Comparison
How AgentSpeed compares
Most agent-observability tools are tracing-first: built to debug a single run once something goes wrong. AgentSpeed is reliability-first. It tells you whether your agents are working right now, lets you prove it to customers, and keeps their data out of the picture. Here is the honest difference, without knocking anyone.
Side by side
Primary job
Tracing-first tools
Debug a single run in depth, usually after something broke.
AgentSpeed
Know whether your agents are healthy right now, and prove it.
Catching regressions
Tracing-first tools
You read traces from real traffic as issues surface.
AgentSpeed
Journey canaries exercise critical flows on a schedule, before users hit them.
Telling customers
Tracing-first tools
Rarely part of the product.
AgentSpeed
Hosted public status pages with 30-day uptime bars.
What gets stored
Tracing-first tools
Often full prompts and model outputs, to make traces richer.
AgentSpeed
Metadata only. Content fields are rejected at the API (see Privacy).
Run + span traces
Tracing-first tools
Yes, the core feature.
AgentSpeed
Yes, with per-step status, timing, and tokens.
Getting data in
Tracing-first tools
An SDK per language or framework.
AgentSpeed
One HTTP POST from anything; SDKs optional.
When a tracing-first tool is the better fit
If your main need is stepping through the exact prompts and tool I/O of one run, a tracing-first tool will go deeper there, and plenty of teams run both. AgentSpeed still gives you the trace timeline, with per-step status and timing. It just does not store the prompt and output text to get there.