--- title: "Observability articles and guides — Elva blog · Elva" description: "Observability for agent API traffic means knowing which agent made each call, under which key, and how it behaved. 4 guides, newest first." canonical: "https://getelva.ai/blog/tag/observability" lastModified: "2026-09-02T16:58:18.662Z" --- 1. [Blog](https://getelva.ai/blog.md) 2. Observability # Observability articles and guides Observability for agent API traffic means knowing which agent made each call, under which key, and how it behaved. Retries, latency cliffs, and failure patterns. These guides cover the tooling landscape and the numbers from 1.2 million tool calls through Elva’s gateway. 4 posts, newest first · Updated 2026-09-01 [ MCP Aug 31, 2026 MCP logging and observability tools, compared A researched map of how teams actually watch MCP traffic today: the protocol's own shift to OpenTelemetry, the observability platforms that added MCP tracing, and the gap between debugging a server and running one. 8 min read ](https://getelva.ai/blog/mcp-logging-and-observability-tools-compared.md)[ MCP Jul 14, 2026 MCP servers are infrastructure. Run them like it. Weekend demos die on Monday. What we learned running MCP servers for real agent traffic, and what changes when a tool call has an SLA. 8 min read ](https://getelva.ai/blog/mcp-servers-are-infrastructure.md)[ MCP May 22, 2026 23 tools, 4 agents, zero surprises Per-agent activity, tool-level latency, and catching the schema gap before Claude does. 7 min read ](https://getelva.ai/blog/23-tools-4-agents-zero-surprises.md)[ MCP Apr 16, 2026 What 1.2 million agent tool calls taught us about timeouts, retries, and the true cost of a vague error message Ninety days of production MCP traffic in numbers: retry storms, timeout cliffs, and why one ambiguous error string cost more than any outage did. 4 min read ](https://getelva.ai/blog/what-1-2-million-tool-calls-taught-us.md) ALL TOPICS [MCP9](https://getelva.ai/blog/tag/mcp.md) [Governance7](https://getelva.ai/blog/tag/governance.md) [AI Agents5](https://getelva.ai/blog/tag/ai-agents.md) [OpenAPI5](https://getelva.ai/blog/tag/openapi.md) [Contracts4](https://getelva.ai/blog/tag/contracts.md) [Engineering4](https://getelva.ai/blog/tag/engineering.md) [Observability4](https://getelva.ai/blog/tag/observability.md) [Product3](https://getelva.ai/blog/tag/product.md) [Infrastructure2](https://getelva.ai/blog/tag/infrastructure.md) ## Ship notes, monthly One email with what shipped and what we learned. Unsubscribe anytime. ## Ship APIs anything can call Humans, tests, partners, agents. One catalog, one contract, one place. [Sign up free](https://app.getelva.ai/signup) [Read the blog](https://getelva.ai/blog.md)