Observability for Tool-Using AI Agents
Learn how to debug AI agents in production with run-scoped traces, stable span attributes, redacted payloads, token and cost metrics, and tail sampling.
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observability
7 Devspedia articles tagged with observability.
Resource Budgets for Tool-Using AI Agents
Learn how to stop runaway AI agents with token budgets, cost ceilings, step limits, wall-clock deadlines, loop detection, and graceful degradation.
Compensating Actions for Tool-Using AI Agents
Learn how to make AI agent side effects safer with compensating actions, recovery policies, idempotent undo steps, and operator-ready audit trails.
Agent Command Ledgers for Reliable AI Workflows
Learn how to make AI agent side effects recoverable with command ledgers, fenced execution, reconciliation jobs, and replay-safe workflows.
Designing Retry Strategies with Backoff and Jitter
Learn how to retry transient failures without amplifying outages by combining timeouts, backoff, jitter, budgets, and observability.
Designing Dead-Letter Queues That Help You Recover Events
Learn how to design dead-letter queues with useful metadata, triage workflows, safe replay tools, and clear ownership so failed events can be recovered instead of ignored.
Mastering Observability in Distributed Systems with OpenTelemetry
Learn how to implement comprehensive observability in distributed systems using OpenTelemetry. This guide covers tracing, metrics, and logging with practical examples for mid to senior developers.