Agentic Observability: OpenTelemetry & Tracing Guide
Prerequisite: Familiarity with the concepts introduced in Part 8 — Inference Optimization Vllm. Review it first if the terminology in this part is unfamiliar. Part 9 — Agentic Observability: OpenTelemetry, Tracing & Cost Monitoring Debugging traditional microservices involves tracking HTTP status codes and database query latency. Debugging AI agent architectures demands tracking non-deterministic reasoning chains, LLM API token costs, prompt context inflation, and multi-turn tool loops. Without standardized distributed tracing, identifying why an agent query took 8.5 seconds or cost $1.20 per invocation becomes an impossible troubleshooting task. ...