CourseAI Engineering · 0518 minPremium
Observability and cost
See what each request did and what it cost: one trace per turn with GenAI attributes, one instrumented choke point for every model call, metrics labelled by model and purpose, a price table, and the cost levers in the order to pull them: prompt caching, response caching, effort, routing and context size.
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What’s inside
- 1. One trace per chat turn
- 2. One choke point for every model call
- 3. A trap: spans and async generators
- 4. Metrics, labels and alerts
- 5. Pricing a call
- 6. Cost levers, in the order to pull them
- What breaks in production
- Exercises
- Check yourself