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title: "Welcome"
description: "Agent engineering platform for tracing, evaluation, and monitoring"
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## What is PandaProbe?

PandaProbe is an open-source agent engineering platform that gives you deep observability into AI agent applications. Use it to trace, evaluate, monitor and debug your AI agents in development and production.

## Why PandaProbe?

PandaProbe is a unified platform for the full agent development lifecycle — from first run to continuous improvement. 

PandaProbe provides:

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    Capture LLM calls, MCP calls, tool usage, workflow steps, and custom agent logic as structured traces and spans.
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    Aggregate related traces under a session to understand the full lifecycle of an agent.
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    Score traces and sessions to measure quality, reliability, regressions, and agent behavior over time.
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    Schedule recurring evaluations so new traces and sessions are checked automatically in production.
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## Three layers of tracing

1. **LLM Providers** — zero-code wrappers for major providers
2. **Agent Frameworks** — automatic integrations for agent frameworks
3. **Manual instrumentation** — full control when you need it

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    Trace your first LLM call in under 2 minutes
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    Understand the three layers of tracing
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    Install the SDK with optional extras
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