The State of MCP observability: Observable.tools — Alex Volkov and Benjamin Eckel, W&B and Dylibso
The increasing prevalence of Machine Communication Protocol (MCP) agents is creating an observability blind spot for developers. As agents utilize more tools via MCP, understanding their end-to-end execution becomes challenging. This talk introduces observable.tools as a manifesto to drive a community conversation around standardized, vendor-neutral MCP observability, advocating for the adoption of OpenTelemetry (otel) to address this growing issue.
World's Fair 2025 17 min