What OpenTelemetry Can Actually Tell You About Your AI Agents
The distance between what OpenTelemetry was built for and what AI governance is asking of it shows up in a single number. Distributed tracing descends from Dapper, the 2010 Google paper that gave the industry the vocabulary of traces and spans. Dapper sampled one trace in 1,024. That is ample for finding a latency regression, because a regression recurs and the next sample catches it.