What does an AI agent trace actually look like?

Oct 29, 2026

Your AI agent just approved a return it shouldn't have, and nothing threw an error. Here's one agent request as a trace: the agent span, LLM calls, tool calls, and retrieval, with tokens and latency at every step. The fix wasn't the prompt. It was the data.

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