Crew Name in telemetry?

[agardnerIT]

Hi all,

I'm following the quickstart and sending telemetry (using OpenLLMetry) to a backend.

I want to know what crews I have active (ie. I want to see that I have 1 crew called latest_ai_development) but I can't find that in the incoming telemetry.

[Cfomodz]

The crew name is included in telemetry as the crew_name attribute. You need to explicitly set it:

from crewai import Crew

crew = Crew(
    name="latest_ai_development",  # Add this parameter
    agents=[...],
    tasks=[...]
)

[xXMrNidaXx]

Crew name should be in telemetry, but it might need explicit configuration.

Add crew name to telemetry:

from crewai import Crew
from opentelemetry import trace

crew = Crew(
    name="latest_ai_development",  # Explicit name
    agents=[...],
    tasks=[...],
)

# Add crew name as span attribute
tracer = trace.get_tracer(__name__)
with tracer.start_as_current_span("crew_run") as span:
    span.set_attribute("crew.name", crew.name or "unnamed")
    span.set_attribute("crew.id", str(crew.id))
    result = crew.kickoff()

OpenLLMetry instrumentation:

from openllmetry import OpenLLMetry

OpenLLMetry.instrument(
    additional_attributes={
        "crew.name": "latest_ai_development",
        "environment": "production"
    }
)

Check what CrewAI sends:

# Enable verbose to see telemetry
crew = Crew(
    name="latest_ai_development",
    verbose=True,
    telemetry=True,  # Ensure enabled
)

Query in your backend:

SELECT 
  span_attributes[crew.name] as crew_name,
  COUNT(*) as runs
FROM traces
GROUP BY crew_name

If crew name is missing:
Might be a bug or config issue. Check CrewAI version — newer versions have better telemetry.

We monitor CrewAI crews at Revolution AI — explicit span attributes ensure the data shows up correctly.