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Measure whether the AI is good and trace where it fails.
OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry is a vendor-neutral standard and ecosystem for collecting traces, metrics and logs.
Think of it like
Think of OpenTelemetry like testing and telemetry for any production service: quality must be measured, not guessed.
Real life
Teams use OpenTelemetry to decide whether a new release is safer, faster or more useful.
SRE lens
Instrument AI model and tool spans alongside existing service telemetry.
Remember thisOpenTelemetry is a vendor-neutral standard and ecosystem for collecting traces, metrics and logs.