--- title: What is autoinstrumentation? | daily.dev description: Autoinstrumentation automatically captures telemetry from LLM applications and AI agent workflows without requiring developers to add custom monitoring code.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-autoinstrumentation--2zutlegxf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What is autoinstrumentation? | daily.dev og:description: Autoinstrumentation automatically captures telemetry from LLM applications and AI agent workflows without requiring developers to add custom monitoring code.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-autoinstrumentation--2zutlegxf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2zUTlEGXF.png og:image:alt: What is autoinstrumentation? 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. # What is autoinstrumentation? **[portkey](https://daily.dev/sources/portkey)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Autoinstrumentation automatically captures telemetry from LLM applications and AI agent workflows without requiring developers to add custom monitoring code. It operates at the SDK, agent framework, or gateway layer, collecting prompts, responses, token usage, latency, and tool calls. For multi-step AI agents, it links individual model calls into a single trace showing the full workflow. This is especially valuable in production where manual logging is inconsistent and debugging LLM failures requires structured, contextual data. Portkey's AI Gateway implements autoinstrumentation at the infrastructure layer, centralizing observability across providers and models without code changes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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