A client's AI features were burning through their OpenAI budget 3x faster than projected. Adding OpenTelemetry's GenAI semantic conventions revealed the problem wasn't what anyone expected.
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- A client was confident about how their services talked to each other. Then we instrumented the system with OpenTelemetry and found out what was actually happening.
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