inspect-calls-and-metrics

name	inspect-calls-and-metrics
description	Inspect Patter call data — mount the live dashboard, read CallMetrics (duration, cost, latency, transcript), export call history to CSV/JSON, and track per-call provider costs. Use when the user wants to debug a call, see which calls cost the most, audit transcripts, monitor a live agent, find a recording URL, check latency p99, export call history for reporting, or watch the dashboard during a demo. Covers Patter 0.7.0's in-memory MetricsStore + 500-call ring buffer, the FastAPI/Express dashboard mount, the REST API and SSE stream — in both Python and TypeScript.
license	MIT
compatibility	Requires Patter >= 0.7.0 and a running Patter server (`phone.serve(...)`). Dashboard auth (basic auth) is recommended when serving on anything other than 127.0.0.1.
metadata	{"author":"patter","version":"0.1.0","parity":"both"}

Inspect calls and metrics with Patter

Patter persists every call to an in-memory MetricsStore (500-call ring buffer by default), optionally backed by disk. The dashboard surfaces live calls, transcripts, latency breakdowns, per-leg cost, and recordings. You can also pull CallMetrics programmatically and export to CSV/JSON for offline analysis.

Mount the live dashboard

Patter ships a dashboard route you can mount on the same server as your agent. Visit http://localhost:8000/dashboard to see live calls.

Python

import asyncio
from getpatter import Patter, Twilio, OpenAIRealtime2

async def main():
    phone = Patter(carrier=Twilio(), phone_number="[phone]")
    agent = phone.agent(
        engine=OpenAIRealtime2(),
        system_prompt="...",
        first_message="Hi!",
    )
    # dashboard=True mounts /dashboard (UI) + /api/calls (REST) + /sse (live stream)
    await phone.serve(agent, tunnel=True, dashboard=True)

asyncio.run(main())

TypeScript

import { Patter, Twilio, OpenAIRealtime2 } from "getpatter";

const phone = new Patter({ carrier: new Twilio(), phoneNumber: "[phone]" });
const agent = phone.agent({
  engine: new OpenAIRealtime2(),
  systemPrompt: "...",
  firstMessage: "Hi!",
});

await phone.serve({ agent, tunnel: true, dashboard: true });

Open http://localhost:8000/dashboard. Live calls appear at the top, with real-time transcript, current cost, and latency p50/p90/p95/p99.

Read metrics in code

CallMetrics is the canonical model — every finished call produces one. The hook is on_call_end passed as a kwarg to phone.serve(...). It receives a dict (the CallMetrics serialized form), and is async.

Python

import asyncio
from getpatter import Patter, Twilio, OpenAIRealtime2

phone = Patter(carrier=Twilio(), phone_number="[phone]")

async def on_end(metrics: dict) -> None:
    print(f"Call {metrics['call_id']} | {metrics['duration_seconds']:.1f}s")
    cost = metrics.get("cost", {})
    print(f"  Cost ${cost.get('total_usd', 0):.4f}: "
          f"STT ${cost.get('stt_usd', 0):.4f} · "
          f"LLM ${cost.get('llm_usd', 0):.4f} · "
          f"TTS ${cost.get('tts_usd', 0):.4f} · "
          f"Realtime ${cost.get('realtime_usd', 0):.4f} · "
          f"Telephony ${cost.get('telephony_usd', 0):.4f}")
    print(f"  Latency p99: {metrics.get('latency_p99', 0):.0f} ms")

agent = phone.agent(engine=OpenAIRealtime2(), system_prompt="...", first_message="Hi!")
asyncio.run(phone.serve(agent, tunnel=True, on_call_end=on_end))

TypeScript

import { Patter, Twilio, OpenAIRealtime2 } from "getpatter";

const phone = new Patter({ carrier: new Twilio(), phoneNumber: "[phone]" });

const agent = phone.agent({
  engine: new OpenAIRealtime2(),
  systemPrompt: "...",
  firstMessage: "Hi!",
});

await phone.serve({
  agent,
  tunnel: true,
  onCallEnd: async (metrics) => {
    console.log(`Call ${metrics.call_id} | ${metrics.duration_seconds.toFixed(1)}s`);
    console.log(`  Cost $${metrics.cost?.total_usd?.toFixed(4) ?? "0"}`);
    console.log(`  Latency p99: ${metrics.latency_p99?.toFixed(0) ?? "0"} ms`);
  },
});

You can also pull live data programmatically from the MetricsStore attached to the server — phone.metrics_store (Python) / phone.metricsStore (TypeScript). It returns None/null until serve() has bound; once the server is live, you can iterate calls.

Export call history

calls_to_csv and calls_to_json operate on the MetricsStore exposed on the running server.

Python

from getpatter import calls_to_csv, calls_to_json

store = phone.metrics_store          # available after serve() has bound
if store is not None:
    with open("calls.csv", "w") as f:
        f.write(calls_to_csv(store))
    import json
    with open("calls.json", "w") as f:
        json.dump(calls_to_json(store), f, indent=2)

TypeScript

import { callsToCsv, callsToJson } from "getpatter";
import { writeFileSync } from "fs";

const store = phone.metricsStore;     // available after serve() has bound
if (store) {
  writeFileSync("calls.csv", callsToCsv(store));
  writeFileSync("calls.json", JSON.stringify(callsToJson(store), null, 2));
}

REST API (when dashboard is mounted)

Route	Purpose
GET /api/calls	List recent calls (newest first).
GET /api/calls/{call_id}	Detailed metrics + transcript for one call.
GET /sse	Server-Sent Events stream of live call updates.

Example with curl:

curl http://localhost:8000/api/calls | jq '.[] | {id: .call_id, cost: .cost.total_usd, duration: .duration_seconds}'

Persist to disk (survive restarts)

By default the ring buffer is in-memory. Pass persist=True (or a path) to mirror to disk:

Python

phone = Patter(
    carrier=Twilio(),
    phone_number="[phone]",
    persist=True,                  # writes to ./.patter/calls.db
    # persist="/var/patter/calls.db",  # or a custom path
)

TypeScript

const phone = new Patter({
  carrier: new Twilio(),
  phoneNumber: "[phone]",
  persist: true,                   // writes to ./.patter/calls.db
});

Lock the dashboard down (bearer token)

When exposing the dashboard beyond 127.0.0.1, gate it with a bearer token. Patter ships token auth out of the box via the dashboard_token kwarg — all /dashboard, /api/calls, and /sse routes then require Authorization: Bearer <token>.

Python

await phone.serve(agent, tunnel=True, dashboard_token="hunter2-rotate-me")

TypeScript

await phone.serve({ agent, tunnel: true, dashboardToken: "hunter2-rotate-me" });

For programmatic FastAPI/Express embedding (not just phone.serve), the lower-level make_auth_dependency(...) (Python) / makeAuthMiddleware(...) (TypeScript) factories are also exported — useful when you mount the dashboard onto your own app and need a custom auth scheme.

Without auth, do not bind to 0.0.0.0 — call transcripts are PII.

What's inside CallMetrics

Key fields (see models.py / metrics.ts for the full list):

Field	Meaning
call_id	UUID, persistent across the call.
duration_seconds	Total call wall time.
turns	List of TurnMetrics (user/agent each).
cost	CostBreakdown(stt_usd, llm_usd, tts_usd, realtime_usd, telephony_usd, total_usd).
latency_avg / p50 / p90 / p95 / p99	Turn-time percentiles in ms.
provider_mode	"openai_realtime", "elevenlabs_convai", "pipeline".
stt_provider / llm_provider / tts_provider / telephony_provider	Provider identifiers.
stt_model / llm_model / tts_model	Model strings.
transcript	List of (role, text) tuples — set when input_audio_transcription_model is configured.
context_tokens	(0.7.0, pipeline mode) Peak estimated prompt size across the call, in the chars / 4 token unit — chart it to spot context growth on long calls.

Recording URLs live in the carrier's payload, surfaced in the call.recording.saved log line — they are not exposed as a typed CallMetrics field since 0.6.3. Enable recording with phone.serve(..., recording=True).

Gotchas

• Ring buffer is 500 calls by default. Older calls are evicted from memory (still on disk if persist=True). For long-running production, use the on-disk SQLite to query history.
• Dashboard exposes transcripts (PII) — always gate with auth + HTTPS in production.
• on_call_end runs synchronously in the event loop. Don't block — push to a queue for slow exporters.
• Latency p99 == infinity for short calls with < 100 turns. The percentile estimator needs ~100 samples; for shorter calls use latency_avg.
• Cost breakdown precision: provider price tables are baked into pricing.py at SDK release time. If a provider changes pricing mid-quarter, your cost.*_usd will drift. Use merge_pricing({...}) to override.

Common errors

Symptom	Fix
Dashboard 404s	You passed dashboard=False to phone.serve(...). The default is True — drop the kwarg.
Dashboard shows no calls	Server restarted with persistence off. persist=True is the default since 0.6.3; verify you didn't override it.
Transcript is empty	Realtime mode without input_audio_transcription_model set, or guardrail blocked the response.
Recording URL is missing from logs	recording=True wasn't passed to phone.serve(...), or the carrier doesn't have recording enabled.
cost.total_usd is 0	The provider isn't in Patter's pricing table. Override per-provider rates via merge_pricing({...}) on the Patter constructor.

Related skills

• build-voice-agent — agents must exist before they produce metrics.
• add-tools-and-handoffs — tools' per-call latency shows in the dashboard.

References

• Patter Dashboard guide: https://docs.getpatter.com/python-sdk/dashboard · https://docs.getpatter.com/typescript-sdk/dashboard
• Metrics reference: https://docs.getpatter.com/python-sdk/metrics · https://docs.getpatter.com/typescript-sdk/metrics
• Call logging: https://docs.getpatter.com/python-sdk/call-logging
• Pricing module: https://github.com/PatterAI/Patter/blob/main/libraries/python/getpatter/pricing.py