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Instrumenting AI Agents for the Agent Timeline: A Practical OpenTelemetry Guide

Our short summary of Honeycomb’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

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Problem

Debugging multi-step AI agents in production was hard because failures showed only vague model errors.

Solution

They added OpenTelemetry spans with a shared conversation ID to every model, tool, and downstream call, letting Honeycomb render a full timeline of the agent’s actions.

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.

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