--- title: AI Agent Debugging Setup: OpenTelemetry + Jaeger in... description: AI agents exhibit unpredictable behavior where identical requests can produce vastly different execution paths—one taking 10 seconds with 10 operations,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agent-debugging-setup-opentelemetry-jaeger-in-kubernetes-mlxbmoyri twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI Agent Debugging Setup: OpenTelemetry + Jaeger in Kubernetes | daily.dev og:description: AI agents exhibit unpredictable behavior where identical requests can produce vastly different execution paths—one taking 10 seconds with 10 operations,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agent-debugging-setup-opentelemetry-jaeger-in-kubernetes-mlxbmoyri og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mlXBmoYri.png og:image:alt: AI Agent Debugging Setup: OpenTelemetry + Jaeger in Kubernetes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Agent Debugging Setup: OpenTelemetry + Jaeger in Kubernetes **[DevOps Toolkit](https://daily.dev/sources/devops-toolkit)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI agents exhibit unpredictable behavior where identical requests can produce vastly different execution paths—one taking 10 seconds with 10 operations, another over a minute with 42 operations. OpenTelemetry tracing solves this by capturing the complete journey of agent requests through LLM calls, tool executions, and external services. Using OpenTelemetry's GenAI semantic conventions provides vendor-neutral observability that integrates AI traces with existing infrastructure traces (databases, APIs, message queues) in a unified view. This approach offers advantages over agent-specific tools like LangSmith by leveraging existing observability infrastructure and connecting AI operations to the broader distributed system context. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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