# Distributed Tracing

End-to-end tracing for complete visibility into your AI agent execution flows.

## Creating Traces

```typescript
const trace = await ants.trace.create({
  name: 'customer-support-agent',
  input: userQuery,
  metadata: {
    userId: 'user_123',
    sessionId: 'session_abc'
  }
})
```

## Trace Visualization

View complete execution paths:

```
Trace: customer-support-query (2.5s)
├─ validate-input (10ms)
├─ retrieve-context (200ms)
├─ llm-inference (2.0s)
└─ format-output (290ms)
```

## Next Steps

- [Metrics & Monitoring](/docs/aigovernance/airesilient/metrics)
- [Alerting](/docs/aigovernance/airesilient/alerting)