Arize logo with text and reads: Release notes, November 7, 2024

Arize Release Notes: New Copilot Skills, Local Explainability, and More.

Sarah Welsh

Contributor

Welcome to our regular update on new releases, enhancements, and changes.

What’s New

New Copilot Skills

Custom Metric Skill: Copilot now writes custom metrics! Users can generate their desired metric by having copilot translate natural language descriptions or existing code (e.g., SQL, Python) into AQL. Learn more

Custom metrics

Embedding Summarization Skill: Copilot now works for embeddings! Users can select embedding data point and Copilot will analyze for patterns and insights. Learn more

cluster summarization

Enhancements

Local Explainability Report

Local Explainability is now live, providing both a table view and waterfall style plot for detailed, per-feature SHAP values on individual predictions. Learn more

Experiment Over Time Widget

This widget allows users to integrate experiment data directly into their dashboards for ongoing visibility and analysis. Users can now:

  • Select dataset of interest
  • Choose specific evaluations they want to visualize over time
  • Complete with direct connectivity to experiment details, making it easy to access the individual experiment results

Learn more

Full Function Calling Replay in Prompt Playground

Now users can follow the full function calling tutorial from OpenAI and iterate on different functions in different messages from within the Prompt Playground.

full function calling replay

Instrumentation Enhancements

  • Context Attribute Propagation: Arize now has a set of utilities (eg: using_session) that allow users to set properties on context. All of these properties will be picked up by all of our auto instrumentations and added to spans. Learn more 
  • Typescript Trace Configuration: Typescript auto instrumentations now accept a trace configuration which allows for data masking and configuration of attribute values on spans. Learn more 
  • Vercel AI SDK: Users can now ingest traces created by the Vercel AI SDK into Arize. Learn more 
  • LangChain Auto Instrumentation: Arize’s LangChain auto instrumentation now supports langchain.js version 0.3 and is backwards compatible with all previous versions. Learn more 

📚 New Content

The latest video tutorials, paper readings, ebooks, self-guided learning modules, and technical posts:

🧑‍🏫 Prompt Optimization Course
📊 Evaluation Workflows to Accelerate Generative App Development and AI ROI
🐝 Swarm: OpenAI’s Experimental Approach to Multi-Agent Systems
✏️ LLM Evaluation Course
🤖Techniques for Self-Improving LLM Evals