Instrumentation

/ih.nstruh.meh'ntay.shuhn/Adding code/hooks to capture traces, metadata, and events throughout the system. Good instrumentation makes failures reproducible and measurable instead of anecdotal. (noun)

“Instrumentation around retrieval made it clear the wrong index was queried.”

Related Tracing and instrumentation terms

Attachment

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Span

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Tool call

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Trace

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User feedback

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Wrap (provider wrap)

From the docs

Instrument your application

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Trace LLM calls

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Trace application logic

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