Define and log attributes

Use attributes to add meta data to your traces and evaluations.

Attributes in Weave allow you to attach custom metadata to your traces and evaluations. This metadata can include information like environment names, model versions, experiment IDs, user IDs, or other contextual information to help you organize, filter, and analyze your Weave data.

Weave provides two ways to add attributes:

• Per-call attributes: Use the weave.attributes() to add metadata to specific operations or code blocks
• Global attributes: Use the global_attributes field to set attributes at initialization that apply to all traces and evaluations in your project

You can view all attributes logged during traces and evaluation in the UI. You can then use them to filter and group data.

call.attributes cannot be modified once the call starts. Use this context manager to set any metadata before invoking the op.

Per-call attributes

The weave.attributes() context manager allows you to add metadata to specific traced operations. This allows you to tag particular function calls or evaluation runs with contextual information.

Python

import weave

weave.init("attribute-check")

@weave.op
def my_function(name: str):
    return f"Hello, {name}!"

# Add attributes to a specific call
with weave.attributes({'env': 'production', 'user_id': '12345'}):
    result = my_function("World")

TypeScript

import {init, op, withAttributes} from 'weave';

async function main() {
  await init('your-team/attribute-example');

  const myFunction = op(async function myFunction(name: string) {
    return `Hello, ${name}!`;
  });

  // Add attributes to a specific call
  const result = await withAttributes(
    {env: 'production', user_id: '12345'},
    async () => myFunction('World')
  );

  console.log('Result:', result);
}

main().catch(console.error);

The function attaches the attributes to all traced operations within the context manager block (Python) or callback function (TypeScript).

You can also nest weave.attributes() contexts. Inner contexts override outer contexts for the same keys:

Python

@weave.op
def process_data(data: str):
    return data.upper()

# Outer context
with weave.attributes({
    "env": "production",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "region": "us-west-2"
}):
    process_data("hello")  # Has all three attributes
    
    # Inner context overrides 'version'
    with weave.attributes({
        "version": "1.1.0",
        "experiment": "exp-456"
    }):
        process_data("world")  # Has env='production', version='1.1.0', region='us-west-2', experiment='exp-456'

TypeScript

import {init, op, withAttributes} from 'weave';

async function main() {
  await init('your-team/attribute-example');

  const processData = op(async function processData(data: string) {
    return data.toUpperCase();
  });
  
  // Outer context
  await withAttributes(
    {
      env: 'production',
      version: '1.0.0',
      region: 'us-west-2'
    },
    async () => {
      await processData('hello');  // Has all three attributes
      
      // Inner context overrides 'version'
      await withAttributes(
        {
          version: '1.1.0',
          experiment: 'exp-456'
        },
        async () => {
          await processData('world');  // Has env='production', version='1.1.0', region='us-west-2', experiment='exp-456'
        }
      );
    }
  );
}

main().catch(console.error);

Global attributes

When you set global attributes during Weave initialization, they automatically apply to all traces and evaluations in your project. This is useful for propagating project-wide metadata like environment, deployment version, or team information.

Python

import weave

weave.init(
    "my-project",
    global_attributes={
        "env": "production",
        "app_version": "2.1.0",
        "region": "us-west-2",
        "team": "ml-platform"
    }
)

# The global_attributes dictionary now applies these attributes to all subsequent operations
@weave.op
def my_function():
    return "Hello"

my_function()  # Automatically has all global attributes

# Evaluations also get global attributes
evaluation = weave.Evaluation(dataset=examples, scorers=[scorer])
asyncio.run(evaluation.evaluate(model))  # Has all global attributes

TypeScript

import {init, op, withAttributes} from 'weave';

async function main() {
    await init('your-team/attribute-example', {
        globalAttributes: {
            env: 'production',
            app_version: '2.1.0',
            region: 'us-west-2',
            team: 'ml-platform'
        }
    });
    
    // The globalAttributes object now applies these attributes to all subsequent operations
    const myFunction = op(async function myFunction() {
        return 'Hello';
    });
    
    const result = await myFunction();  // Automatically has all global attributes
    console.log('Result:', result);
}
main().catch(console.error);

Combine global and per-call attributes

You can use global attributes and per-call attributes together. Per-call attributes with the same key override global attributes:

Python

import weave

# Set global attributes
weave.init(
    "my-project",
    global_attributes={
        "env": "production",
        "app_version": "2.1.0"
    }
)

@weave.op
def process(data: str):
    return data

# This call has: env='production', app_version='2.1.0'
process("test1")

# This call has: env='staging', app_version='2.1.0', experiment='A'
with weave.attributes({'env': 'staging', 'experiment': 'A'}):
    process("test2")

TypeScript

import {init, op, withAttributes} from 'weave';

async function main() {
    // Set global attributes
    await init('your-team/attribute-example', {
    globalAttributes: {
        env: 'production',
        app_version: '2.1.0'
    }
    });

    const process = op(async function process(data: string) {
    return data;
    });

    // This call has: env='production', app_version='2.1.0'
    await process('test1');

    // This call has: env='staging', app_version='2.1.0', experiment='A'
    await withAttributes(
    {env: 'staging', experiment: 'A'},
    async () => process('test2')
    );
}
main().catch(console.error);