# Helicone

This page covers how to use the [Helicone](https://helicone.ai) within LangChain.

## What is Helicone?

Helicone is an [open source](https://github.com/Helicone/helicone) observability platform that proxies your OpenAI traffic and provides you key insights into your spend, latency and usage.

![Helicone](../_static/HeliconeDashboard.png)

## Quick start

With your LangChain environment you can just add the following parameter.

```bash
export OPENAI_API_BASE="https://oai.hconeai.com/v1"
```

Now head over to [helicone.ai](https://helicone.ai/onboarding?step=2) to create your account, and add your OpenAI API key within our dashboard to view your logs.

![Helicone](../_static/HeliconeKeys.png)