The Traceloop Blog

Understanding how your large language model performs requires more than basic monitoring. This article explains how OpenTelemetry and Traceloop’s OpenLLMetry provide complete visibility into LLM operations by capturing token usage, latency, and cost within unified traces. It outlines how developers can instrument their applications, visualize metrics in real time, and use Traceloop’s OpenTelemetry-native platform to simplify observability and performance optimization.

Debugging RAG pipelines without proper visibility can feel like guesswork. This post explains how end-to-end tracing turns that process into data-driven debugging, revealing exactly what happens at every stage of a RAG workflow, from query to retrieval to generation. It highlights why LLM observability platforms matter and how Traceloop delivers complete, out-of-the-box trace visibility that helps teams pinpoint errors, reduce latency, and optimize RAG performance.

Effective LLM monitoring requires visibility into token usage, latency, and SLOs at the user and feature level. This post explains how to instrument applications with OpenTelemetry and use observability platforms like Traceloop to capture, visualize, and optimize these metrics for cost and performance control.

LLM performance can degrade quietly over time. This post explains how to set up automated alerts for relevance and other quality metrics by combining continuous LLM evaluation with monitoring tools like Grafana, Datadog, or Traceloop to catch issues before users notice.

Traces and spans reveal how every part of an LLM application behaves, from API calls to database queries. This post explains how these observability concepts help debug failures, monitor performance, and track costs through detailed, end-to-end visibility.

Evaluating a RAG pipeline requires measuring retrieval accuracy, generation quality, and operational efficiency. This post explains key metrics such as Context Precision, Context Recall, Faithfulness, and Answer Relevancy, and how modern observability platforms like Traceloop can automatically track and visualize them.