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# Observability

Mastra's observability system gives you visibility into every agent run, workflow step, tool call, and model interaction. Agent behavior depends on model responses, prompts, tools, memory, and workflow state, so observability helps you inspect runtime decisions from day one.

Start with the trace-correlated pages:

- [**Usage**](https://mastra.ai/docs/observability/tracing/overview): Inspect the span hierarchy, inputs, outputs, token usage, timing, and trace context for an execution.
- [**Logging**](https://mastra.ai/docs/observability/logging): Forward structured log entries from your application and Mastra internals, correlated to traces automatically.
- [**Feedback**](https://mastra.ai/docs/observability/feedback): Store ratings, comments, corrections, and other review signals linked to traces and spans.
- [**Storage**](#storage): Choose backends for persisted traces, logs, metrics aggregation, and feedback queries.

Use [**Metrics**](https://mastra.ai/docs/observability/metrics/overview) to analyze aggregate usage, performance, and cost data derived from spans. No additional instrumentation is required. Use [**Configuration**](#configuration) to enable the signals and exporters your application needs.

## When to use observability

- Debug unexpected agent behavior by inspecting the full decision path, tool calls, and model responses.
- Monitor latency across agents, workflows, and tools to identify bottlenecks.
- Track token consumption and estimated cost over time to control spending.
- Diagnose workflow failures by tracing execution through each step.
- Compare agent performance before and after prompt or model changes.

## How the pieces fit together

When observability is configured, every agent run, workflow execution, tool call, and model interaction produces a [span](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/traces/#spans). Mastra organizes related spans into traces that show the full request lifecycle as a hierarchical timeline.

When a span ends, Mastra extracts duration, token counts, and cost estimates without any extra code. These metrics power the aggregate dashboards in [Studio](https://mastra.ai/docs/studio/observability).

Every `logger.info()`, `logger.warn()`, or `logger.error()` call within a traced context is tagged with the current trace and span IDs. You can move from a log entry directly to the trace that produced it.

Feedback records human review signals such as ratings, comments, and corrections. Feedback can be linked to traces and spans, then queried with the same observability store used for metrics.

These records share correlation fields such as trace ID, span ID, entity type, and entity name. You can use them to move from a metric spike to its traces, logs, and related feedback.

## Quickstart

Install `@mastra/observability` and storage backends that support traces and metrics:

**npm**:

```bash
npm install @mastra/observability @mastra/libsql @mastra/duckdb
```

**pnpm**:

```bash
pnpm add @mastra/observability @mastra/libsql @mastra/duckdb
```

**Yarn**:

```bash
yarn add @mastra/observability @mastra/libsql @mastra/duckdb
```

**Bun**:

```bash
bun add @mastra/observability @mastra/libsql @mastra/duckdb
```

Then configure observability in your Mastra instance. The following example uses composite storage to route observability data to DuckDB (which supports metrics aggregation) while keeping everything else in LibSQL:

```ts
import { Mastra } from '@mastra/core/mastra'
import { LibSQLStore } from '@mastra/libsql'
import { DuckDBStore } from '@mastra/duckdb'
import { MastraCompositeStore } from '@mastra/core/storage'
import {
  Observability,
  MastraStorageExporter,
  MastraPlatformExporter,
  SensitiveDataFilter,
} from '@mastra/observability'

export const mastra = new Mastra({
  storage: new MastraCompositeStore({
    id: 'composite-storage',
    default: new LibSQLStore({
      id: 'mastra-storage',
      url: 'file:./mastra.db',
    }),
    domains: {
      observability: await new DuckDBStore().getStore('observability'),
    },
  }),
  observability: new Observability({
    configs: {
      default: {
        serviceName: 'mastra',
        exporters: [
          new MastraStorageExporter(), // Persists observability events to Mastra Storage
          new MastraPlatformExporter(), // Sends observability events to Mastra platform (if MASTRA_PLATFORM_ACCESS_TOKEN is set)
        ],
        spanOutputProcessors: [
          new SensitiveDataFilter(), // Redacts sensitive data like passwords, tokens, keys
        ],
      },
    },
  }),
})
```

It enables tracing, log forwarding, and metrics. Mastra also supports external tracing providers like Langfuse, Datadog, and any OpenTelemetry-compatible platform. See [Maintaining Studio access](#maintaining-studio-access) to keep Mastra Studio access while sending data to an external provider.

## Configuration

Observability is configured once on your Mastra instance and applies across traces, logs, and metrics.

### Basic config

An observability config usually contains:

- `serviceName`: The service identifier attached to exported observability data.
- `exporters`: One or more destinations for traces, logs, and derived metrics.
- `spanOutputProcessors`: Transformations that run before spans are exported.

### Maintaining Studio access

When you add external exporters, keep `MastraStorageExporter` for Studio observability and/or `MastraPlatformExporter` for hosted Mastra platform observability.

The following example shows only the observability config. Configure storage separately.

```ts
import { Observability, MastraStorageExporter, MastraPlatformExporter } from '@mastra/observability'
import { ArizeExporter } from '@mastra/arize'

export const observability = new Observability({
  configs: {
    production: {
      serviceName: 'my-service',
      exporters: [
        new ArizeExporter({
          endpoint: process.env.PHOENIX_COLLECTOR_ENDPOINT,
          apiKey: process.env.PHOENIX_API_KEY,
        }),
        new MastraStorageExporter(),
        new MastraPlatformExporter(),
      ],
    },
  },
})
```

### Flushing in serverless environments

In serverless environments, flush observability exporters before the runtime pauses or exits:

```ts
await mastra.observability.flush()
```

Use external storage in serverless environments instead of local file storage. See [Storage](#storage) for storage selection and routing.

### Multi-config setup

Use multiple configs when different environments or request types need different exporters or sampling behavior. Select the active config at runtime with `configSelector`.

```ts
import { Mastra } from '@mastra/core'
import { Observability, MastraStorageExporter } from '@mastra/observability'
import { LangfuseExporter } from '@mastra/langfuse'

const storageExporter = new MastraStorageExporter()
const langfuseExporter = new LangfuseExporter()

export const mastra = new Mastra({
  observability: new Observability({
    configs: {
      development: {
        serviceName: 'my-service-dev',
        exporters: [storageExporter],
      },
      production: {
        serviceName: 'my-service-prod',
        exporters: [storageExporter, langfuseExporter],
      },
    },
    configSelector: () => process.env.NODE_ENV || 'development',
  }),
})
```

For trace sampling, see [Tracing](https://mastra.ai/docs/observability/tracing/overview).

## Storage

Storage determines which observability signals persist, which queries are available, and whether metrics aggregation works. Use a dedicated observability store instead of your primary application store.

### Signal support

Storage support depends on the signal and workload. `MastraStorageExporter` can persist traces to ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MongoDB, and LibSQL. Metrics require an analytics-capable store:

- DuckDB: Recommended for local testing and development.
- ClickHouse: Recommended for high-volume production observability.
- `PostgresStoreVNext`: Supports metrics when the observability domain is enabled. Always provide a time range to avoid full partition scans.
- Mastra platform: Use `MastraPlatformExporter` for hosted observability without managing the backend yourself.

For the complete provider list and supported tracing strategies, see [Mastra Storage exporter](https://mastra.ai/docs/observability/integrations/exporters/mastra-storage). Use composite storage to route the `observability` domain separately when your primary store doesn't support observability or when the workload needs independent scaling.

### Local development

For local development, use:

- `LibSQLStore` for primary application storage
- `DuckDBStore` for the `observability` domain
- `MastraStorageExporter` for local Studio access

### Production deployment

Observability traffic is usually more write-heavy than the rest of the application. In production:

- Use `MastraStorageExporter` with ClickHouse for the `observability` domain when you keep observability in your own storage.
- Use `MastraPlatformExporter` for hosted Mastra platform observability instead of managing the backend yourself.
- Use composite storage when observability needs a different backend or scaling policy from your primary application data.

For backend compatibility details and exporter batching behavior, see [Mastra Storage exporter](https://mastra.ai/docs/observability/integrations/exporters/mastra-storage).

## Mastra platform

For hosted traces, logs, and metrics across projects and deploys, see [Observability on Mastra platform](https://mastra.ai/docs/mastra-platform/observability).

## Next steps

- [Tracing](https://mastra.ai/docs/observability/tracing/overview)
- [Logging](https://mastra.ai/docs/observability/logging)
- [Metrics](https://mastra.ai/docs/observability/metrics/overview)
- [Feedback](https://mastra.ai/docs/observability/feedback)
- [Mastra Studio](https://mastra.ai/docs/studio/observability)
- [Automatic metrics reference](https://mastra.ai/reference/observability/metrics/automatic-metrics)
- [Mastra platform observability](https://mastra.ai/docs/mastra-platform/observability)