---
title: "Tracing and debugging agents across systems with OpenTelemetry"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-07-01"
time: "11:10am-11:30am"
track: "Track M"
room: "Track M"
speakers: ["Chang Liu"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Track M"
scheduleRoom: "Track M"
scheduleLabels: ["Track M", "Track M", "sponsor", "confirmed"]
---
# Tracing and debugging agents across systems with OpenTelemetry

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 11:10am-11:30am
- Track/room: Track M · Track M
- Speaker(s): Chang Liu
- Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed

- Track: Track M
- Room: Track M
- Session type: sponsor
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
Understand what your agents are doing. Learn how to trace workflows across systems, debug issues, and uncover optimization opportunities using OpenTelemetry.

## Media Evidence
No related AI Engineer channel video found yet.

## Evidence Graph
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### Media Signals
No linked video, transcript, or slide source has been attached yet.

### Agent Reading Notes
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## Transcript Status
No official session recording transcript was found by exact title match on the AI Engineer YouTube channel during this run.

## People
- [[chang-liu]]

## Notes
- Pending transcript synthesis when an official recording or confirmed matching video is available.

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Tracing and debugging agents across systems with OpenTelemetry ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 11:10am-11:30am - Track/room: Track M · Track M - Speaker(s): Chang Liu - Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed - Track: Track M - Room: Track M - Session type: sponsor - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Understand what your agents are doing. Learn how to trace workflows across systems, debug issues, and uncover optimization opportunities using OpenTelemetry. ## Media Evidence No related AI Engineer channel video found yet. ## Evidence Graph This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[chang-liu|Chang Liu]] — Senior Product Manager at [[microsoft|Microsoft]].

### Topics Covered
- Topic links are pending transcript-backed classification.

### Derived Links And Source Material

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.