observability
Observability
Observability is a measure of how well you can understand the internal state of a system based solely on the data it produces, particularly logs, metrics, and traces.
Observability goes beyond monitoring (is it up?). It's about answering 'why?' (why is this agent failing in this specific scenario?). For agents, this includes tracking the 'thought process' (Chain of Thought), tool call latency, and the resulting structured outputs, often visualized through distributed tracing.