Problems / Agents and tools, easy

Tracing every agent step

Each step writes a trace span to an observability API capped at 1,200 a minute; agents make about 30 steps a second.

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Your goals

Success ≥ 95% of tasks, p99 ≤ 90 s.

The traffic

5 requests a second for 45 seconds: 100% task (writes).

The system

What each component does in this design, and what calls it. The simulator mimics each one from these settings.

ComponentIts job hereSettings
Load balancerLoad balancerTraffic enters here.Calls Agent API.Layer 4 balancers route by IP and port; layer 7 balancers read HTTP and can route by path or header.–
Agent APIApp serviceLoad balancer forwards to it.Calls Agent orchestrator.Little's law: throughput ≈ concurrency ÷ latency. 200 slots at 50 ms serve about 4,000 req/s.3 replicas × 500 slots · timeout 180 s
Agent orchestratorAgent orchestratorAgent API calls it.Calls Model, Agent tracing.An agent loops: think, call a tool, read the result, repeat until done.400 slots · 6 steps
ModelLLM endpointAgent orchestrator calls it.Latency has two parts: time to the first token, then a steady stream of tokens per second.300 streams
Agent tracingAgent tracingAgent orchestrator calls it.Agent traces record every model and tool call with inputs, outputs, tokens and timing.5000 slots · 1,200 calls/min

Hints

Try it first. Open one hint at a time if you get stuck.

Hint 1

30 × 60 = 1,800 spans a minute.

Hint 2

Agent work multiplies: tasks a second × steps per task = calls a second on every tool the loop uses.

One way to solve it

Raise the tracing quota (send spans asynchronously in production).

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