Why it matters
Traditional observability answers one question: is the system up? Phil Hetzel from Braintrust argues that question is not the right one for agents. An individual agent trace can exceed a gigabyte. A single span can hit 20 megabytes. The data is semistructured, packed with unstructured text, and still arrives in real ti
My takeaway: Traditional observability answers one question: is the system up? Phil Hetzel from Braintrust argues that question is not the right one for agents. An individual agent trace can exceed a gigabyte. A single span can hit 20 megabytes. The data is semistructured, packed with unstructured text, and still arrives in real ti