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xinweihe

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founder of https://traceroot.ai - open-source observability and self-healing layer for AI agents. YC S25

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Thanks for the follow-up. Let me try to clarify!

When we say we "organize all logs, metrics, and traces", we mean more than just linking them together (which otel already supports). What we’re doing is:

- context engineering optimization: We leverage the structure among logs, spans, and metadata to filter and group relevant context before passing it to the LLM. In real production issues, it's common to see 10k+ logs, traces, etc. related to a single incident — but most of it is noise. Throwing all that at agents usually leads to poor performance due to context bloat see https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.03172. We're working on addressing that by doing structured filtering and summarization. For more details see https://bit.ly/45Bai1q.

- Human-in-the-Loop UI: For cases where developers want to manually inspect or guide the agent, we provide a UI that makes it easy to zoom in on relevant subtrees, trace paths, or log clusters and directly select spans to be included in the reasoning of agents.

The goal isn't just unification, it's scalable reasoning over noisy telemetry data, both automated and interactive.

Hope that clears things up a bit! Happy to dive deeper if useful.

Great question! Yes, we're actively building a golden test set of debugging scenarios with known root causes and failure patterns. This allows us to systematically evaluate and improve agent performance with every release. Contributions are very welcome as we expand this effort!

In the meantime, we lean on explainability, i.e. every agent output is grounded in the original logs, traces, and metadata, with inline references. So if the output is off, users can easily verify, debug, and either trust or challenge the agent’s reasoning by reviewing the linked evidence.

Good question! Your setup already covers a lot — but TraceRoot tries to go a bit further in a few areas:

In TraceRoot, we organize all logs, metrics, etc. around traces and build an execution tree. This structured view makes it much easier for our agent to reason through the large amount of telemetry data using context-aware optimizations. (We plan to support slack and notion integration as well.)

It’s not a one-off tool. TraceRoot is a live monitoring platform. It continuously watches what’s happening in prod. So when something breaks, the agent already has full team-visible context, not just a scratchpad session spun up in the moment.

Down the line, we're aiming for automatic bug detection and remediation - not just smarter copiloting, but proactive debugging workflows. The system also retains team-level memory of past bugs, fixes, and infra quirks, so the agent gets smarter over time.

We’ve open sourced a lot of the core. Would love to jam on this if you're up for it. Always down to trade ideas or even hack on something together!

Fair question. Here’s how TraceRoot is different.

- We don’t just stream raw logs/traces into an LLM, we build execution trees and correlate data across services and threads. That gives our agent causal context, not just pattern matching.

- It’s designed to debug real issues in production, where things are messy, not just dev or staging.

- We are aiming for automatic bug detection and remediation soon, not just copiloting, but a debugging agent that can spot regressions and trigger fixes proactively.

- We are working on persist historical incidents, fixes, and infra quirks, so the agent improves with each investigation, and doesn’t start from scratch every time.

Happy to dive deeper! Let me know if you have more questions.

I'm interested in trying agentmail for one of our internal agents, but I noticed you're still on a waitlist and the "contact us" and "contact sales" buttons don’t seem to be clickable.

Just wanted to flag in case it's a bug. Excited to try it once access opens up.

Super cool project — love the direction you're taking with simplifying MCP integration and tooling! The search layer between agent and servers is a clever abstraction to reduce cognitive + compute load. Also appreciate the IKEA curtain flex

Would love to see how this evolves toward more dynamic infra setups. Keep it up!