy from __enter__(), and ensure __exit__() completes instrumentation on block exit while preserving the wrapped stream’s exit result and exception behavior.

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- Tolerate empty or partial tool_use input when emitting streaming events,
  so closing a stream while a tool block is still arriving does not raise
  out of close().
- Keep event emission from stopping span finalization: the span is ended
  even when emitting the response events fails.
- Define __enter__/__exit__ (and the async pair) on the stream proxies, so
  a `with client.messages.create(stream=True)` block binds the instrumented
  stream and finishes its span on exit instead of falling back to the
  wrapped stream.
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Both findings are addressed in 063a2a6.

Incomplete tool-call input during early finalization. emit_streaming_response_events now parses the accumulated input defensively: empty or partial JSON keeps the tool call and drops the payload ({}) instead of raising. _handle_streaming_response is also wrapped so a failure while emitting events cannot stop span finalization — span.end() and the completion flag still run.

Direct stream context managers on the instrumented proxy. AnthropicStream defines __enter__/__exit__ and AnthropicAsyncStream defines __aenter__/__aexit__: they call through to the wrapped stream, return self, and finish the span on exit. with client.messages.create(stream=True) as stream therefore iterates the instrumented proxy and ends its span when the block exits.

Tests. tests/test_stream_span_finalization.py gains four: sync and async early exit during a tool_use block (the fixture now instruments with use_attributes=False and a LoggerProvider, so event emission actually runs), a direct unit test for the partial-input path, and one asserting the with block binds the proxy. 12 passed locally.

One caveat, stated plainly: the two e2e early-exit tests pass even without the emitter change — that path does not reach the json.loads in this fixture — so the unit test is the behavioural guard for the partial-input fix. The with proxy test fails without the __enter__/__exit__ change, so that one does guard its fix.

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