What an agent trace records
What it shows
A white strip recorder feeding out a ribbon made of separate segments; the green ribbon stands for the trace, one segment per step of work.
Its labels
- New: A trace is a collection of runs for one operation
- Each run is one unit of work, such as a model call
- OpenTelemetry marks tool arguments and results opt-in
The story
How an agent trace records each model call and tool call · 2 Nov 2026
An illustration is never a picture of what happened. Drawn on 2 Nov 2026.