I got tired of not knowing what my AI agents were doing, so I built a tiny observability tool
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technical depth 7
novelty 6
actionability 8
community 5
strategic 3
personal 10
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Practical observability tool for AI agents, highly actionable.
Summary
The author built Otterscope, a single Go binary with SQLite that ingests OpenTelemetry traces from AI agents, presenting runs as logical units with step-level detail, provider-aware cost tracking, and integrated evals including a compare view for prompt changes. It avoids hosted services or heavy self-hosted stacks like ClickHouse, targeting small-scale side projects with a local-first design that handles the messy OpenTelemetry GenAI convention migration by supporting both old and new attribute layouts.