Chapter 6 · Practice 1 of 4
Trace every model and tool call with the same request id
Why it matters
"The bot gave a weird answer yesterday" cannot be investigated unless you logged the call. Trace every model and tool call under one request or conversation id.
For each call, record:
- model id and prompt version
- input and output token counts
- latency and cost
- stop reason
- tool calls and their results
For agents, keep the whole chain of steps as one trace, so you can see where a task went wrong.
With this in place you can replay the exact call, add it to your eval set and confirm the fix.