Logging & Metrics
Logging
- Log connection lifecycle, tool calls, and provider responses (redact PII).
- Include
sessionId, provider name, model, latency, token counts, and stage. - Use
createLoggingHooksfor structured logs; add your own hooks for domain-specific events.
Metrics
- Record histograms for STT/LLM/TTS durations (
llmrtc.stt.duration_ms,llmrtc.llm.duration_ms,llmrtc.tts.duration_ms). - Track time-to-first-token (
llmrtc.llm.ttft_ms) for latency regressions. - Use gauges for active sessions and connections (
llmrtc.sessions.active,llmrtc.connections.active). - Count errors by component (
llmrtc.errorswith tags like{ component: 'stt' }). - For playbooks, track
llmrtc.playbook.stage.duration_ms,llmrtc.playbook.transitions, andllmrtc.playbook.completions.
Sampling & retention
- Sample verbose logs in production; keep top-level metrics unsampled where possible.
- Apply shorter log retention for payload-heavy logs; keep numeric metrics longer for trend analysis.
- Ensure retention and access controls match your data privacy policy.
Dashboards (suggested)
- Latency: P95 STT/LLM/TTS and turn duration, by provider/model.
- Reliability: error rate by component and provider, reconnection counts.
- Playbooks: average stage duration, transitions per stage, completion rate per playbook.