Free Lesson
Your agent traces are a corpus
Part of RAG: Retrieval Augmented Gathering
60 min
Sep 25, 2026 1:00 PM
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What you'll learn
Capture agent traces without vendor lock-in
Use a local daemon and OpenTelemetry to archive agent sessions in object storage you control.
Know where OpenTelemetry stops
See why OTel works for capture and interoperability, but not for storing and searching hours of agent prose.
Design a durable trace archive
Store raw traces plus versioned Parquet so your archive survives changes in agents, collectors, and backends
Make agent traces searchable
Learn the retrieval and cost tradeoffs behind indexing months of agent activity, then query a real trace archive.
Why this topic matters
Coding agents generate a rich record of what they read, tried, changed, and abandoned, but most of it disappears or gets reduced to metrics. Treating traces as a corpus preserves the reasoning context needed to debug failures, compare tools, and understand agent behavior. As agent usage grows, storing and retrieving that history becomes a core engineering problem.
