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2026-08-10
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Silent Retries and Agent Latency: What Sentry's Span Hierarchy Taught Us About Multi-Agent Observability
A developer named Sarvar discovered a hidden retry in a five-agent pipeline using Sentry's span hierarchy, where one agent took 22.6 seconds due to retry logic while others took 5 seconds. The case hi…