px.active_session() to connect to remote endpoint?

[mattcvincent]

Hi there! When I have phoenix running on a remote machine (e.g. "PHOENIX_COLLECTOR_ENDPOINT" = "https://my-phoenix.io"), how do I create a session to that remote endpoint?

[mikeldking]

Hey @mattcvincent very good question. Currently sessions are assumed to not be remote but we will definitely add the ability to attach to remote sessions now that we have remote instances. We are planning on tackling this as part of our persistence story where traces, evaluations, and datasets will be preserved by the remote instance.

CC @RogerHYang

[mattcvincent]

Thanks. In the meantime, is there a way for me to replace

from phoenix.session.evaluation import get_qa_with_reference, get_retrieved_documents
queries_df = get_qa_with_reference(session)
retrieved_documents_df = get_retrieved_documents(session)

with some sort of export call to the remote endpoint?

aka curl https://my-phoenix.io/exports?filename=foo

If so, can you point me some pointers on how to create the exports of queries and retrieved documents?

[mikeldking]

@mattcvincent We launched a client so you can interact with the server easily. https://docs.arize.com/phoenix/api/client

[mattcvincent]

Amazing! I'm going to be sharing Phoenix during an "Intro to LLM Observability" talk at midwest AI user group this month and I'm excited to share this new client during my talk. Thank you 🙏