Getting Started with LangSmith: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough

Lei Shang
2 min readJul 20, 2023

LangChain just announced LangSmith: https://blog.langchain.dev/announcing-langsmith/

To help you and myself get started and understand the immense potential of LangSmith, let’s walk through a minimal example:

Note: you will need your OpenAI API key to run the below example project. So get it ready before proceeding to the following steps.

Step 1: Sign up on LangSmith

Sign up on LangSmith. After the sign up, you should land on the home page:

Step 2: Create an API key

Click on the API Keys button at the bottom left of the home page and click Create API Key to create an API key. Make sure you copy the key for the following steps. See below screenshot:

Step 3: Create a new project

Now back to the home page by clicking on the top left LangSmith logo. Click on + New Project and give you new project a name and click Submit. See below screenshot. I named my first project my-first-langsmith-run. You should then see this page:

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