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Last updated: Oct 07, 2026 05:23 UTC

Introduction

This page explains what AIO is, who it's for, and where to start.

AIO is Acceldata's observability product for applications that call large language models (LLMs) or run agents. You instrument your application, and AIO shows what it did: each conversation, each request, and each step inside a request. If you build or run LLM or agent applications, AIO helps you see how they behave and catch problems.

AIO organizes everything you see into these parts:

  • Projects scope your traces, evals, and rules. Every view in AIO shows one project over one time range.
  • Sessions are conversations. A session groups the traces that share a conversation ID.
  • Traces and spans are the OpenTelemetry data your application sends. A trace usually covers one unit of work, such as a chat turn, a workflow run, or a scheduled job.
  • Rules are per-project checks that evaluate the telemetry AIO captures.
  • Evals measure the quality of your application's output.

For definitions of these and other terms, see the Glossary.

How it works

  1. Sign in and open the Projects list. AIO opens at the Projects page, which lists the projects you can view. For each project, it shows totals for the selected time range, such as traces, sessions, tokens, and errors. The Projects page, showing a table of projects with their traces, sessions, tokens, errors, and status
  2. Create a project. A project holds your application's telemetry. To create one, you need permission to manage resources. For the steps, see Create a project.
  3. Connect your application.Create an API key for the SDK, then instrument your code with the Python SDK, acceldata-aio-tracer. The SDK sends OpenTelemetry data that's tagged with your tenant and your project. On the Projects page, the connection icon in a project's row opens that project's Connection info page. If you already use OpenTelemetry or OpenLIT, send traces through OpenTelemetry or OpenLIT instead.
  4. Explore your telemetry. Select a project name to open the project. Inside a project, the tabs are Overview, Sessions, Traces, Spans, and Rules. For details, see Explore traces. To learn how the menu, tabs, and time range work, see Find your way around.
  5. Check your application automatically. Set up rules to evaluate the telemetry in a project, and evals to measure output quality.

Next steps