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Version: 6.1

AI Observability: Traces

The AI Observability: Traces dashboard is designed for analyzing AI request traces.
It allows studying the structure and behavior of requests at the level of individual spans: agent steps, LLM calls, and tools.

Useful for: AI agent developers, debugging engineers, performance specialists.

Data source: gen_ai_traces*

Main Sections​

1. Traces Summary and Operation Activity​

Shows key indicators for traces, spans, and AI service operations:

  • number of services, traces, and spans
  • average trace duration
  • number of spans with errors
  • trace dynamics by services
  • distribution of traces and tool calls by operation groups

Traces Summary and Operation Activity

2. Traces Summary​

Shows a table of traces for the selected period and allows transitioning to details of a specific trace:

  • trace identifier
  • start and end time
  • trace source service
  • number of spans and errors
  • trace execution duration

Drilldown is available in the table: when selecting a trace, the Trace Details and Trace Map panels hidden by default open.

Traces Summary

3. Trace Details​

Shows detailed information about the selected trace and its spans:

  • general parameters of the selected trace
  • list of spans and their duration
  • services and operations within the trace
  • execution statuses and errors

The panel is displayed after selecting a trace in the Traces Summary table.

Details of Selected Trace

4. Trace Map​

Shows the visual structure of the selected trace as a connected map of spans:

  • root span of the trace
  • child operations and tool calls
  • connections between request execution stages
  • duration of individual operations

The panel is displayed after selecting a trace in the Traces Summary table.

Trace Map

5. Spans and Latencies​

Shows span details and operation duration within traces:

  • span dynamics over time
  • slowest spans
  • table of spans with execution parameters
  • services, groups, and tools associated with span operations

Spans and Latencies

6. Trace Errors​

Shows errors occurring during trace execution and individual span operations:

  • list of erroneous spans
  • services and operations where errors occurred
  • duration of erroneous operations
  • error dynamics by services over time

Trace Errors