Observability & Auditability

Track every step.

Required Telemetry

●       User request

●       Context loaded

●       Retrieved documents

●       Tool / MCP calls (including which server and scope)

●       Policy decisions

●       Model chosen

●       Tokens used

●       Cost

●       Latency

●       Errors

●       Human approvals

NEW IN 2026

AgentOps has emerged as a distinct discipline for this: a taxonomy of traceable artefacts across the full agent lifecycle, not just request/response logging. As of 2026 there is still no single widely-adopted AgentOps playbook — most teams assemble one from database observability tools, LLM observability vendors (e.g. Langfuse, OpenTelemetry-based tracing), and custom instrumentation. Budget for this explicitly rather than assuming a framework provides it out of the box.

Why Critical: Without tracing, production debugging becomes impossible.