SouthBase documentation
Install the agent, send OpenTelemetry traces, and read the Claude span specification.
In development
SouthBase is pre-launch. The ingest endpoint does not accept traffic yet, and these pages describe the shape of the integration rather than a shipping service. If you are a design partner, you have a different set of instructions.
The integration is OpenTelemetry — there is no proprietary SDK to learn. If your application already emits OTLP through an OpenInference instrumentor, pointing it at SouthBase is a configuration change.
Quickstart
Send your first trace. Two environment variables and one instrumentor call.
Install the agent
The Apache-2.0 OpenTelemetry Collector distribution that runs in your own infrastructure.
Redaction
Field-level masking at the edge, so sensitive payloads never leave your network.
Span specification
The OpenInference extension that carries Claude semantics — four token buckets, extended thinking, tool correlation.
Why the wire format is OpenTelemetry
Because it makes your data portable, and portability is the point. The same instrumentation that sends traces to SouthBase sends them to any other OTLP backend — so switching away costs you a configuration change, not a migration project. That is deliberate, and it is the one promise we can make structurally rather than contractually.