Glossary

Execution Trace

Also called: Execution Log, Trace Log

A chronological record of the steps, decisions, tool invocations, inputs, outputs, and state transitions that occur during the execution of an AI system, agent, or workflow.

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Related terms

Distributed Tracing

An observability technique that tracks requests as they flow across multiple distributed services to measure latency, diagnose failures, and analyze system behavior.

Logging

The practice of recording application, model, and system events to support debugging, monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational analysis.

AI Observability

The practice of monitoring, tracing, and analyzing AI systems to understand their behavior, performance, reliability, and operational health in production.

Tool Invocation

The act of executing an external tool or function call with specified parameters as directed by an AI agent.

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