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ObservabilityLunary

Lunary

Open-source observability and prompt management for LLM apps.

Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Open core
Hosting
Hybrid
Platforms
WebAPI
Models
Model-agnostic
Verified
Jun 8, 2026

An open-source platform for monitoring, debugging, and improving LLM applications and chatbots. Lunary combines request tracing, cost and user analytics, versioned prompt management with A/B testing, plus human-in-the-loop review and automated scoring. Self-host the Apache-2.0 community edition or use the managed cloud, which starts free with a 10k-events monthly tier.

Capabilities 3

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • LLM observability (primary capability)
  • Prompt management (primary capability)
  • LLM evaluation (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Apache-2.0, self-hostable
  • Cost and user analytics built in
  • Human-in-the-loop review and scoring
  • Quick setup for RAG/chatbot apps
  • Evaluation features minimal/early-stage
  • Less mature than Langfuse
  • Smaller community
  • Narrower than full lifecycle platforms

Tags

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    Own your observability data
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    • tracing
    • evals
    • self-hosted
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    No SDK or code changes to integrate
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    Native LangChain/LangGraph tracing
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    Open-source LLM evaluation, tracing, and monitoring.

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    Self-host via Docker/Kubernetes
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    • observability
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