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Instrumenting AI Agents for the Agent Timeline: A Practical OpenTelemetry Guide

calendar_today June 29, 2026 person Dan Juengst domain honeycomb

The LLM is rarely the root cause of agent failures. This technical guide shows how to instrument AI agents using OpenTelemetry’s GenAI semantic conventions so they appear in Honeycomb’s Agent Timeline—including tool calls, multi-agent handoffs, and framework-specific SDKs—so you can debug what actually went wrong.

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