# Helixdevelopment Helixagent Langchain Incident Runbook > LangChain Incident Runbook - Skill: `tomevault-io/helixdevelopment-helixagent-langchain-incident-runbook` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add tomevault-io/helixdevelopment-helixagent-langchain-incident-runbook` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/tomevault-io/helixdevelopment-helixagent-langchain-incident-runbook/raw - Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS) - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Coding & Dev Tools - Author: tomevault-io (https://skillmd.com/u/tomevault-io) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/tomevault-io/helixdevelopment-helixagent-langchain-incident-runbook --- # LangChain Incident Runbook ## Overview Standard operating procedures for responding to LangChain production incidents with diagnosis, mitigation, and recovery steps. ## Prerequisites - Access to production infrastructure - Monitoring dashboards configured - LangSmith or equivalent tracing - On-call rotation established ## Incident Classification ### Severity Levels | Level | Description | Response Time | Examples | |-------|-------------|---------------|----------| | SEV1 | Complete outage | 15 min | All LLM calls failing | | SEV2 | Major degradation | 30 min | 50%+ error rate, >10s latency | | SEV3 | Minor degradation | 2 hours | <10% errors, slow responses | | SEV4 | Low impact | 24 hours | Intermittent issues | ## Runbook: LLM Provider Outage ### Detection ```bash # Check if LLM provider is responding curl -s https://status.openai.com/api/v2/status.json | jq '.status.indicator' curl -s https://status.anthropic.com/api/v2/status.json | jq '.status.indicator' # Check your error rate # Prometheus query: # sum(rate(langchain_llm_requests_total{status="error"}[5m])) / sum(rate(langchain_llm_requests_total[5m])) ``` ### Diagnosis ```python # Quick diagnostic script import asyncio from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI from langchain_anthropic import ChatAnthropic async def diagnose_providers(): """Check all configured providers.""" results = {} # Test OpenAI try: llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o-mini", request_timeout=10) await llm.ainvoke("test") results["openai"] = "OK" except Exception as e: results["openai"] = f"FAIL: {e}" # Test Anthropic try: llm = ChatAnthropic(model="claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022", timeout=10) await llm.ainvoke("test") results["anthropic"] = "OK" except Exception as e: results["anthropic"] = f"FAIL: {e}" return results # Run print(asyncio.run(diagnose_providers())) ``` ### Mitigation: Enable Fallback ```python # Emergency fallback configuration from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI from langchain_anthropic import ChatAnthropic # Original llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o-mini") # With fallback primary = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o-mini", max_retries=1, request_timeout=5) fallback = ChatAnthropic(model="claude-3-haiku-20240307") llm = primary.with_fallbacks([fallback]) ``` ### Recovery 1. Monitor provider status page 2. Gradually remove fallback when primary recovers 3. Document incident in post-mortem --- ## Runbook: High Error Rate ### Detection ```bash # Check recent errors in logs grep -i "error" /var/log/langchain/app.log | tail -50 # Check LangSmith for failed traces # Navigate to: https://smith.langchain.com/o/YOUR_ORG/projects/YOUR_PROJECT/runs?filter=error%3Atrue ``` ### Diagnosis ```python # Analyze error distribution from collections import Counter import json def analyze_errors(log_file: str) -> dict: """Analyze error patterns from logs.""" errors = [] with open(log_file) as f: for line in f: if "error" in line.lower(): try: log = json.loads(line) errors.append(log.get("error_type", "unknown")) except: pass return dict(Counter(errors).most_common(10)) # Common error types and causes ERROR_CAUSES = { "RateLimitError": "Exceeded API quota - reduce load or increase limits", "AuthenticationError": "Invalid API key - check secrets", "Timeout": "Network issues or overloaded provider", "OutputParserException": "LLM output format changed - check prompts", "ValidationError": "Schema mismatch - update Pydantic models", } ``` ### Mitigation ```python # 1. Reduce load # Scale down instances or enable circuit breaker # 2. Emergency rate limiting from functools import wraps import time def emergency_rate_limit(calls_per_minute: int = 10): """Emergency rate limiter decorator.""" interval = 60.0 / calls_per_minute last_call = [0] def decorator(func): @wraps(func) async def wrapper(*args, **kwargs): elapsed = time.time() - last_call[0] if elapsed < interval: await asyncio.sleep(interval - elapsed) last_call[0] = time.time() return await func(*args, **kwargs) return wrapper return decorator # 3. Enable caching for repeated queries from langchain_core.globals import set_llm_cache from langchain_community.cache import InMemoryCache set_llm_cache(InMemoryCache()) ``` --- ## Runbook: Memory/Performance Issues ### Detection ```bash # Check memory usage ps aux | grep python | head -5 # Check for memory leaks # Prometheus: process_resident_memory_bytes ``` ### Diagnosis ```python # Memory profiling import tracemalloc tracemalloc.start() # Run your chain chain.invoke({"input": "test"}) snapshot = tracemalloc.take_snapshot() top_stats = snapshot.statistics('lineno') print("Top 10 memory allocations:") for stat in top_stats[:10]: print(stat) ``` ### Mitigation ```python # 1. Clear caches from langchain_core.globals import set_llm_cache set_llm_cache(None) # 2. Reduce batch sizes # Change from: chain.batch(inputs, config={"max_concurrency": 50}) # To: chain.batch(inputs, config={"max_concurrency": 10}) # 3. Restart pods gracefully # kubectl rollout restart deployment/langchain-api ``` --- ## Runbook: Cost Spike ### Detection ```bash # Check token usage # Prometheus: sum(increase(langchain_llm_tokens_total[1h])) # OpenAI usage dashboard # https://platform.openai.com/usage ``` ### Diagnosis ```python # Identify high-cost operations def analyze_costs(traces: list) -> dict: """Analyze cost from trace data.""" by_chain = {} for trace in traces: chain_name = trace.get("name", "unknown") tokens = trace.get("total_tokens", 0) if chain_name not in by_chain: by_chain[chain_name] = {"count": 0, "tokens": 0} by_chain[chain_name]["count"] += 1 by_chain[chain_name]["tokens"] += tokens return sorted(by_chain.items(), key=lambda x: x[1]["tokens"], reverse=True) ``` ### Mitigation ```python # 1. Emergency budget limit class BudgetExceeded(Exception): pass daily_spend = 0 DAILY_LIMIT = 100.0 # $100 def check_budget(cost: float): global daily_spend daily_spend += cost if daily_spend > DAILY_LIMIT: raise BudgetExceeded(f"Daily limit ${DAILY_LIMIT} exceeded") # 2. Switch to cheaper model # gpt-4o -> gpt-4o-mini (30x cheaper) # claude-3-5-sonnet -> claude-3-haiku (12x cheaper) # 3. Enable aggressive caching ``` --- ## Incident Response Checklist ### During Incident - [ ] Acknowledge incident in Slack/PagerDuty - [ ] Identify severity level - [ ] Start incident channel/call - [ ] Begin diagnosis - [ ] Implement mitigation - [ ] Communicate status to stakeholders - [ ] Document timeline ### Post-Incident - [ ] Verify full recovery - [ ] Update status page - [ ] Schedule post-mortem - [ ] Write incident report - [ ] Create follow-up tickets - [ ] Update runbooks ## Resources - [OpenAI Status](https://status.openai.com) - [Anthropic Status](https://status.anthropic.com) - [LangSmith](https://smith.langchain.com) - [PagerDuty Best Practices](https://response.pagerduty.com/) ## Next Steps Use `langchain-debug-bundle` for detailed evidence collection. --- > Source: [HelixDevelopment/HelixAgent](https://github.com/HelixDevelopment/HelixAgent) — distributed by [TomeVault](https://tomevault.io).