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Otterscope: A lightweight, self-hosted observability tool for AI agents

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Developer Remdore built Otterscope, a single Go binary that logs AI agent runs to a SQLite file. It uses OpenTelemetry to capture traces, showing costs and steps per run without external services. The tool also integrates evals directly into production traces for easy comparison.

Meridian48 take
While Otterscope solves a real pain for solo devs, its reliance on OpenTelemetry and SQLite may limit scalability for larger teams.
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