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5 posts
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Claude Code OTel: What the Wire Emits and What /cost Hides
Claude Code emits OTel metrics and events; traces are still beta behind their own flag. What the wire carries per call, and the failure shapes /cost hides.
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LangSmith Cost in 2026: Real TCO vs Self-Hosted Alternatives
LangSmith's $39/seat sticker runs ~10.7x that in real TCO. A sourced teardown vs Langfuse self-host and a local-first DuckDB alternative, with real numbers and config.
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The taxonomy of agent failure: 13 named alerts beat 'anomaly detected' at 2am
Every AI observability vendor ships 'anomaly detected.' That's the wrong abstraction for autonomous agents. Here's the typed vocabulary we ship instead. 13 named failure modes, each with its own trigger, payload, and prescribed response.
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How to Monitor Claude Code with OTel (Before a $1,700 Bill)
Monitor Claude Code on your laptop in 5 steps: enable Anthropic's OTel telemetry, store spans locally, and alert on retry loops while the agent still runs.
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AI Agent Drift Detection: How to Spot It in Your Own Sessions
Catch agent drift with no embedding model and no labelled dataset. What to measure over your own session history, and which signals are worth alerting on.