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# Vertex AI

> Connect your Google Vertex AI-powered application to Latitude Telemetry for feature-level observability and evaluations.

## Overview

This guide shows you how to integrate **Latitude Telemetry** into an existing application that uses the official **Google Vertex AI SDK**.

After completing these steps:

* Every Google Vertex AI call (e.g. `generateContent`) can be captured as a log in Latitude.
* Logs are grouped under a **prompt**, identified by a `path`, inside a Latitude **project**.
* You can inspect inputs/outputs, measure latency, and debug Google Vertex AI-powered features from the Latitude dashboard.

<Check>
  You'll keep calling Google Vertex AI exactly as you do today — Telemetry
  simply observes and enriches those calls.
</Check>

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## Requirements

Before you start, make sure you have:

* A **Latitude account** and **API key**
* A **Latitude project ID**
* A Node.js or Python-based project that uses the **Google Vertex AI SDK**

That's it — prompts do **not** need to be created ahead of time.

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## Steps

<Steps>
  <Step title="Install requirements">
    Add the Latitude Telemetry package to your project:

    <Tabs>
      <Tab title="TypeScript">
        <CodeGroup>
          ```bash npm theme={null}
          npm add @latitude-data/telemetry
          ```

          ```bash pnpm theme={null}
          pnpm add @latitude-data/telemetry
          ```

          ```bash yarn theme={null}
          yarn add @latitude-data/telemetry
          ```

          ```bash bun theme={null}
          bun add @latitude-data/telemetry
          ```
        </CodeGroup>
      </Tab>

      <Tab title="Python">
        <CodeGroup>
          ```bash pip theme={null}
          pip install latitude-telemetry
          ```

          ```bash uv theme={null}
          uv add latitude-telemetry
          ```

          ```bash poetry theme={null}
          poetry add latitude-telemetry
          ```
        </CodeGroup>
      </Tab>
    </Tabs>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Wrap your Google Vertex AI-powered feature">
    Initialize Latitude Telemetry and wrap the code that calls Google Vertex AI using <code>telemetry.capture</code>.

    <Tabs>
      <Tab title="TypeScript">
        ```ts theme={null}
        import { LatitudeTelemetry } from '@latitude-data/telemetry'
        import * as VertexAI from '@google-cloud/vertexai'

        const telemetry = new LatitudeTelemetry(
          process.env.LATITUDE_API_KEY,
          { instrumentations: { vertexai: VertexAI } }
        )

        async function generateSupportReply(input: string) {
          return telemetry.capture(
            {
              projectId: 123, // The ID of your project in Latitude
              path: 'generate-support-reply', // Add a path to identify this prompt in Latitude
            },
            async () => {
              const client = new VertexAI.VertexAI({
                project: 'your-gcp-project',
                location: 'us-central1',
              })
              const model = client.getGenerativeModel({ model: 'gemini-1.5-pro' })
              const result = await model.generateContent(input)
              return result.response
            }
          )
        }
        ```
      </Tab>

      <Tab title="Python">
        You can use the `capture` method as a decorator (recommended) or as a context manager:

        ```python Using decorator (recommended) theme={null}
        import os
        import vertexai
        from vertexai.generative_models import GenerativeModel
        from latitude_telemetry import Telemetry, Instrumentors, TelemetryOptions

        telemetry = Telemetry(
            os.environ["LATITUDE_API_KEY"],
            TelemetryOptions(instrumentors=[Instrumentors.VertexAI]),
        )

        @telemetry.capture(
            project_id=123,  # The ID of your project in Latitude
            path="generate-support-reply",  # Add a path to identify this prompt in Latitude
        )
        def generate_support_reply(input: str) -> str:
            vertexai.init(project="your-gcp-project", location="us-central1")
            model = GenerativeModel("gemini-1.5-pro")
            response = model.generate_content(input)
            return response.text
        ```

        ```python Using context manager theme={null}
        import os
        import vertexai
        from vertexai.generative_models import GenerativeModel
        from latitude_telemetry import Telemetry, Instrumentors, TelemetryOptions

        telemetry = Telemetry(
            os.environ["LATITUDE_API_KEY"],
            TelemetryOptions(instrumentors=[Instrumentors.VertexAI]),
        )

        def generate_support_reply(input: str) -> str:
            with telemetry.capture(
                project_id=123,  # The ID of your project in Latitude
                path="generate-support-reply",  # Add a path to identify this prompt in Latitude
            ):
                vertexai.init(project="your-gcp-project", location="us-central1")
                model = GenerativeModel("gemini-1.5-pro")
                response = model.generate_content(input)
                return response.text
        ```
      </Tab>
    </Tabs>

    <Info>
      The `path`:

      * Identifies the prompt in Latitude
      * Can be new or existing
      * Should not contain spaces or special characters (use letters, numbers, `- _ / .`)
    </Info>
  </Step>
</Steps>

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## Seeing your logs in Latitude

Once your feature is wrapped, logs will appear automatically.

1. Open the **prompt** in your Latitude dashboard (identified by `path`)
2. Go to the **Traces** section
3. Each execution will show:
   * Input and output messages
   * Model and token usage
   * Latency and errors
   * One trace per feature invocation

Each Google Vertex AI call appears as a child span under the captured prompt execution, giving you a full, end-to-end view of what happened.

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## That's it

No changes to your Google Vertex AI calls, no special return values, and no extra plumbing — just wrap the feature you want to observe.