Agent Observability: From Traces to Task Failure Attribution — Production Design with Go, Java, OpenTelemetry & Kubernetes
This article presents a production-grade observability design for agent systems, covering task modeling, trace propagation, lease/fencing/checkpoint mechanisms, OpenTelemetry instrumentation in Go and Java, MCP integration, Kubernetes collector setup, PromQL dashboards, Argo CD release correlation, and fault injection experiments for failure attribution.
