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Tools directory

Tools we reference in audits, each mapped to a radar ring, quadrant, use cases, and adoption guide where available.

MLOps
  • MLflow

    Adoptopen source

    Open model registry, experiment tracking, and deployment packaging.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Model versioning
    • Promotion workflows
    • Experiment comparison
    Read adoption guide
  • Feast

    Trialopen source

    Open feature store for training/serving parity and point-in-time joins.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Shared features across models
    • Offline/online store sync
    Read adoption guide
  • Weights & Biases

    Trialcommercial

    Experiment tracking, model registry, and eval visualization for ML teams.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Experiment comparison
    • Hyperparameter sweeps
    • Registry with approvals
  • BentoML

    Trialopen source

    Package and serve ML/LLM models as production APIs with adapters and runners.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Model packaging
    • Unified serving API
    • Multi-model endpoints
    Read adoption guide
  • DVC

    Trialopen source

    Git-backed data and model versioning with reproducible pipelines.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Dataset versioning
    • Reproducible training
    • Large artifact tracking
    Read adoption guide
  • Prefect

    Trialhybrid

    Python-native workflow orchestration for training, eval, and data pipelines.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Scheduled retrains
    • Eval batch jobs
    • Ingestion pipelines
    Read adoption guide
  • Great Expectations

    Trialopen source

    Data quality expectations as code for training and feature pipelines.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Schema drift gates
    • Null/distribution checks
    • Pre-train validation
    Read adoption guide
LLMOps
  • LiteLLM

    Adoptopen source

    Unified LLM proxy with routing, caching, budgets, and provider failover.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Multi-provider gateway
    • Cost caps per team
    • OpenAI-compatible API
    Read adoption guide
  • Portkey

    Assesscommercial

    Managed LLM gateway with observability, guardrails, and routing.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Enterprise gateway
    • Fallback chains
    • Compliance logging
  • Helicone

    Trialhybrid

    LLM observability proxy with cost, latency, and cache analytics.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Quick cost visibility
    • Request logging
    • Cache hit tracking
    Read adoption guide
  • Promptfoo

    Trialopen source

    CLI and CI evals for prompts, RAG, and red-team scenarios.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Golden-set regression
    • Provider comparison
    • CI eval gates
    Read adoption guide
  • Qdrant

    Trialopen source

    Rust vector database with filtered search, hybrid retrieval, and self-host or cloud options.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Production RAG
    • Multi-tenant collections
    • EU self-hosted vectors
    Read adoption guide
  • pgvector

    Adoptopen source

    Postgres extension for embeddings - lowest ops cost when you already run Postgres.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Early RAG
    • Metadata + vectors in one DB
    • Regulated single-store stacks
    Read adoption guide
  • Ragas

    Trialopen source

    RAG-specific eval metrics: faithfulness, context precision/recall, answer relevancy.

    Website

    Use cases

    • RAG golden-set scoring
    • CI regression on retrieval quality
    • Chunking bake-offs
    Read adoption guide
  • DeepEval

    Trialopen source

    Pytest-style LLM evaluation framework with scorers for correctness, toxicity, and RAG.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Unit-test LLM apps
    • CI eval gates
    • Red-team suites
    Read adoption guide
  • LangGraph

    Assessopen source

    Graph-based agent orchestration with durable state, cycles, and human-in-the-loop nodes.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Multi-step agents
    • Branching tool flows
    • Checkpointed agent state
    Read adoption guide
  • Unstructured

    Trialhybrid

    Document parsing and chunking for PDFs, tables, and messy enterprise corpora.

    Website

    Use cases

    • RAG ingestion
    • OCR + layout extraction
    • Chunking experiments
    Read adoption guide
  • OpenRouter

    Assesscommercial

    Multi-provider LLM API marketplace with unified routing across model vendors.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Provider bake-offs
    • Failover across vendors
    • Rapid model access
    Read adoption guide
  • Pinecone

    Assesscommercial

    Managed vector database with serverless and dedicated options for RAG at scale.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Managed RAG
    • Fast time-to-prod vectors
    • Namespace multi-tenancy
    Read adoption guide
Observability
  • Langfuse

    Trialhybrid

    LLM traces, prompt versioning, eval datasets, and production analytics.

    Website

    Use cases

    • RAG debugging
    • Prompt A/B tests
    • Latency and cost per trace
    Read adoption guide
  • Evidently AI

    Trialopen source

    Data drift, model quality, and LLM eval reports as code.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Drift dashboards
    • Batch eval reports
    • CI drift gates
  • OpenTelemetry

    Adoptopen source

    Vendor-neutral traces, metrics, and logs - including GenAI semantic conventions.

    Website

    Use cases

    • End-to-end inference traces
    • Cross-service latency
    • Standardized AI spans
    Read adoption guide
  • Braintrust

    Trialcommercial

    Eval-driven development - datasets, scorers, and regression tracking for LLM apps.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Eval-driven releases
    • Human review queues
    • Scorer libraries
  • Arize Phoenix

    Trialopen source

    Open LLM observability and eval tracing - spans, embeddings viz, and dataset workflows.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Trace debugging
    • Embedding drift views
    • Offline eval notebooks
    Read adoption guide
Governance
  • Microsoft Presidio

    Adoptopen source

    PII detection and anonymization for text before LLM calls.

    Website

    Use cases

    • GDPR redaction
    • Pre-gateway scrubbing
    • Log sanitization
    Read adoption guide
  • NeMo Guardrails

    Trialopen source

    Programmable conversational guardrails (Colang) for input/output rails and dialog flows.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Topic boundaries
    • Jailbreak resistance
    • Structured dialog policies
    Read adoption guide
  • Guardrails AI

    Trialopen source

    Output validation and structured correction for LLM responses (schema, toxicity, PII).

    Website

    Use cases

    • JSON schema enforcement
    • Output PII checks
    • Format compliance
    Read adoption guide
  • Lakera Guard

    Assesscommercial

    Managed prompt-injection and content-risk detection for LLM and agent traffic.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Prompt injection defense
    • Enterprise content risk
    • Agent tool-call screening
    Read adoption guide
Platform & DevEx
  • Argo CD

    Trialopen source

    GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes and ML manifest promotion.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Environment promotion
    • Rollback via Git revert
    • Audit trail for deploys
    Read adoption guide
  • KServe

    Assessopen source

    Kubernetes-native model serving with canary and scale-to-zero.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Multi-model serving
    • Serverless inference
    • K8s-native ML
    Read adoption guide
  • Temporal

    Trialhybrid

    Durable workflow engine for long-running agent jobs with retries and approvals.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Agent orchestration
    • Human-in-the-loop
    • Reliable multi-step AI
    Read adoption guide
  • Backstage

    Trialopen source

    Internal developer portal for golden paths, templates, and service catalog.

    Website

    Use cases

    • AI service scaffolding
    • Template catalog
    • Ownership mapping
    Read adoption guide
  • vLLM

    Assessopen source

    High-throughput OpenAI-compatible inference server with PagedAttention for GPU efficiency.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Self-hosted LLM serving
    • Open-weight models
    • OpenAI-compatible local endpoint
    Read adoption guide
  • Terraform / OpenTofu

    Adoptopen source

    Declarative IaC for cloud landing zones, networking, identity, and AI service baselines.

    Website

    Use cases

    • AI landing zones
    • Network + IAM baselines
    • Reproducible GPU environments
    Read adoption guide
  • Flux CD

    Assessopen source

    CNCF GitOps toolkit for continuous reconciliation of Kubernetes manifests.

    Website

    Use cases

    • GitOps ML deploys
    • Multi-cluster sync
    • OCI artifact promotion
    Read adoption guide
FinOps
  • Kubecost / OpenCost

    Trialopen source

    Kubernetes cost allocation by namespace, label, and workload.

    Website

    Use cases

    • GPU showback
    • Team chargeback
    • Idle resource detection
    Read adoption guide
  • Infracost

    Assessopen source

    IaC cost estimates in PRs for Terraform and OpenTofu.

    Website

    Use cases

    • GPU cluster cost preview
    • FinOps in platform PRs
    Read adoption guide
  • Redis (vector / cache)

    Trialhybrid

    In-memory store used for semantic LLM caches, session memory, and low-latency vector indexes.

    Website

    Use cases

    • Semantic response cache
    • Agent short-term memory
    • Rate-limit counters
    Read adoption guide