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The best observability & evals (managed) for AI agents

Hosted tracing, monitoring, and evaluation platforms for LLM and agent systems. Ranked by community traction, with live GitHub stars and what each is best at.

Short answer: the best observability & evals (managed) for AI agents by community traction is Arize Phoenix / AX (★ 0), followed by Braintrust and Comet Opik.

1. Arize Phoenix / AX

★ 0 ·

Open-source LLM/agent observability (Phoenix) plus Arize AX, the commercial platform for production monitoring and online evals. Best for agent builders.

2. Braintrust

★ 0 ·

Eval-first AI platform unifying evaluations, tracing/logging and prompt playground for shipping quality AI products. Best for agent builders.

3. Comet Opik

★ 0 ·

Open-source LLM tracing, LLM-as-a-judge evals and experiment management from Comet, with a managed cloud. Best for agent builders.

Cloud AI-quality platform on top of the open-source DeepEval framework: test management, tracing and analytics. Best for agent builders.

LLM/agent observability inside Datadog's APM suite, billing only on LLM spans with built-in online/offline evals. Best for agent builders.

6. Future AGI

★ 0 ·

All-in-one evaluate/observe/improve platform for LLM and agent apps: tracing, evals, simulations, gateway and guardrails. Best for agent builders.

7. Galileo

★ 0 ·

Enterprise AI evaluation + observability platform where offline evals become production guardrails (now part of Cisco). Best for agent builders.

8. HoneyHive

★ 0 ·

OpenTelemetry-based observability and evaluation platform purpose-built for production AI agents. Best for agent builders.

9. LangSmith

★ 0 ·

LangChain's managed tracing, evaluation and prompt-engineering platform for LLM and agent apps. Best for agent builders.

10. Langfuse Cloud

★ 0 ·

Open-source-core LLM observability with tracing, evals, prompt management and playground, offered as a managed cloud. Best for agent builders.

11. Langtrace

★ 0 ·

OpenTelemetry-native, open-source tracing and metrics for LLM, vector-DB and framework calls, with a hosted cloud. Best for agent builders.

12. Lunary

★ 0 ·

Lightweight open-source LLM observability, prompt management and analytics, tuned for chatbots and RAG. Best for agent builders.

13. Maxim AI

★ 0 ·

End-to-end GenAI platform to simulate, evaluate and observe agents, with prompt versioning and online evals. Best for agent builders.

14. PromptLayer

★ 0 ·

Prompt management + LLM observability platform for versioning prompts, running evals and tracing agents in production. Best for agent builders.

15. Traceloop

★ 0 ·

LLM reliability platform built on OpenLLMetry, an OpenTelemetry-native tracing layer for LLM apps. Best for agent builders.

16. W&B Weave

★ 0 ·

Weights & Biases' LLM observability and evaluation toolkit that auto-traces calls and runs LLM-judge scorers. Best for agent builders.

Best observability & evals (managed) — FAQ

What is the best observability & evals (managed) for AI agents?

By community traction, Arize Phoenix / AX (★ 0) leads the observability & evals (managed) in our directory. Open-source LLM/agent observability (Phoenix) plus Arize AX, the commercial platform for production monitoring and online evals.

What is the best open-source observability & evals (managed)?

Arize Phoenix / AX is the most-starred open-source option; Braintrust and Comet Opik are strong runners-up.

Which observability & evals (managed) has the most GitHub stars?

Arize Phoenix / AX, at ★ 0 (live count).

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