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...

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