AICentral

An AI Control Centre for monitoring, authenticating, and providing resilient access to multiple Open AI services.

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AI Central is a powerful tool designed to take control of your AI services with minimal overhead. It is built on Asp.Net Core and dotnet 8, offering fast web-server performance. The tool enables advanced Azure APIm scenarios, PII stripping logging to Cosmos DB, token metrics through Open Telemetry, and intelligent routing features. AI Central supports various endpoint selection strategies, proxying asynchronous requests, custom OAuth2 authorization, circuit breakers, rate limiting, and extensibility through plugins. It provides an extensibility model for easy plugin development and offers enriched telemetry and logging capabilities for monitoring and insights.

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AI Central

Take control of your AI services.

Features

Minimal overhead - written on Asp.Net Core, on dotnet 8. One of the fastest web-servers in the business.
Enable advanced Azure APIm scenarios such as passing a Subscription Key, and a JWT from libraries like PromptFlow that don't support that out-of-the-box.
PII Stripping logging to Cosmos DB
- Powered by graemefoster/aicentral.logging.piistripping
Lightweight out-the-box token metrics surfaced through Open Telemetry
- Does not buffer and block streaming
- Use for PTU Chargeback scenarios
- Gain quick insights into who's using what, how much, and how often
- Standard Open Telemetry format to surface Dashboards in you monitoring solution of choice
Prompt and usage logging to Azure Monitor
- Works for streaming endpoints as-well as non-streaming
Intelligent Routing
- Endpoint Selector that favours endpoints reporting higher available capacity
- Random endpoint selector
- Prioritised endpoint selector with fallback
- Lowest Latency endpoint selector
Can proxy asynchronous requests such as Azure OpenAI DALLE2 Image Generation across fleets of servers
Custom consumer OAuth2 authorisation
Can mint JWT time-bound and consumer-bound JWT tokens to make it easy to run events like Hackathons without blowing your budget
Circuit breakers and backoff-retry over downstream AI services
Local token rate limiting
- By consumer / by endpoint
- By number of tokens (including streaming by estimated token count)
Local request rate limiting
- By consumer / by endpoint
Bulkhead support for buffering requests to backend
Distributed token rate limiting (using Redis)
- Powered by an extension graemefoster/aicentral.ratelimiting.distributedredis
AI Search Vectorization endpoint
- Powered by an extension graemefoster/aicentral.azureaisearchvectorizer

Extensibility model makes it easy to build your own plugins

Quickstarts

To make it easy to get up and running, we are creating QuickStart configurations. Simply pull the docker container, set a few environment variables, and you're away.

Quickstart	Features
APImProxyWithCosmosLogging	Run in-front of Azure APIm AI Gateway for easy PromptFlow and PII stripped logging.

Configuration

See Configuration for more details.

The Azure OpenAI SDK retries by default. As AI Central does this for you you can turn it off in the client by passing new Azure.AI.OpenAI.OpenAIClientOptions() { RetryPolicy = new RetryPolicy(0) } when you create an OpenAIClient

Deployment

Install Azure CLI if you haven't done so already.
Install the Bicep CLI by running the following command in your terminal:

    az bicep install

Compile your Bicep file to an ARM template with the following command:

    az bicep build --file ./infra/main.bicep

This will create a file named main.json in the same directory as your main.bicep file.

Deploy the generated ARM template using the Azure CLI. You'll need to login to your Azure account and select the subscription where you want to deploy the resources:

    az login
    az account set --subscription "your-subscription-id"
    az deployment sub create --template-file ./infra/main.json --location "your-location"

Replace "your-subscription-id" with your actual Azure subscription ID and "your-location" with the location where you want to deploy the resources (e.g., "westus2").

To test deployment retrieve url for the webapp and update the following curl command:

curl -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "api-key: {your-customer-key}" \
    -d '{
          "messages": [
            {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
            {"role": "user", "content": "what is .net core"}
        ]

    }' \
    "https://{your-web-url}/openai/deployments/Gpt35Turbo0613/chat/completions?api-version=2024-02-01"

To test if everything works by running some code of your choice, e.g., this code with OpenAI Python SDK:

    import json
    import httpx
    from openai import AzureOpenAI
    
    api_key = "<your-customer-key>"
    
    def event_hook(req: httpx.Request) -> None:
        print(json.dumps(dict(req.headers), indent=2))
    
    client = AzureOpenAI(
        azure_endpoint="https://app-[a]-[b].azurewebsites.net",  #if you deployed to Azure Web App app-[a]-[b].azurewebsites.net
        api_key=api_key, 
        api_version="2023-05-15",
        http_client=httpx.Client(event_hooks={"request": [event_hook]})
    )
    
    
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model="Gpt35Turbo0613",
        messages=[
            {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
            {"role": "user", "content": "What is the first letter of the alphabet?"}
        ]
    )
    print(response)

Note: delete create resources az deployment group list --resource-group "your-resource-group-name" --query "[].{Name:name, Timestamp:properties.timestamp, State:properties.provisioningState}" --output table

Minimal

This sample produces a AI-Central proxy that

Listens on a hostname of your choosing
Proxies directly through to a back-end Open AI server
Can be accessed using standard SDKs

Installation

Docker

# Run container in Docker, referencing a local configuration file
docker run -p 8080:8080 -v .\appsettings.Development.json:/app/appsettings.Development.json -e ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Development graemefoster/aicentral:latest

Asp.Net CORE

#Create new project and bootstrap the AICentral nuget package
dotnet new web -o MyAICentral
cd MyAICentral
dotnet add package AICentral
#dotnet add package AICentral.Logging.AzureMonitor

Program.cs

//Minimal API to configure AI Central
var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

builder.Services.AddAICentral(builder.Configuration);

app.UseAICentral(
    builder.Configuration,
    //if using logging extension
    additionalComponentAssemblies: [ typeof(AzureMonitorLoggerFactory).Assembly ]
);

var app = builder.Build();

app.Run();

appsettings.<environment>.json

{
  "AICentral": {
    "Endpoints": [
      {
        "Type": "AzureOpenAIEndpoint",
        "Name": "openai-1",
        "Properties": {
          "LanguageEndpoint": "https://<my-ai>.openai.azure.com",
          "AuthenticationType": "Entra"
        }
      }
    ],
    "AuthProviders": [
      {
        "Type": "Entra",
        "Name": "aad-role-auth",
        "Properties": {
          "Entra": {
            "ClientId": "<my-client-id>",
            "TenantId": "<my-tenant-id>",
            "Instance": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/"
          },
          "Requirements" : {
            "Roles": ["required-roles"]
          }
        }
      }
    ],
    "EndpointSelectors": [
      {
        "Type": "SingleEndpoint",
        "Name": "default",
        "Properties": {
          "Endpoint": "openai-1"
        }
      }
    ],
    "Pipelines": [
      {
        "Name": "AzureOpenAIPipeline",
        "Host": "mypipeline.mydomain.com",
        "AuthProvider": "aad-role-auth",
        "EndpointSelector": "default"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Enriched telemetry and logging

Out of the box AI Central emits Open Telemetry metrics with the following dimensions:

Consumer
Endpoint
Pipeline
Prompt Tokens
Response Tokens including streaming

Allowing insightful dashboards to be built using your monitoring tool of choice.

AI Central also allows fine-grained logging. We ship an extension that logs to Azure Monitor, but it's easy to build your own.

See advanced-otel for dashboard inspiration!

Full example

This pipeline will:

Present an Azure OpenAI, and an Open AI downstream as a single upstream endpoint
- maps the incoming deployment Name "GPT35Turbo0613" to the downstream Azure OpenAI deployment "MyGptModel"
- maps incoming Azure OpenAI deployments to Open AI models
Present it as an Azure OpenAI style endpoint
Protect the front-end by requiring an AAD token issued for your own AAD application
Put a local Asp.Net core rate-limiting policy over the endpoint
Add logging to Azure monitor
- Logs quota, client caller information, and in this case the Prompt but not the response.

{
  "AICentral": {
    "Endpoints": [
      {
        "Type": "AzureOpenAIEndpoint",
        "Name": "openai-priority",
        "Properties": {
          "LanguageEndpoint": "https://<my-ai>.openai.azure.com",
          "AuthenticationType": "Entra|EntraPassThrough|ApiKey",
          "ModelMappings": {
            "Gpt35Turbo0613": "MyGptModel"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "Type": "OpenAIEndpoint",
        "Name": "openai-fallback",
        "Properties": {
          "LanguageEndpoint": "https://api.openai.com",
          "ModelMappings": {
            "Gpt35Turbo0613": "gpt-3.5-turbo",
            "Ada002Embedding": "text-embedding-ada-002"
          },
          "ApiKey": "<my-api-key>",
          "Organization": "<optional-organisation>"
        }
      }
    ],
    "AuthProviders": [
      {
        "Type": "Entra",
        "Name": "simple-aad",
        "Properties": {
          "Entra": {
            "ClientId": "<my-client-id>",
            "TenantId": "<my-tenant-id>",
            "Instance": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/",
            "Audience": "<custom-audience>"
          },
          "Requirements" : {
            "Roles": ["required-roles"]
          }
        }
      }
    ],
    "EndpointSelectors": [
      {
        "Type": "Prioritised",
        "Name": "my-endpoint-selector",
        "Properties": {
          "PriorityEndpoints": ["openai-1"],
          "FallbackEndpoints": ["openai-fallback"]
        }
      }
    ],
    "GenericSteps": [
      {
        "Type": "AspNetCoreFixedWindowRateLimiting",
        "Name": "window-rate-limiter",
        "Properties": {
          "LimitType": "PerConsumer|PerAICentralEndpoint",
          "MetricType": "Requests",
          "Options": {
            "Window": "00:00:10",
            "PermitLimit": 100
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "Type": "AzureMonitorLogger",
        "Name": "azure-monitor-logger",
        "Properties": {
          "WorkspaceId": "<workspace-id>",
          "Key": "<key>",
          "LogPrompt": true,
          "LogResponse": false,
          "LogClient": true
        }
      }
    ],
    "Pipelines": [
      {
        "Name": "MyPipeline",
        "Host": "prioritypipeline.mydomain.com",
        "EndpointSelector": "my-endpoint-selector",
        "AuthProvider": "simple-aad",
        "Steps": [
          "window-rate-limiter",
          "azure-monitor-logger"
        ],
        "OpenTelemetryConfig": {
          "AddClientNameTag": true,
          "Transmit": true
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

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