OpenTelemetry provides vendor-neutral instrumentation for traces, metrics, and logs across distributed systems. Posts cover OTel integration with multi-agent AI frameworks, Kubernetes collector deployment, evaluation pipelines built on OTel spans, and the observability patterns specific to agentic workloads. Topics include custom span attributes for LLM calls, trace-based testing, and exporter configuration for production deployments.
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OpenTelemetry through the Microsoft Agent Framework's configure_otel_providers, custom workflow spans, custom metrics for runs/duration/agent selection, Jaeger + Prometheus + Grafana wiring, and the set-once latch gotcha.
otelprovider.NewMiddleware wraps every run in an OpenTelemetry span tagged with gen_ai attributes — the same one-line middleware hook you use for logging.
How to instrument multi-agent systems with OpenTelemetry, propagate trace context across an in-memory bus, and build a layered evaluation pipeline — from real-time policy gates to async LLM-as-judge to SLO-based trust scoring. Everything I learned building Genie.
Turn a workflow run into a tree of OpenTelemetry spans — workflow.build, workflow.run, executor.process, edge_group.process, message.send — with one setup call.
Trace a workflow with configure_otel_providers and a root span. The framework emits workflow.build, workflow.run, executor.process, edge_group.process, message.send spans.
Notes from integrating OpenTelemetry into airshipit, an open-source bare-metal Kubernetes lifecycle project with contributions from Ericsson, AT&T, Microsoft, and others. The hard part wasn't OTel; it was making distributed traces useful across foreign code.
All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse all posts or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.