# Mastra Observability
Observability is [[Mastra AI]]'s visibility layer over everything agents and workflows do, essential for debugging, cost control, and production reliability. It is a Mastra-specific implementation of general [[AI Observability]].
## Three signals
- **Tracing**: hierarchical spans recording inputs, outputs, token usage, and timing
- **Logging**: auto-correlated to traces
- **Metrics**: duration, token usage, cost
Backends include DuckDB, LibSQL, and ClickHouse, with external integrations (Langfuse, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
## References
- https://mastra.ai/docs/observability/overview
## Related
- [[Mastra AI]]
- [[AI Observability]]
- [[Mastra Evals]]
- [[Mastra Studio]]