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Covers why traditional APM falls short for non-deterministic agent workloads, then walks through installing the AI Observability integration, adding OpenLIT to a CrewAI-based agent with a single `openlit.init()` call, forwarding OpenTelemetry traces and metrics via OTLP to Grafana Cloud, and exploring prebuilt dashboards for latency, token usage, cost tracking, and error analysis. Also highlights benefits like behavioral troubleshooting, cost optimization, and vendor-neutral instrumentation via OpenTelemetry standards. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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