JetBrains has introduced Tracy, an AI tracing library for the Kotlin and Java languages.
Announced March 11 and accessible from GitHub, Tracy helps developers trace, monitor, and evaluate AI-powered features directly from their Kotlin or Java projects, JetBrains said. The open-source Kotlin library provides a unified API to capture structured traces and helps developers debug failures, measure execution time, and track large language model (LLM) usage across model calls, tool calls, and custom application logic.
Tracy implements the OpenTelemetry Generative AI Semantic Conventions for span attributes and event naming, thus ensuring traces remain compatible with any OpenTelemetry-compliant back end. JetBrains noted the following specific uses for Tracy:
