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Hey, found a couple of issues with how we handle streaming responses in the openai instrumentation.

Right now in chat_wrappers.py, if an exception happens during iteration, _ensure_cleanup forces the span status to OK and closes it before the actual exception gets recorded. This basically means we're swallowing stream failures and logging them as successful traces.

Also noticed that in completion_wrappers.py, the old generators don't use try/finally. So if a stream fails mid-way or breaks early, the span never ends and just leaks memory since it never reaches span.end().

I've fixed both of these by making sure exceptions are recorded on the span before cleanup, and wrapped the completion generators in try/except/finally blocks to guarantee the spans get closed. Tests are all passing. Let me know if you need any changes!

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved monitoring reliability for synchronous and asynchronous OpenAI streaming responses.
    • Streams are now cleaned up consistently when interrupted, partially consumed, or closed early.
    • Monitoring data continues to be recorded even if stream closure encounters an error.
    • Error statuses are preserved accurately, while normally incomplete streams no longer appear as successfully completed.
    • Streaming exceptions now include accurate error status details and exception information.

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OpenAI streaming wrappers now finalize synchronous and asynchronous responses during cleanup. Chat cleanup preserves recorded error status and leaves incomplete streams with StatusCode.UNSET. Completion cleanup records standalone close failures. Tests cover incomplete streams and iterator errors.

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OpenAI streaming cleanup and finalization

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Chat streaming cleanup and status handling
packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/.../shared/chat_wrappers.py, packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/tests/traces/test_chat.py
Chat cleanup runs during asynchronous context exit and after iteration errors. _ensure_cleanup ends spans without setting OK. Tests validate UNSET for incomplete streams and ERROR with an exception event for iterator failures.
Completion streaming finalization
packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/.../shared/completion_wrappers.py
Synchronous and asynchronous builders record standalone response-close failures and preserve separate response-processing failures while guaranteeing span termination.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to efafe

Some streaming paths can still leave spans open or record incomplete streams as successful, reducing trace accuracy and potentially retaining resources; merge should wait until these paths are corrected or explicitly accepted.

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packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/opentelemetry/instrumentation/openai/shared/chat_wrappers.py (1)

841-857: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not mark incomplete streams as successful.

__exit__ and __del__ call _ensure_cleanup() with the default value. Lines 856-857 then set StatusCode.OK for a partially consumed stream. __aexit__ does not invoke _ensure_cleanup(), so an early async with exit can leave the span open.

Set StatusCode.OK only after StopIteration or StopAsyncIteration. Run async cleanup in __aexit__ through a finally block. Remove the OK-status assignment from generic cleanup.

Proposed direction
 async def __aexit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
-    await self.__wrapped__.__aexit__(exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb)
+    try:
+        return await self.__wrapped__.__aexit__(exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb)
+    finally:
+        self._ensure_cleanup()

- def _ensure_cleanup(self, error=False):
+ def _ensure_cleanup(self):
     ...
-    if not error:
-        self._span.set_status(Status(StatusCode.OK))
     self._span.end()
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In
`@packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/opentelemetry/instrumentation/openai/shared/chat_wrappers.py`
around lines 841 - 857, Update _ensure_cleanup, __exit__, __del__, and __aexit__
so generic or early stream cleanup never marks spans successful: remove the
StatusCode.OK assignment from _ensure_cleanup and mark success only when
StopIteration or StopAsyncIteration confirms normal completion. Ensure __aexit__
always performs cleanup via a finally block, including when async iteration
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In
`@packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/opentelemetry/instrumentation/openai/shared/completion_wrappers.py`:
- Around line 223-233: Update the synchronous and asynchronous completion
wrapper finalizers to close the OpenAI response with response.close() and await
response.close(), respectively; do not use aclose() for AsyncStream. Nest the
cleanup so span.end() executes even if response closing raises, while preserving
the existing response-attribute, token-usage, and event handling.

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`@packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/opentelemetry/instrumentation/openai/shared/chat_wrappers.py`:
- Around line 841-857: Update _ensure_cleanup, __exit__, __del__, and __aexit__
so generic or early stream cleanup never marks spans successful: remove the
StatusCode.OK assignment from _ensure_cleanup and mark success only when
StopIteration or StopAsyncIteration confirms normal completion. Ensure __aexit__
always performs cleanup via a finally block, including when async iteration
exits early.
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packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/tests/traces/test_chat.py (1)

1748-1749: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test the instrumentation error path.

This test raises Exception("Simulated interruption") in caller code after ChatStream.__next__ returns a chunk. It does not execute the changed branch that records ERROR_TYPE, calls record_exception, and sets StatusCode.ERROR.

Add a test whose wrapped iterator raises, then assert that the span records the exception and ends with StatusCode.ERROR.

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In
`@packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/opentelemetry/instrumentation/openai/shared/completion_wrappers.py`:
- Around line 224-237: Update the synchronous completion finalizer at
packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/opentelemetry/instrumentation/openai/shared/completion_wrappers.py:224-237
to isolate response cleanup and attribute/event processing failures, preserve
the original streaming exception, record cleanup failures when appropriate, and
guarantee span.end() through a nested try/finally. Apply the same exception-safe
structure to the asynchronous finalizer at
packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai/opentelemetry/instrumentation/openai/shared/completion_wrappers.py:256-269.
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completion_wrappers.py at lines 227-230 and the asynchronous handler at lines
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