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Integrate TealTiger with Helicone to combine governance decisions with LLM proxy monitoring and cost tracking.

Why integrate TealTiger with Helicone?

Helicone provides LLM proxy and observability. Adding TealTiger gives you:
  • Governance + monitoring - Policy decisions alongside LLM metrics
  • Cost attribution - Separate governance costs from LLM costs
  • Compliance evidence - Audit trails in Helicone
  • Unified dashboard - All AI operations in one place

Quick start

Install both packages:
Configure TealTiger to export to Helicone:

What gets exported?

TealTiger exports governance data as Helicone custom properties:

Decision properties

Cost properties

Complete example with OpenAI

Viewing in Helicone

TealTiger decisions appear in Helicone:
  1. Request view - See governance decisions as custom properties
  2. Filtering - Filter by TealTiger decision action
  3. Cost tracking - Separate governance costs from LLM costs
  4. Dashboards - Create charts for policy decisions
  5. Alerts - Get notified of policy violations

Creating Helicone dashboards

Dashboard 1: Policy decisions

Filter requests by:
  • TealTiger-Decision = DENY - Blocked requests
  • TealTiger-Decision = ALLOW - Allowed requests
  • TealTiger-RiskScore > 80 - High-risk requests

Dashboard 2: Cost breakdown

Track costs:
  • Total LLM cost (from Helicone)
  • Total governance cost (from TealTiger)
  • Cost per decision action

Dashboard 3: Compliance

Monitor compliance:
  • Requests with PII detected
  • Requests with PII redacted
  • Policy violations by type

Best practices

  1. Use Helicone proxy - Route all LLM calls through Helicone
  2. Export costs - Track governance overhead separately
  3. Create dashboards - Visualize policy decisions
  4. Set up alerts - Get notified of violations
  5. Filter by properties - Use TealTiger properties for analysis

Next steps

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Audit schema

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