> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.keywordsai.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Initialize KeywordsAITelemetry

> Set up the tracing client and environment configuration

## Initialize client

```python theme={"system"}
import os
from keywordsai_tracing import KeywordsAITelemetry

os.environ["KEYWORDSAI_API_KEY"] = "your-api-key"
os.environ["KEYWORDSAI_BASE_URL"] = "https://api.keywordsai.co/api"

k_tl = KeywordsAITelemetry()
```

## Environment variables

* `KEYWORDSAI_API_KEY`: required API key
* `KEYWORDSAI_BASE_URL`: service base URL; default `https://api.keywordsai.co/api`

## Usage with decorators

```python theme={"system"}
from keywordsai_tracing.decorators import workflow, task

@workflow(name="pipeline")
def pipeline():
    @task(name="step")
    def step():
        return "ok"
    return step()

print(pipeline())
```