{"categories":[{"label":"Monitoring","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/system-monitoring"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Adds distributed tracing to Pinecone vector database client calls using OpenTelemetry, capturing request and response telemetry for observability.","skillfed_tags":["observability","vector-database","tracing"],"use_cases":["Debug slow or failing Pinecone queries by viewing full request/response traces in your observability backend.","Correlate Pinecone operations with other application traces to understand end-to-end latency in RAG or vector search workflows.","Monitor Pinecone usage patterns and performance metrics across your production deployments.","Troubleshoot integration issues between your application and Pinecone by inspecting emitted span data."],"what_it_does":"This package is an OpenTelemetry instrumentation plugin that automatically captures traces from calls made to Pinecone, the vector database client library. It integrates with the OpenTelemetry ecosystem to emit structured telemetry data about Pinecone operations, enabling distributed tracing and observability across your application.\n\nYou install it alongside your OpenTelemetry setup, call `PineconeInstrumentor().instrument()` once at startup, and from that point forward all Pinecone client calls are automatically traced. The traces flow into whatever OpenTelemetry exporter you have configured (e.g., Jaeger, Datadog, or a collector). It depends on the core OpenTelemetry API and instrumentation framework, plus semantic convention packages for AI operations.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you are already using OpenTelemetry and Pinecone together. The package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, installs with low friction, and solves the specific problem of making Pinecone calls visible within your observability stack. Skip it if you are not using OpenTelemetry or do not need tracing for Pinecone operations."},"id":"opentelemetry-instrumentation-pinecone","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pinecone","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pinecone.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/opentelemetry-instrumentation-pinecone/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-08-10","license_spdx":"Apache-2.0","license_treatment":"permissive","name":"opentelemetry-instrumentation-pinecone","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"OpenTelemetry Pinecone instrumentation"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":7522100,"position":1727,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.62.3"}