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+"""
+`TraceReceiver`: the one entry point for agent tracing.
+
+    tracing = TraceReceiver.from_env()          # or TraceReceiver(store=...)
+    await tracing.start()                        # create tables if missing
+
+    tracing.ingest(otlp_body, content_type, content_encoding, tenant)   # POST /v1/traces
+    await tracing.list_traces(scope, start_ms, end_ms, cursor)          # GET  /v1/traces
+    await tracing.get_trace(trace_id, scope)                            # GET  /v1/traces/{id}
+    await tracing.get_span(trace_id, span_id, scope)                    # GET  /v1/traces/{id}/spans/{span_id}
+
+The proxy endpoints are thin wrappers: auth -> build tenant/scope -> call one method.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+import os
+from typing import Final
+
+from litellm.constants import (
+    AGENT_TRACING_RETENTION_DAYS,
+    AGENT_TRACING_SPEND_LOG_RETENTION_DAYS,
+    OTLP_MAX_BODY_BYTES,
+    OTLP_OFFLOAD_DECODE_BYTES,
+)
+from litellm.integrations.clickhouse.clickhouse_client import ClickHouseClient
+from litellm.integrations.clickhouse.schema import ensure_schema
+from litellm.tracing.decode import decode_otlp
+from litellm.tracing.store import ClickHouseTraceStore
+from litellm.tracing.types import (
+    SpanDetail,
+    SpanRow,
+    Trace,
+    TracePage,
+    TraceScope,
+)
+
+
+class TracingBackpressureError(Exception):
+    """The span buffer is full. Callers should answer 429 so OTLP exporters retry."""
+
+
+class TracingPayloadTooLargeError(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+class Tenant:
+    """Who sent the spans. Always taken from auth, never from span attributes."""
+
+    def __init__(self, team_id: str, api_key_hash: str, org_id: str = ""):
+        self.team_id = team_id
+        self.api_key_hash = api_key_hash
+        self.org_id = org_id
+
+    def stamp(self, row: SpanRow) -> SpanRow:
+        row["TeamId"] = self.team_id
+        row["ApiKeyHash"] = self.api_key_hash
+        row["ResourceAttributes"] = {
+            **row["ResourceAttributes"],
+            "litellm.team_id": self.team_id,
+            "litellm.api_key_hash": self.api_key_hash,
+            "litellm.org_id": self.org_id,
+        }
+        return row
+
+
+class TraceReceiver:
+    def __init__(self, store: ClickHouseTraceStore):
+        self.store = store
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_env(cls) -> "TraceReceiver":
+        return cls(
+            store=ClickHouseTraceStore(
+                ClickHouseClient(
+                    url=os.environ["CLICKHOUSE_URL"],
+                    user=os.getenv("CLICKHOUSE_USER", "default"),
+                    password=os.getenv("CLICKHOUSE_PASSWORD", ""),
+                    database=os.getenv("CLICKHOUSE_DATABASE", "litellm"),
+                )
+            )
+        )
+
+    async def start(self) -> None:
+        await ensure_schema(
+            self.store.client,
+            trace_retention_days=AGENT_TRACING_RETENTION_DAYS,
+            spend_log_retention_days=AGENT_TRACING_SPEND_LOG_RETENTION_DAYS,
+        )
+        self.store.writer.start()
+
+    async def flush(self) -> None:
+        await self.store.flush()
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------ write
+
+    async def ingest(
+        self,
+        body: bytes,
+        content_type: str | None,
+        content_encoding: str | None,
+        tenant: Tenant,
+    ) -> int:
+        """Decode an OTLP trace export, stamp the tenant, queue the spans. Returns span count."""
+        if self.store.is_full():
+            raise TracingBackpressureError()
+        if len(body) > OTLP_MAX_BODY_BYTES:
+            raise TracingPayloadTooLargeError(f"OTLP body exceeds {OTLP_MAX_BODY_BYTES} bytes")
+        rows: Final = (
+            await asyncio.to_thread(decode_otlp, body, content_type, content_encoding)
+            if len(body) > OTLP_OFFLOAD_DECODE_BYTES
+            else decode_otlp(body, content_type, content_encoding)
+        )
+        self.store.write_spans([tenant.stamp(r) for r in rows])
+        return len(rows)
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------ read
+
+    async def list_traces(self, scope: TraceScope, start_ms: int, end_ms: int, cursor: str | None = None) -> TracePage:
+        return await self.store.list_traces(scope, start_ms, end_ms, cursor)
+
+    async def get_trace(self, trace_id: str, scope: TraceScope) -> Trace | None:
+        return await self.store.get_trace(trace_id, scope)
+
+    async def get_span(self, trace_id: str, span_id: str, scope: TraceScope) -> SpanDetail | None:
+        return await self.store.get_span(trace_id, span_id, scope)