Why is my agent doing that? OTel 101: Live agent instrumentation

Too often, agent debugging still comes down to print statements and logs. The agent is the one piece of the stack nobody can see into, and the one piece that fails in ways nothing else does. It doesn't have to stay that way. OpenTelemetry already traces the rest of your stack, and it works for agents too.

In this session we'll add OpenTelemetry to a plain agent and walk through the resulting trace: which spans matter, which are noise, and how a specific span ties back to why the agent did what it did. Then we'll use Pydantic Logfire to see what your agent is doing once it's running in production. No prior OpenTelemetry experience needed.

A 30-minute session, with time for your questions at the end.