# Observability

The tracking and recording of what an AI system does on each run: inputs, outputs, steps, tool calls, cost and errors.

Some tools also record a model's visible reasoning. That is often a summary, and it does not always show what drove the answer.

Also called: Tracing, AI observability, LLM monitoring, Agent tracing, AgentOps

Kind of: AI operations

Often confused with: Explainability, Production monitoring

Related: Eval, Stack

Source: https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/observability (version 1.0, changed 2026-10-21)