AI Observability Practices: From RAG Tracing to Agent Debugging
bibryam · x · 2026-08-11
Discusses why AI Observability is a must-have for AI Engineers and how Tracing sits at its core. Using a naive RAG system as an example, the article breaks down key concepts in GenAI applications:
- Orchestrator: The central software orchestrating the end-to-end process (e.g., apps built with LangChain).
- Trace: The end-to-end application flow from entry point to the final answer.
- Span: A smaller piece of the flow representing an atomic action like a function call or database query.
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