Sentry's Span Hierarchy Exposed a Silent Retry in My 5-Agent Pipeline. One Agent Took 22.6s, the Others Took 5.

DEV · Sarvar Nadaf · 1d ago · 1 min · 0 views

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How gen_ai.invoke_agent spans revealed one tool was dumping 7x more output than its siblings. The fix: pagination + a token budget guard. 42% output reduction, 21% faster agent.

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