{"slug": "dont-observe-audit-your-ai-agent", "title": "Dont Observe – Audit Your AI Agent", "summary": "ZizkaDB launched a monitoring platform that stores causal lineage and time-travel state for AI agents, positioning itself against Laminar, LangSmith, Langfuse, and Arize Phoenix. The company claims its product is the only one of the five to offer causal lineage, time travel over logged state, native drift baselines, free self-hosting under AGPL, and first-party EU AI Act mapping, scoring itself 5/5 versus 2 for Laminar, 2 for LangSmith, 1–2 for Langfuse, and 2 for Arize Phoenix. ZizkaDB logs from Python, TypeScript, LangChain, CrewAI, LiveKit voice agents, MCP, and REST, and is available via Docker Compose self-hosting or a managed cloud with single-tenant VPC deployment.", "body_md": "Two ways to run ZizkaDB\n\nExplore the dashboard your team gets — self-host the OSS stack or use managed cloud with Fleet.\n\nDocker Compose on your infra. Activity, Behavior, Reports, and Suggestions out of the box.\n\nWhy ZizkaDB\n\nProduction agents need operational data — not just logs. ZizkaDB monitors behavior so your team can correct it.\n\nSame incident. Without ZizkaDB you guess. With it you see the exact decision trail.\n\nFor teams building with agents\n\nLog from Python, TypeScript, LiveKit voice agents, MCP, or REST. One API key per agent — no heavy infra project.\n\nPython SDK, TypeScript SDK, LangChain, CrewAI, LiveKit voice, MCP, or REST. Self-host with Docker or use managed cloud.\n\nPrompt change broke behavior? Replay the full session, trace the decision chain, find root cause.\n\nSingle-tenant VPC deployment with Fleet dashboard, workshops, and dedicated support.\n\nTrust and security\n\nPricing\n\nFull monitoring and session replay on every plan.\n\nCompare\n\nLaminar, LangSmith, Langfuse, and Phoenix trace spans. ZizkaDB stores causal lineage, time travel over logged state, and native drift baselines.\n\n| Capability | Laminar | LangSmith | Langfuse | Arize Phoenix | ZizkaDB | \n|---|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Causal lineage (why()-style, not span tree) | ~ | ~ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | \n| Time travel (state at T) | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | \n| Native drift/baseline | ~ (rule-based) | ✗ | ✗ (explicit gap) | ✓ (strongest) | ✓ | \n| Free self-hosting | ✓ (Apache 2.0) | ✗ (Enterprise only) | ✓ (MIT) | ✓ (ELv2, free but not OSI) | ✓ (AGPL) | \n| EU AI Act mapping | ✗ | ✓ (first-party) | ~ (third-party writeups; EU region only) | ✗ | ✓ (first-party + EU-incorporated) | \n| Total | 2 | 2 | 1–2 | 2 | 5/5 | \n\n~ = partial support. Verify competitor docs before external debates.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dont-observe-audit-your-ai-agent", "canonical_source": "https://db.zizka.ai/", "published_at": "2026-10-12 12:08:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-12 12:14:04.039964+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "mlops", "developer-tools", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["ZizkaDB", "Laminar", "LangSmith", "Langfuse", "Arize Phoenix", "LangChain", "CrewAI", "LiveKit"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dont-observe-audit-your-ai-agent", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dont-observe-audit-your-ai-agent.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dont-observe-audit-your-ai-agent.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dont-observe-audit-your-ai-agent.jsonld"}}