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AI pipeline tracing

Definition

AI pipeline tracing is following a request through every stage of an AI workflow, such as retrieval, prompt building, model calls, tools and post-processing, as one connected trace.

In more detail

Pipelines fail between stages as often as inside them. A single trace shows where time and cost go, which stage returned bad data, and how an early mistake carried into the final answer.

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