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As organizations rapidly scale their use of large language models (LLMs), many teams are adopting LiteLLM to simplify access to a diverse set of LLM providers and models. LiteLLM provides a unified interface through both an SDK and proxy to speed up development, centralize control, and optimize LLM-powered workflows. But introducing a proxy layer adds abstraction, making it harder to understand how requests are processed.

We’ve covered how to get LangChain traces up and running. But even when everything’s instrumented, traces can still go missing, show up half-broken, or look nothing like what you expected. This guide is about what happens after setup, when traces exist, but something’s off.

LLM-powered agents are reshaping software, but when they fail, troubleshooting is guesswork. Lumigo’s new AI Agent Observability, now in beta, gives you visibility into the entire lifecycle of your agents, from prompt to response to internal decision logic. Built for modern AI workloads, this feature is designed to help engineers monitor, debug, and optimize agents running on platforms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-source models.

‍ We're not witnessing the end of observability, we're witnessing its evolution into something far more powerful. The observability industry is having its Moneyball moment. Just like Billy Beane revolutionized baseball by using data analytics to compete with teams that had vastly larger budgets, observability is undergoing a fundamental transformation.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly become a cornerstone of modern IT operations. Yet, despite its transformative potential, many IT professionals harbor apprehensions about integrating AI into their workflows. This growing AI fear, while understandable, often stems from misconceptions and a lack of clarity about AI's role and capabilities. This discussion aims to address and debunk common fears associated with agentic AI.

When Checkly launched, it was the first of its kind, enabling developers to monitor complex workflows easier than ever using the automation tooling (Playwright, Terraform, etc) they already knew and loved. We’ve helped detect and resolve issues for 1000s of companies—ranging from monitoring crucial log-ins, to purchasing products, to setting up client instances for millions of monthly users But what about the simpler stuff?

In cybersecurity, defense-in-depth is a fundamental principle – you never rely on a single security measure to protect your systems. The same philosophy applies to application monitoring. No single monitoring approach, no matter how sophisticated, can capture every possible failure mode of your application. This is why layered monitoring isn't just a best practice – it's essential risk mitigation.