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Traces represent complete end-to-end request flows through your AI agents and workflows. Each trace contains one or more spans that represent individual operations. The Monitor pillar lets you view, filter, and deep-search traces to understand how your application behaves in production.

View traces

In Adaline, each project represents an AI agent or workflow. All traces sent to Adaline are associated with a project. Navigate to the Monitor section of your project to see all traces: Viewing traces in the Monitor pillar

Inspect a trace

Select any trace to view its details. Adaline provides two visualization modes:

Trace tree

The tree view shows the hierarchical structure of all spans within the trace — making it easy to understand parent-child relationships between operations: Viewing a trace in the Monitor pillar

Waterfall view

The waterfall view shows spans as a timeline, revealing concurrency and sequential dependencies at a glance: Viewing a trace in the Monitor pillar Click on any span to inspect its details — including input/output data, metrics, and metadata.

What each trace shows

When you select a trace, you can view:
SectionDetails
Trace tree / waterfallHierarchical or timeline view of all spans in the trace.
NameThe name of the trace.
Started atThe timestamp when the trace started.
Ended atThe timestamp when the trace ended.
StatusOverall trace status (success, failure, unknown).
Total durationEnd-to-end time for the complete trace.
Total costCumulative cost of all LLM spans in the trace.
Total tokensSum of input and output tokens across all LLM spans.
TagsThe tags of the trace.
AttributesThe attributes of the trace.
Session IDThe session ID of the trace.
Reference IDThe reference ID of the trace.
Trace object structure

Filter traces

Use filters to narrow down traces across large volumes of data. You can filter by time range, status, duration, cost, tags, attributes, and session ID — and combine multiple filters to zero in on exactly the traces you need. Filtering traces and spans in Adaline See Filter and Search Logs for the full guide on all available filters, common use cases, and best practices.

Next steps

Analyze Log Spans

Inspect individual operations within a trace.

Analyze Log Charts

View aggregated metrics and trends.