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Try MLflow alongside Telemetry
Choose one MLflow workflow and test both systems with the same fixed dataset. Check which capabilities you still need before changing production monitoring.
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Inventory MLflow
MLflow GenAI traces and autologged model or tool steps
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Map one workflow
Telemetry has no detailed trace viewer. Keep MLflow for execution details and send approved results with a run or trace ID you have reviewed.
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Dual-run the fixture
Test one successful request, failed tool step, recovered retry, and terminal failure while checking the handoff between systems.
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Record the decision
Inventory required tracing, autologging, evaluation, prompt registry, experiment, judge, and deployment workflows.
How Telemetry is different
- MLflow has tools for traces, evaluation runs, prompts, and experiments. Telemetry queries structured application events.
- MLflow traces can capture inputs, outputs, intermediate steps, latency, token use, and tools. Telemetry has no trace waterfall or prompt viewer.
- Telemetry lets you join AI task results with product, account, billing, reliability, and release events.
When Telemetry is a good fit
- The main requirement is aggregate outcome and cross-product analysis rather than trace replay, prompt management, or experiment execution.
- Keep traces and evaluations in MLflow. Send selected scores and final task results to Telemetry.
- The team wants reviewed SQL dashboards that use the same event model across AI and the rest of the product.
Where each product is strongest
MLflow
- OpenTelemetry-compatible LLM and agent tracing with automatic integrations and detailed execution inspection.
- Offline and production-trace evaluation with built-in or custom scorers, experiment tracking, and result analysis.
- Versioned prompt registry and a broader ML lifecycle for teams that already use MLflow as an engineering system of record.
Telemetry
- Query AI results with SQL while keeping traces and prompts in your existing tools.
- Query agent quality and cost alongside API, job, database, billing, and product events.
- Choose event fields that exclude prompts, completions, tool arguments, retrieved documents, and scorer explanations.
Evaluation checklist
Test the decision with a real workflow
- 1Inventory required tracing, autologging, evaluation, prompt registry, experiment, judge, and deployment workflows.
- 2Compare one trace investigation and one release evaluation, including coverage, score version, cost, latency, and downstream outcome joins.
- 3Model the real hosting, storage, access, retention, export, upgrade, and current managed-service requirements before migration.
Migration path
Plan the query and event migration before changing tools
List the queries, alerts, exports, and retention you use today. Define the event fields they need and translate one query. Run both systems with the same test data. Check null handling, timestamps, and aggregates before moving more queries.
MLflow workflow
MLflow GenAI traces and autologged model or tool steps
Telemetry mapping
Telemetry has no detailed trace viewer. Keep MLflow for execution details and send approved results with a run or trace ID you have reviewed.
Dual-run validation
Test one successful request, failed tool step, recovered retry, and terminal failure while checking the handoff between systems.
MLflow workflow
MLflow evaluations, scorers, experiments, and prompt versions
Telemetry mapping
Evaluation outcome events with dataset, evaluator, prompt, model, and release versions; no built-in experiment or prompt-registry workflow.
Dual-run validation
Compare one frozen baseline and candidate with the same examples, scorers, thresholds, sampling, and evaluated-coverage denominator.
MLflow workflow
MLflow production monitoring and aggregate evaluation results
Telemetry mapping
Reviewed SQL over selected AI outcomes joined to accounts, billing, product usage, incidents, and releases.
Dual-run validation
Dual-run trace volume, failure rate, latency, cost, score coverage, and downstream acceptance over a fixed UTC window.
Try one workflow
Start with one backend workflow
Pick an API route, AI workflow, webhook, or job queue. Send structured events and query them before expanding coverage.
Category buying guide
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