OpenTelemetry for AI: Tracing Every Token Through Your Pipeline
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A single AI request touches more systems than you think. The prompt leaves your application, hits a load balancer, reaches a provider API, triggers tokenization, runs through a model, streams back through your middleware chain, and lands in a response object. If anything goes wrong – a cost spike, a latency regression, a silent quality drop – you need to know exactly where in that chain the problem started. OpenTelemetry gives you that visibility, and NeuroLink’s OTEL integration makes it work f