Observability7 min read
Building the Cost Ledger Before the Model: A Practical Guide
Then production went live, and the logs filled with a 40% increase in unexplained latency spikes.
- Map every AI call to a specific business action to make cost and impact verifiable.
- Use shadow tracing to prove output stability before enabling any write permissions.
- Separate token consumption from logic complexity to identify true performance bottlenecks.
