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How I think about agent observability

Traditional APM was built for web requests, not for agents that loop, retry, branch, and spend dollars per call. Here's what agent observability actually needs — and why I built Peekr.

The AI agent observability stack — what to measure, what to use

Most teams reach for one observability tool and call it solved. Different tools measure different things — traces, hallucinations, cost, drift. Here's a map of the space and where to start.

Dapper: What Google's Distributed Tracing Paper Actually Says

Every distributed tracing tool you use — Jaeger, Zipkin, OpenTelemetry — descends from one design decision Google made in 2010: sample at the trace root, not per-span. The paper explains why, and the failure modes it didn't fully solve.