Classification
2- Complexity
- Medium
- Impact area
- Technical
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Technique for tracking and correlating requests across services to make performance issues and root causes in distributed systems visible.
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Distributed Tracing
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Integrations
built-in Tracing
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Agent runs, tool calls, and subprocesses are made visible as connected end-to-end traces. The cross-vendor standard is the OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions (gen_ai.* span attributes), so a run instrumented once is portable across observability backends; a common sampling policy keeps all error traces and only a small fraction of successful ones.
Value stream stage: Build