Tracing Tool Landscape

8 stories in Tracing Tool Landscape

Voice and Browser Agent Observability Gaps

Standard tracing misses where voice and browser agents actually fail.

Indirect injections buried in retrieved content pose greater risks than benchmarks reveal.

Trace-level attribution reveals hidden cost drivers aggregate dashboards can't see.

Framework choices determine which agent failures become visible during debugging.

Custom span facets make agent failures searchable across production traces.

Tracing captures observable system state but cannot judge correctness or find root causes.

Agent tracing tools struggle to diagnose why production systems fail, not just that they do.

Monitor production agents by unifying cost, latency, and quality signals across traces.