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LLM Observability & Reliability Interview Guide
Monitor generative AI systems across traces, quality, tools, retrieval, latency, cost, safety, and drift.
Trace the system
Link request → prompt/version → retrieval → model → tools → retries → output → user outcome.
Operational metrics
Track availability, queueing, TTFT, inter-token latency, end-to-end latency, tokens, cost, tool errors, retrieval latency, and fallbacks.
Quality telemetry
Sample groundedness, task completion, safety, corrections, escalation, abandonment, and judge/human scores.
Release discipline
Version every moving part, canary changes, define rollback triggers, and preserve production failures as tests.