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AI · April 29, 2026

Farol

AI agent observability. One decorator, that's it.

Farol launched on April 29, 2026 with 2 votes, #4,561 of 21,248 launches that month.

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What it does

AI agents fail silently and bill loudly. Farol tells you first. Add @trace to your agent and instantly get cost anomaly detection, full trace inspector, quality scoring, regression alerts, budget limits per agent, and a weekly digest email. No gateway. No proxy. No framework lock-in. Works with Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, LangChain, CrewAI, and more. Free tier · Open source SDK · From €20/mo

Monitor your AI agents automatically. One Python decorator tracks cost, latency, errors, and quality. Get alerts before your users do. Free tier, open source SDK.

Most developers find out their agent broke from an angry user. Farol tells you first. higher token costs after a prompt tweak last Tuesday. You noticed on Friday. from farol import trace @trace ( agent_name = "my-agent" , farol_key = "frl_..." ) def my_agent (task, run= None ): run[ "topic" ] = task # that’s it Product Farol tracks token spend per run and learns what's normal for each agent. The moment something costs 3× more than usual, you get an alert — before your cloud provider does. Set monthly budget limits and get notified the instant they're crossed. Open any run and see every tool call, LLM call, duration, and error reconstructed end to end. No log diving, no guessing. The trace…from usefarol.dev

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