Reduce Slack Escalations to Engineering

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import time
import requests
from opentelemetry import trace, metrics
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics import MeterProvider
from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import ConsoleSpanExporter, SimpleSpanProcessor
from opentelemetry.sdk.metrics.export import ConsoleMetricExporter, PeriodicExportingMetricReader

# --- 1. OpenTelemetry Setup for Observability ---
# Configure exporters to print telemetry data to the console.
# In a production system, these would export to a backend like Prometheus or Jaeger.
trace.set_tracer_provider(TracerProvider())
tracer = trace.get_tracer(__name__)
span_processor = SimpleSpanProcessor(ConsoleSpanExporter())
trace.get_tracer_provider().add_span_processor(span_processor)

metric_reader = PeriodicExportingMetricReader(ConsoleMetricExporter())
metrics.set_meter_provider(MeterProvider(metric_readers=[metric_reader]))
meter = metrics.get_meter(__name__)

# Create custom OpenTelemetry metrics
agent_latency_histogram = meter.create_histogram("agent.latency", unit="ms", description="Agent response time")
agent_invocations_counter = meter.create_counter("agent.invocations", description="Number of times the agent is invoked")
hallucination_rate_gauge = meter.create_gauge("agent.hallucination_rate", unit="percentage", description="Rate of hallucinated responses")
pii_exposure_counter = meter.create_counter("agent.pii_exposure.count", description="Count of responses with PII exposure")

# --- 2. Define the Agent using NeMo Agent Toolkit concepts ---
# The NeMo Agent Toolkit orchestrates agents, tools, and workflows, often via configuration.
# This class simulates an agent that would be managed by the toolkit.
class MultimodalSupportAgent:
    def __init__(self, model_endpoint):
        self.model_endpoint = model_endpoint

    # The toolkit would route incoming requests to this method.
    def process_query(self, query, context_data):
        # Start an OpenTelemetry span to trace this specific execution.
        with tracer.start_as_current_span("agent.process_query") as span:
            start_time = time.time()
            span.set_attribute("query.text", query)
            span.set_attribute("context.data_types", [type(d).__name__ for d in context_data])

            # In a real scenario, this would involve complex logic and tool calls.
            print(f"\nAgent processing query: '{query}'...")
            time.sleep(0.5) # Simulate work (e.g., tool calls, model inference)
            agent_response = f"Generated answer for '{query}' based on provided context."
            
            latency = (time.time() - start_time) * 1000
            
            # Record metrics
            agent_latency_histogram.record(latency)
            agent_invocations_counter.add(1)
            span.set_attribute("agent.response", agent_response)
            span.set_attribute("agent.latency_ms", latency)
            
            return {"response": agent_response, "latency_ms": latency}

# --- 3. Define the Evaluation Logic using NeMo Evaluator ---
# This function simulates calling the NeMo Evaluator microservice API.
def run_nemo_evaluation(agent_response, ground_truth_data):
    with tracer.start_as_current_span("evaluator.run") as span:
        print("Submitting response to NeMo Evaluator...")
        # In a real system, you would make an HTTP request to the NeMo Evaluator service.
        # eval_endpoint = "http://nemo-evaluator-service/v1/evaluate"
        # payload = {"response": agent_response, "ground_truth": ground_truth_data}
        # response = requests.post(eval_endpoint, json=payload)
        # evaluation_results = response.json()
        
        # Mocking the evaluator's response for this example.
        time.sleep(0.2) # Simulate network and evaluation latency
        mock_results = {
            "answer_accuracy": 0.95,
            "hallucination_rate": 0.05,
            "pii_exposure": False,
            "toxicity_score": 0.01,
            "latency": 25.5
        }
        span.set_attribute("eval.results", str(mock_results))
        print(f"Evaluation complete: {mock_results}")
        return mock_results

# --- 4. The Main Agent Evaluation Loop ---
def agent_evaluation_loop(agent, query, context, ground_truth):
    with tracer.start_as_current_span("agent_evaluation_loop") as parent_span:
        # Step 1: Agent processes the query
        output = agent.process_query(query, context)

        # Step 2: Response is evaluated by NeMo Evaluator
        eval_metrics = run_nemo_evaluation(output["response"], ground_truth)

        # Step 3: Log evaluation results using OpenTelemetry metrics
        hallucination_rate_gauge.set(eval_metrics.get("hallucination_rate", 0.0))
        if eval_metrics.get("pii_exposure", False):
            pii_exposure_counter.add(1)
        
        # Add evaluation metrics as events to the parent span for rich, contextual traces.
        parent_span.add_event("EvaluationComplete", attributes=eval_metrics)

        # Step 4: (Optional) Trigger retraining or alerts based on metrics
        if eval_metrics["answer_accuracy"] < 0.8:
            print("[ALERT] Accuracy has dropped below threshold! Triggering retraining workflow.")
            parent_span.set_status(trace.Status(trace.StatusCode.ERROR, "Low Accuracy Detected"))

# --- Run the Example ---
if __name__ == "__main__":
    support_agent = MultimodalSupportAgent(model_endpoint="http://model-server/invoke")
    
    # Simulate an incoming user request with multimodal context
    user_query = "What is the status of my recent order?"
    context_documents = ["order_invoice.pdf", "customer_history.csv"]
    ground_truth = {"expected_answer": "Your order #1234 has shipped."}

    # Execute the loop
    agent_evaluation_loop(support_agent, user_query, context_documents, ground_truth)
    
    # In a real application, the metric reader would run in the background.
    # We call it explicitly here to see the output.
    metric_reader.collect()

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