Tracing the Agentic Loop: Monitoring Multi-Round-Trip MCP Calls With OpenTelemetry

The upcoming release of the July 28 Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification completely revolutionized how developers build AI tools. By shifting from stateful, long-lived connections to a streamlined, stateless HTTP engine, we finally gained the ability to run AI tools as scalable, modern microservices. However, statelessness introduces a massive operational headache: observability .