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- ML observability with LLM support
- Embedding drift detection
- Performance dashboards
- Automatic monitors and alerts
- Open-source Phoenix companion
Updated March 10, 2026
Agenta is an open-source platform for prompt engineering, evaluation, and experimentation. It provides a prompt playground, version control for prompts, A/B testing, and evaluation pipelines. Teams can iterate on prompts collaboratively, track experiments, and deploy optimized prompts to production.
Arize AI provides an ML and LLM observability platform for monitoring model performance in production. For LLM applications, Arize offers trace visualization, prompt analysis, embedding drift detection, and retrieval evaluation. Their open-source Phoenix library provides local tracing and evaluation. Arize helps teams identify quality issues, debug failures, and continuously improve AI system performance.
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