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Trace a Tool Call End to End

Follow one request across the whole stack.

Following One Call

A single tool call may touch your server, a database, and an API. Tracing stitches those hops into one timeline so you see the whole journey. 🧵

Traces and Spans

A trace is the full request; a span is one step inside it. Each span records a name, a start, and a duration, and spans nest like a tree.

All lessons in this course

  1. What to Measure in a Server
  2. Structured Logs You Can Search
  3. Trace a Tool Call End to End
  4. Alert on Failures & Abuse
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