Local Tracing in the DataRobot CLI: Catch Issues Before Production
DataRobot, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
DataRobot adds local tracing to its CLI, putting an OpenTelemetry dashboard on localhost from the first line of code.
DataRobot added local tracing to its CLI, providing an OpenTelemetry dashboard on localhost from the first line of code so developers can debug agent behaviour before it reaches production.
The post describes building an agentic application as a loop: ask the agent a question, see how it responds, and investigate when something is off.
Most of the time it works, but failures are rarely caught locally, surfacing instead after deployment on a request that behaved fine until it did not. The costly part is the cycle of pushing a change, waiting for it to land, running the request and hunting for the answer. Local tracing collapses that loop.