Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
In this discussion at F5 AppWorld 2026, Buu Lam delves into Trace3's historical focus on healthcare with Aaron Zink & Paul Scuba, highlighting the importance of stability in application delivery and the strategies for integrating new technologies like AI. They emphasize a service-first approach and collaboration between development and operations teams to optimize healthcare solutions.
Key topics:
- Evolution of healthcare solutions at Trace3
- Importance of stability in application delivery
- Integrating AI into healthcare technology
- Collaboration between technical teams
- Service-first approach to technology deployment
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In this discussion at F5 AppWorld 2026, Buu Lam delves into Trace3's historical focus on healthcare with Aaron Zink & Paul Scuba, highlighting the importance of stability in application delivery and the strategies for integrating new technologies like AI. They emphasize a service-first approach and collaboration between development and operations teams to optimize healthcare solutions.
Key topics:
- Evolution of healthcare solutions at Trace3
- Importance of stability in application delivery
- Integrating AI into healthcare technology
- Collaboration between technical teams
- Service-first approach to technology deployment
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![Agentic Observability: Monitoring AI Traffic with F5 NGINX & OpenTelemetry
AI agents are fundamentally changing infrastructure traffic — and traditional load balancers are flying blind. In this demo, we show how to gain deep, real-time visibility into AI/MCP traffic natively using F5 NGINX and OpenTelemetry — with zero backend code changes.
Using NGINX JavaScript (NJS) at the proxy layer, we parse JSON streams in real time to extract tool names, client identities, and target MCP servers. Combined with OpenTelemetry and the golden signals (latency, throughput, error rates), you get a comprehensive observability layer for agentic AI infrastructure — exportable to any OTel-compatible backend.
🔗 Get the code and try it yourself: [Ihttps://github.com/nginx/nginx-mcp-js/tree/main]
🔗 MCP Blog: [https://blog.nginx.org/blog/introducing-agentic-observability-in-nginx-real-time-mcp-traffic-monitoring]
Timestamps:
0:00 – Introduction & the AI traffic problem
0:22 – Why AI agents are unpredictable (fan-out behavior)
0:46 – Three critical blind spots: delivery, UX, and observability
1:36 – The NGINX solution: native Layer 7 MCP inspection
2:07 – How it works: NJS parsing + OpenTelemetry golden signals
2:51 – Demo walkthrough: installation & NGINX config
3:12 – Extracting MCP metadata and mapping to OTel spans
3:53 – Running the load generator to simulate AI traffic
4:00 – Grafana dashboard overview
4:19 – Troubleshooting: isolating slow tools
4:46 – Identifying rogue AI clients by identity
5:05 – Monitoring backend MCP server health
5:32 – Wrap-up and next steps
Notes:
- Contributed by: Akash Ananthanarayanan
- Related Article: None
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👋 Chase Abbott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaseabbott1 Agentic Observability: Monitoring AI Traffic with F5 NGINX & OpenTelemetry](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PydaFJirjj0/mqdefault.jpg)







