Debugging AI Agent latency with OpenTelemetry and Cloud Run: 80% improvement

Short summary

PlaybackIQ, an AI agent for soccer analysis, faced severe latency under match-day load. The team used OpenTelemetry tracing to identify bottlenecks in LLM calls and RAG retrieval, then migrated to Cloud Run for concurrent traffic. Result: 80% latency reduction in production.

• •Real case study: soccer analysis agent (PlaybackIQ) with text-to-speech and RAG pipeline suffering in production
• •Debugging method: OpenTelemetry tracing pinpointed LLM and data retrieval bottlenecks
• •Solution: Cloud Run deployment for concurrent traffic handling achieved 80% latency improvement

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