Agent operations
Running agents in production: tracing and observability, evaluation and red-teaming, sandboxed execution, and hosting.
| Tool | What it is | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| LangSmith | LangChain's framework-agnostic observability and evaluation platform for LLM applications and agents, providing run tracing, dashboards, prompt management and automated evals. Offers managed cloud, bring-your-own-cloud and self-hosted options. | 2026-10-22 |
| Langfuse | An open-source (MIT) agent evaluation and observability platform covering tracing, prompt management, datasets, experiments and evals, with a free self-hostable core. OpenTelemetry-native with 100+ integrations. | 2026-10-22 |
| Braintrust | A hosted observability, evaluation and gateway platform for LLM applications, offering multi-step agent tracing, LLM-as-a-judge and custom scorers, regression testing in CI and production monitoring. | 2026-10-22 |
| Arize Phoenix | An open-source AI observability and evaluation platform that traces model calls, retrievals, tool use and custom logic to debug agents. Built on OpenTelemetry and the OpenInference spec, runnable locally, self-hosted, on Kubernetes or via managed cloud. | 2026-10-22 |
| promptfoo | An open-source CLI and library for systematic LLM evaluation, prompt testing and AI security, running YAML-defined test cases across 50+ providers with automated scoring, plus red-teaming for prompt injection and data leakage. | 2026-10-22 |
| DeepEval | An open-source evaluation framework styled as Pytest for LLM applications, with 50+ research-backed metrics including LLM-as-a-judge, G-Eval and hallucination detection, plus synthetic data generation. | 2026-10-22 |
| E2B | An open-source cloud platform that runs one isolated microVM per agent session for executing AI-generated or untrusted code, with snapshots, shells, filesystems, browsing, networking and pause/resume. Supports both its own cloud and bring-your-own-cloud. | 2026-10-22 |
| Daytona | A sandboxed code-execution platform for AI-generated code and agent workflows, providing container-based sandboxes created in under 90ms, stateful persistent workspaces, environment snapshots and optional GPU compute. Available as a managed cloud with customer-managed compute. | 2026-10-22 |
| Modal | A serverless cloud for AI workloads that runs Python functions, model endpoints, batch jobs and isolated Sandboxes for executing untrusted agent code, with per-second billing and scale-to-zero autoscaling. | 2026-10-22 |
| Letta | A platform and open-source framework for building, hosting and running stateful agents with persistent memory, context management and tool execution. Agents can run in the managed cloud, a self-hosted app server, or fully local backends. | 2026-10-22 |