Using Cloud Trace on Kubernetes Engine

Why it matters

Agent latency spans model calls, retrieval, tools, and runtime infrastructure. Distributed tracing is how an operator attributes time and failures across those boundaries without guessing.

What to practise

Deploy the sample workload, generate traffic, inspect traces, and follow latency through the service topology before tearing the environment down.

How it fits

Apply subsection 4.2’s latency decomposition and failure-triage Bites. Keep evidence from runtime infrastructure distinct from faults in agent logic or an external tool.