AI agents are opaque. Jaeger v2 + OTel GenAI conventions are the fix.
Andrew Kew
AI agents are distributed systems. They fan out across LLM calls, tool invocations, memory lookups, and multi-step reasoning loops — often asynchronously. But until recently, the observability tooling hadn't caught up. You'd get logs, maybe a dashboard, but no trace of what actually happened across a full agent run. That's the gap Jaeger v2 is positioned to close — and it's not a stretch. What actually changed in Jaeger v2 Jaeger v2, released in late 2024, didn't just add features. It replaced i