Production AI Observability: Go LLM Tracing with OTel

Production AI observability harness in Go leveraging OpenTelemetry GenAI Semantic Conventions (v1.42.0+). Features zero-allocation streaming LLM channel tracing with context.WithoutCancel, W3C context propagation, OTTL token cost attribution in OTel Collector, and low-cardinality Prometheus metric conversion.

August 6, 2026 · 19 min · Tuấn Anh

Production AI Observability: Building Zero-Overhead LLM Tracing & Cost Attribution with OpenTelemetry in Go

Production AI Observability: Building Zero-Overhead LLM Tracing & Cost Attribution with OpenTelemetry in Go Answer-first: Production AI observability instruments Go microservices with OpenTelemetry spans to capture LLM API latency, prompt token usage, cost metrics, and error rates in real-time. Implementing this architecture enforces sub-50ms P99 latency guarantees, zero-allocation memory pooling with Go 1.24 unique.Handle, and fault-tolerant Dapr 1.15 component orchestration for resilient production scaling. This design guarantees sub-50ms P99 latency bounds and zero-allocation memory pooling. ...

August 6, 2026 · 18 min · Vesviet Engineering Team