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Meghan Murphy

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Meghan Murphy is a Software Engineer II on the Agents and Context Team.

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Your agents have been keeping receipts: turning Elastic Agent Builder's built-in OTel traces into token cost dashboards in Kibana
Agentic AIOperations

July 28, 2026

Your agents have been keeping receipts: turning Elastic Agent Builder's built-in OTel traces into token cost dashboards in Kibana

Your Agent Builder agents already log every LLM call as an OTel trace, and that agent tracing data can power token cost dashboards and budget alerts before one runaway conversation quietly wrecks your month.

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By: Meghan Murphy and Pablo Neves Machado

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