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Weights & Biases Weave is an observability platform for tracking and evaluating LLM applications.

Step 1: Get your W&B API key

In W&B, go to your User Settings and copy your API key.

Step 2: Enable Broadcast in OpenRouter

Go to Settings > Observability and toggle Enable Broadcast.
Enable Broadcast

Step 3: Configure W&B Weave

Click the edit icon next to W&B Weave and enter:
  • Api Key: Your W&B API key
  • Entity: Your W&B username or team name
  • Project: The project name where traces will be logged
  • Base Url (optional): Default is https://trace.wandb.ai
W&B Weave Configuration

Step 4: Test and save

Click Test Connection to verify the setup. The configuration only saves if the test passes.
W&B Weave Configured

Step 5: Send a test trace

Make an API request through OpenRouter and view the trace in W&B Weave.
W&B Weave Trace

Custom Metadata

W&B Weave supports custom attributes and structured inputs for organizing and analyzing your LLM calls.

Supported Metadata Keys

Example

Attributes and Inputs

Weave organizes trace data into:
  • Attributes: Metadata about the call (user IDs, organization IDs, trace identifiers, custom metadata)
  • Inputs: The actual request data including messages, model parameters (temperature, max_tokens, etc.)
  • Summary: Token usage, costs, and timing metrics

Additional Context

  • The user field maps to user_id in attributes
  • The session_id field maps to session_id in attributes
  • Custom metadata keys from trace are merged into the call’s attributes
  • Model parameters (temperature, max_tokens, top_p) are included in inputs for easy filtering

Privacy Mode

When Privacy Mode is enabled for this destination, prompt and completion content is excluded from traces. All other trace data (token usage, costs, timing, model information, and custom metadata) is still sent normally. See Privacy Mode for details.