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title: "Getlantern: LLM Monitoring in Africa"
description: "Monitor every LLM API call in Africa: log inputs/outputs, latency, tokens & cost; set daily budgets, auto-pause, and block prompt injection."
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published_at: "2026-10-12T20:24:01.476Z"
updated_at: "2026-10-12T20:38:18.007Z"
---

# Getlantern: LLM Monitoring in Africa

Monitor every LLM API call in Africa: log inputs/outputs, latency, tokens & cost; set daily budgets, auto-pause, and block prompt injection.

## Breadcrumbs

- [Developer Tools & Cloud](/categories/developer-tools-cloud)
- [Lantern](/lantern)

## Summary

Observe, secure, and control every LLM API call

LLM observability and security for African AI teams, with real-time monitoring, cost analytics, and guardrails for prompt injection, PII redaction, and toxic outputs.

## Product details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://getlantern.dev/ |
| Tagline | Observe, secure, and control every LLM API call |
| Primary country | Kenya |
| Platforms | Web, API |
| Average rating |  |
| Published reviews | 0 |
| Verified listing | No |

## About the product

Lantern is an **LLM observability and security** tool for African companies deploying AI, providing real-time monitoring, guardrails, and cost controls for production LLM applications.

Key capabilities include:
- **Request and cost monitoring:** Logs every LLM call with **inputs, outputs, latency, token usage, and cost**, plus hourly and daily analytics and **per-app and per-model cost breakdowns**.
- **Guardrails for threats and data leaks:** Detects **prompt injection** attempts, performs **PII redaction** before prompts reach the model, and filters **toxic outputs** before responses reach end users. Guardrails support **hard-block** or **soft-log** modes.
- **Africa-focused PII detection:** Identifies and redacts PII formats commonly used in **Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa**, including **phone numbers, M-Pesa codes, and national IDs**.
- **Budgets, alerts, and auditability:** Supports **daily budget limits**, **automatic request pausing**, **cost-spike alerts** (for example, usage exceeding a baseline), **custom tags**, and a searchable **events log** with **export** for audits.

Available via a **web dashboard** with **Python SDK** integration (shown wrapping an existing **Anthropic** client); it is designed to work with **no proxy server and no infrastructure changes**.

Lantern targets **B2B AI teams** in Africa that build or operate LLM-powered products and need visibility into model usage, security controls, and predictable API spend.

Notable in the African market context, it is positioned as **built for African companies** and includes **region-specific PII detection** for KE, NG, and ZA formats, alongside monitoring and compliance-friendly logging for LLM applications.

## Features

- [Developer Tools & Cloud](/categories/developer-tools-cloud): Category
- [AI-Powered](/tags/ai-powered): Product feature or technology
- [B2B](/tags/b2b): Product feature or technology
- [SaaS](/tags/saas): Product feature or technology
- [Threat Detection](/tags/threat-detection): Product feature or technology
- [Ghana](/countries/ghana): Market
- [Kenya](/countries/kenya): Market
- [Nigeria](/countries/nigeria): Market
- [South Africa](/countries/south-africa): Market

## Related pages

- [Alternatives](/lantern/alternatives)
- [Reviews](/lantern/reviews)
- [Transparency](/lantern/transparency)

## Access and citation

- [Canonical HTML page](https://liners.com/lantern)
- [Markdown route index](/sitemap.md)
- [Agent access guide](/llms.txt)