Langfuse Incident Runbook

set -euo pipefail
echo "=== Langfuse Incident Triage ==="
echo "Time: $(date -u)"

# 1. Check Langfuse cloud status
echo -n "Status page: "
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://status.langfuse.com || echo "UNREACHABLE"
echo ""

# 2. Test API connectivity
HOST="${LANGFUSE_BASE_URL:-${LANGFUSE_HOST:-https://cloud.langfuse.com}}"
echo -n "API health: "
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} (%{time_total}s)" "$HOST/api/public/health" || echo "FAILED"
echo ""

# 3. Test auth
if [ -n "${LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY:-}" ] && [ -n "${LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY:-}" ]; then
  AUTH=$(echo -n "$LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY:$LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY" | base64)
  echo -n "Auth test: "
  curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" \
    -H "Authorization: Basic $AUTH" "$HOST/api/public/traces?limit=1" || echo "FAILED"
  echo ""
fi

# 4. Check app error logs
echo ""
echo "--- Recent errors ---"
grep -i "langfuse\|trace.*error\|flush.*fail" /var/log/app/*.log 2>/dev/null | tail -10 || echo "No log files found"

// Emergency disable via environment variable
// Set LANGFUSE_ENABLED=false in your deployment

// In your tracing initialization:
if (process.env.LANGFUSE_ENABLED === "false") {
  console.warn("Langfuse tracing DISABLED (emergency fallback)");
  // Don't initialize SDK -- all observe/startActiveObservation calls
  // will still work but produce no-op spans
}

const langfuse = new Langfuse({
  enabled: process.env.LANGFUSE_ENABLED !== "false",
});

// 1. Verify SDK is initialized
console.log("Langfuse configured:", !!process.env.LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY);

// 2. Check flush is happening
// v4+: Verify NodeSDK is started and shutdown is registered
// v3: Verify flushAsync() or shutdownAsync() is called

// 3. Temporarily set aggressive flush for debugging
const processor = new LangfuseSpanProcessor({
  exportIntervalMillis: 1000,
  maxExportBatchSize: 1,
});

// Increase batching to reduce API calls
const processor = new LangfuseSpanProcessor({
  exportIntervalMillis: 30000, // 30s flush
  maxExportBatchSize: 200,     // Large batches
});

// Or temporarily enable sampling
const EMERGENCY_SAMPLE_RATE = 0.1; // Only trace 10%

set -euo pipefail
# Check container status
docker ps -a | grep langfuse

# Check logs
docker logs langfuse-langfuse-1 --tail 50

# Check database
docker exec langfuse-postgres-1 pg_isready -U langfuse

# Restart if needed
docker compose restart langfuse

set -euo pipefail
# Verify traces are flowing again
echo "=== Post-Incident Check ==="

HOST="${LANGFUSE_BASE_URL:-https://cloud.langfuse.com}"
AUTH=$(echo -n "$LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY:$LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY" | base64)

# Check recent trace count
TRACE_COUNT=$(curl -s \
  -H "Authorization: Basic $AUTH" \
  "$HOST/api/public/traces?limit=5" | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(len(json.load(sys.stdin).get('data',[])))" 2>/dev/null || echo "ERROR")

echo "Recent traces: $TRACE_COUNT"

if [ "$TRACE_COUNT" = "0" ] || [ "$TRACE_COUNT" = "ERROR" ]; then
  echo "WARNING: Traces may not be flowing yet"
else
  echo "OK: Traces are appearing"
fi