OpenTelemetry Instrumentation for LLM and Agent Workloads
How to monitor LLM systems when traditional APM tools can't track tokens or hallucinations.
Julian Zola
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7 stories in AI Observability.
How to monitor LLM systems when traditional APM tools can't track tokens or hallucinations.
Majority of workers hide AI use, but companies lack the visibility to govern what they cannot see.
Falling AI prices triggered spending explosions that budgets couldn't predict or control.
Enterprises need five telemetry layers to see what autonomous agents actually decide and why.
Most AI observability tools miss what enterprises actually need to govern and audit.
Security operations need observability built for threats, not model performance metrics.
Tracing every tool call and decision reveals why agents fail, not just that they do.