Kern

OpenTelemetry

Kern supports observability through OpenTelemetry, integrating seamlessly with popular tracing and monitoring platforms.

Observability helps us understand, debug, and improve AI agents. Kern supports observability through OpenTelemetry, integrating seamlessly with popular tracing and monitoring platforms.

Key Benefits

  • Trace: Visualize and analyze agent execution flows.
  • Monitor: Track performance, errors, and usage.
  • Debug: Quickly identify and resolve issues.

OpenTelemetry Support

Kern offers first-class support for OpenTelemetry, the industry standard for distributed tracing and observability.

  • Auto-Instrumentation: Automatically instrument your agents and tools.
  • Flexible Export: Send traces to any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend.
  • Custom Tracing: Extend or customize tracing as needed.
Note

OpenTelemetry-compatible backends including Arize Phoenix, Langfuse, Langsmith, Langtrace, Logfire, Maxim, MLflow, OpenLIT, Traceloop, and Weave are supported by Kern out of the box.