LangSmith Basics: Debugging and Tracing Your Chains

Posted on Thu 30 July 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, LangChain, LangSmith, Debugging, Tracing, Observability, Python, AI Engineering

LLM applications fail in ways that are hard to see. A chain returns a bad answer and you don't know whether the prompt was wrong, the retriever missed, or the model just hallucinated. LangSmith is how you look inside.

What LangSmith is

LangSmith is Anthropic's observability platform for LangChain — it …


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