Observability

How to see what your agents are doing: what they cost, what’s running, why a process exists, and how to ship it all to Grafana Cloud.

Tool	Answers	Surface
Usage analytics (burndown)	“What am I spending: by day, project, model?”	i in the TUI · ainb burndown
abtop	”What agent processes are running right now?”	t in the TUI · ainb abtop
witr	”Why is this process running: what spawned it?”	w in the TUI · ainb witr
OpenTelemetry → Grafana Cloud	”Ship metrics/logs/traces off-box to dashboards”	ainb otel setup

Local vs remote

The first three are local, in-the-moment views: open them in the TUI and read the answer now, no setup. OpenTelemetry is the off-box, historical path: a local Grafana Alloy collector forwards Claude Code / Codex telemetry to Grafana Cloud for cost dashboards, latency percentiles, and trace retention.

Start with the OpenTelemetry guide for the Grafana Cloud setup and example dashboards.