This month, we’re excited to unveil our brand new UI! We’ve defined an improved design system, including updated and thoughtfully-crafted styles and components to give the product a fresh, engaging look and feel. The new design system supports both light and dark modes, so be sure to check out both and find the one that suits you.

With the new look, we’ve made a number of other experience improvements, including adding priority levels for tests, improving the navigation and information hierarchy, and adding more data visualizations throughout the product.

We can’t wait for you to try it out and hear your thoughts.

We’re introducing an exciting new feature to our observability platform: automatic thresholds for tests and anomaly detection.

Openlayer now supports automatic thresholds for tests, which are data-driven and adapt to your AI system over time. Whether you're monitoring cost, data quality, or GPT eval scores, we'll suggest thresholds based on historical patterns to take the guesswork out of defining acceptable criteria for your system.

We’ve also introduced anomaly detection to flag test results that deviate from the norm. This means you’ll get alerted when something’s off based on the automatic thresholds that we predict.

Both features are designed to take the pain out of manual setup and make your evaluations more proactive and intelligent. To get started, just create a new test in the Openlayer app and choose automatic when setting the threshold.

We’ve shipped new ways to manage secrets and API keys across your Openlayer projects, making it easier to scale and stay secure.

Now, you can add project-level secrets directly from the Platform. This means API keys, auth tokens, and other sensitive values can be securely stored and referenced across your tests without needing to duplicate them or hardcode anything.

For our on-premise users, you can now set default API keys for LLM-as-a-judge across your entire deployment. No need to configure keys for every individual workspace or project, just set once and go.

We’ve added lots of features and enhancements across our platform, focused on improving performance, expanding functionality, and streamlining workflows. To highlight a few:

🔐 Increased security with SAML SSO directory sync. You can now sync SAML SSO on Openlayer with existing security groups. Openlayer can now more seamlessly fit into your organization’s security policies.

🧑‍⚖️ New LLM-as-a-judge models. We’ve expanded the models available to act as judges for LLM-as-a-judge tests. You can now use models from Cohere and Vertex AI when running these tests.

🎨 Website refresh. We’ve given our website a brand refresh, including lots of fun animations showcasing the Openlayer product in action and case studies from some of our customers.

🔎🩹 Quickly identify issues with the improved test diagnosis page Diagnosing issues is a core part of the eval process, and that’s why we want to make sure our test diagnosis page is as helpful as possible. To make it easier to figure out why a test has been skipped or errored, we’ve added a list view where you can easily scan through test results and view any related error messages. We’ve added an overview so you can see the test result breakdown at a glance, as well as recent issues and failures. We’ve also made each section of the page collapsible for a smoother experience.

🔐 Make your login even more secure by enabling SAML SSO We now support SAML SSO using any of the major providers so that you can make sure your team’s workspace has that extra layer of security.

We understand that you may have metrics that are highly specific to your use case, and you want to use these alongside standard metrics to eval your AI systems. That’s why we built custom metrics. You can now upload any custom metric to Openlayer simply by specifying them in your openlayer.json file. These metrics can then be used in a number of ways on platform; they’ll show up as metric tests that you can run, or as project-wide metrics that will be computed on all of your data. Now, your evals on Openlayer are more comprehensive than ever.

We’ve shipped more exciting features and improvements this month, including the ability to create multiple API keys, and a bunch of new models available for direct-to-API calls, so be sure to read below for a full list of updates!

Setting up alerts is an essential first step to monitoring your LLMs, but in order to understand why issues arise in production, it’s helpful to have human eyes to review requests.

This process is now easier than ever in Openlayer - you can add annotations to any requests, with custom values. If you’ve set up tracing, you can annotate each individual step of the trace for more granularity.

Every request can also be rated as a thumbs up or thumbs down, making it easy to scan through good and bad responses and figure out where your model is going wrong.

We’ve released some other huge features and improvements this month, so make sure to read the full changelog below!

Most of us get how crucial AI evals are now. The thing is, almost all the eval platforms we’ve seen are clunky – there’s too much manual setup and adaptation needed, which breaks developers’ workflows.

Last week, we released a radically simpler workflow.

You can now connect your GitHub repo to Openlayer, and every commit on GitHub will also commit to Openlayer, triggering your tests. You now have continuous evaluation without extra effort.

You can customize the workflow using our CLI and REST API. We also offer template repositories around common use cases to get you started quickly.

You can leverage the same setup to monitor your live AI systems after you deploy them. It’s just a matter of setting some variables, and your Openlayer tests will run on top of your live data and send alerts if they start failing.

We’re very excited for you to try out this new workflow, and as always, we’re here to help and all feedback is welcome.

We’re thrilled to share with you the latest update to Openlayer: comprehensive tracing capabilities and enhanced request streaming with function calling support.

Now, you can trace every step of a request to gain detailed insights in Openlayer. This granular view helps you to debug and optimize performance.

Additionally, we’ve expanded our request streaming capabilities to include support for function calling. This means that requests you stream to Openlayer are no longer a black box, giving you improved control and flexibility.

We’ve added more ways to test latency. Beyond just mean, max, and total, you can now make test latency with minimum, median, 90th percentile, and 99th percentile metrics. Just head over to the Performance page and the new test types are there.

You can also create more granular data tests by applying subpopulation filters to run the tests on specific clusters of your data. Just add filters in the Data Integrity or Data Consistency pages, and the subpopulation will be applied.

You can now click on any test to dive deep into the test result history. Select specific date ranges to see the requests from that time period, scrub through the graph to spot patterns over time, and get a full picture of performance.

We’ve also added the ability to add multiple criteria to GPT evaluation tests. Let’s say you’re using an LLM to parse customer support tickets and want to make sure every output contains the correct name, email address and account ID for the customer. You can now set a unique threshold for each of these criteria in one test.

We’re excited to introduce the newest set of tests to hit Openlayer! Make sure column averages fall within a certain range with the Column average test. Ensure that your outputs contain specific keywords per request with our Column contains string test, where the values in Column B must contain the string values in Column A. Monitor and manage your costs by setting Max cost, Mean cost, and Total cost tests.

As additional support for managing costs, we now show you the cost of every request in the Requests page.

You can now filter data when creating integrity or consistency tests so that the results are calculated on specific subpopulations of your data, just like performance goals.

That’s not all, so make sure to read all the updates below. Join our Discord community to follow along on our development journey, and stay tuned for more updates from the changelog! 📩🤝

Introducing support for multi-turn interactions. You can now log and refer back to the full chat history of each of your production requests in Openlayer. Sort by timestamp, token usage, or latency to dig deeper into your AI’s usage. And view graphs of these metrics over time.

There’s more: we now support Google’s new Gemini model. Try out the new model and compare its performance against others.

⬇️ Read the full changelog below for all the tweaks and improvements we’ve shipped over the last few weeks and, as always, stay closer to our development journey by joining our Discord!

Openlayer now offers built-in GPT evaluation for your model outputs. You can write descriptive evaluations like “Make sure the outputs do not contain profanity,” and we will use an LLM to grade your agent or model given this criteria.

We also added support for creating and running tests from Great Expectations (GX). GX offers hundreds of unique tests on your data, which are now available in all your Openlayer projects. Besides these, there are many other new tests available across different project task types. View the full list below ⬇️

You can now stream data real-time to Openlayer rather than uploading in batch. Alongside this, there is a new page for viewing all your model’s requests in monitoring mode. You can now see a table of your model’s usage in real-time, as well as metadata like token count and latency per-row.

We’ve shipped the V1 of our new TypeScript client! You can use this to log your requests to Openlayer if you are using OpenAI as a provider directly. Later, we will expand this library to support other providers and use cases. If you are interested, reach out and we can prioritize.

Finally, we’re releasing a brand new http://docs.openlayer.com/ that offers more guidance on how to get the most out of Openlayer and features an updated, sleek UI.

As always, stay tuned for more updates and join our Discord community to be a part of our ongoing development journey 🤗

We’re thrilled to announce a new and improved onboarding flow, designed to make your start with us even smoother. We’ve also completely redesigned the app navigation, making it more intuitive than ever.

You can now use several new consistency and integrity goals — fine-grained feature & label drift, dataset size-ratios, new category checks and more. These are described in more detail below.

You’ll also notice a range of improvements — new Slack and email notifications for monitoring projects, enhanced dark mode colors and improved transactional email deliverability. We’ve reorganized several features for ease of use, including the subpopulation filter flow and the performance goal page layout.

If you’re working in dev mode, check out the dedicated commit page where you can view all the commit’s metadata and download your models and data to use locally.

Stay tuned for more updates and join our Discord community to be a part of our ongoing development journey. 🚀👥

It’s been a couple of months since we posted our last update, but not without good reason! Our team has been cranking away at our two most requested features: support for LLMs and real-time monitoring / observability. We’re so excited to share that they are both finally here! 🚀

We’ve also added a Slack integration, so you can receive all your Openlayer notifications right where you work. Additionally, you’ll find tons of improvements and bug fixes that should make your experience using the app much smoother.

We’ve also upgraded all Sandbox accounts to a free Starter plan that allows you to create your own project in development and production mode. We hope you find this useful!

Join our Discord for more updates like this and get closer to our development journey!

This week we shipped a huge set of features and improvements, including our solution for regression projects!

Finally, you can use Openlayer to evaluate your tabular regression models. We’ve updated our suite of goals for these projects, added new metrics like mean squared error (MSE) and mean absolute error (MAE), and delivered a new set of tailored insights and visualizations such as residuals plots.

This update also includes an improved notification system: toasts that present in the bottom right corner when creating or updating goals, projects, and commits. Now, you create all your goals at once with fewer button clicks.

Last but not least, you can now download the models and datasets under a commit within the platform. Simply navigate to your commit history and click on the options icon to download artifacts. Never worry about losing track of your models or datasets again.

We are thrilled to release the first edition of our company’s changelog, marking an exciting new chapter in our journey. We strive for transparency and constant improvement, and this changelog will serve as a comprehensive record of all the noteworthy updates, enhancements, and fixes that we are constantly shipping. With these releases, we aim to foster a tighter collaboration with all our amazing users, ensuring you are up to date on the progress we make and exciting features we introduce. So without further ado, let’s dive into the new stuff!