Tracing Glossary
Browse 7 tracing terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
7 Tracing Terms
- AI Trace
- A trace or record showing the sequence of steps an AI request took through prompts, retrieval, tool calls, model invocations, and post-processing. AI traces...
- Blockchain Forensics
- The analysis of blockchain transaction history, wallet relationships, and on-chain behavior to investigate theft, laundering, fraud, or attribution. It often...
- Context Propagation
- The carrying of request-scoped metadata such as trace IDs, auth claims, locale, or tenant information across function boundaries, asynchronous tasks, threads,...
- LLM Trace
- A trace showing the full path of a large language model request through prompts, retrieval, model calls, tool interactions, and post-processing. LLM traces are...
- Model Trace
- A detailed record of how a model request was processed, including input assembly, retrieval steps, inference timing, tool interactions, and validation results....
- OpenTelemetry
- An open-source observability framework that provides a single set of APIs, SDKs, and tools for generating and collecting traces, metrics, and logs....
- Reasoning Trace
- A record or visible sequence of reasoning-related steps, intermediate thoughts, or problem-solving actions used to analyze how an AI system arrived at its...
Related Topics
- Ai (4 terms in common)
- Observability (2 terms in common)
- Standard (1 terms in common)
- Models (1 terms in common)
- Llms (1 terms in common)
- Reasoning (1 terms in common)
- Distributed Systems (1 terms in common)
- Forensics (1 terms in common)
- Blockchain (1 terms in common)
- Context (1 terms in common)