> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Tracing with Multi DB Scenario

> Configure tracing manually with setup_tracing, batching exports to a dedicated traces database.

```python 06_tracing_with_multi_db_scenario.py theme={null}
"""
Traces with AgentOS
Requirements:
    pip install agno opentelemetry-api opentelemetry-sdk openinference-instrumentation-agno
"""

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.db.sqlite import SqliteDb
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat
from agno.os import AgentOS
from agno.tools.hackernews import HackerNewsTools
from agno.tools.websearch import WebSearchTools
from agno.tracing.setup import setup_tracing

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Example
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Set up databases - each agent has its own db
db1 = SqliteDb(db_file="tmp/db1.db", id="db1")
db2 = SqliteDb(db_file="tmp/db2.db", id="db2")

# Dedicated traces database
tracing_db = SqliteDb(db_file="tmp/traces.db", id="traces")

setup_tracing(
    db=tracing_db, batch_processing=True, max_queue_size=1024, max_export_batch_size=256
)

agent = Agent(
    name="HackerNews Agent",
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-4o-mini"),
    tools=[HackerNewsTools()],
    instructions="You are a hacker news agent. Answer questions concisely.",
    markdown=True,
    db=db1,
)

agent2 = Agent(
    name="Web Search Agent",
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-4o-mini"),
    tools=[WebSearchTools()],
    instructions="You are a web search agent. Answer questions concisely.",
    markdown=True,
    db=db2,
)

# Setup our AgentOS app with dedicated db
# This ensures traces are written to and read from the same database
agent_os = AgentOS(
    description="Example app for tracing HackerNews",
    agents=[agent, agent2],
    db=tracing_db,  # Default database for the AgentOS (used for tracing)
)
app = agent_os.get_app()

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Example
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

if __name__ == "__main__":
    agent_os.serve(app="06_tracing_with_multi_db_scenario:app", reload=True)
```

## Run the Example

<Steps>
  <Snippet file="create-venv-step.mdx" />

  <Step title="Install dependencies">
    ```bash theme={null}
    uv pip install -U "agno[os]" ddgs openai opentelemetry-api opentelemetry-exporter-otlp
    ```
  </Step>

  <Step title="Export your OpenAI API key">
    <CodeGroup>
      ```bash Mac/Linux theme={null}
      export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"
      ```

      ```bash Windows theme={null}
      $Env:OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"
      ```
    </CodeGroup>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Run the example">
    Save the code above as `06_tracing_with_multi_db_scenario.py`, then run:

    ```bash theme={null}
    python 06_tracing_with_multi_db_scenario.py
    ```
  </Step>
</Steps>

Full source: [cookbook/05\_agent\_os/tracing/06\_tracing\_with\_multi\_db\_scenario.py](https://github.com/agno-agi/agno/blob/main/cookbook/05_agent_os/tracing/06_tracing_with_multi_db_scenario.py)