THE LUNARY FIELD GUIDE

Find the right home
for your AI stack.

Compare tools. Plan your move.
Build with confidence.

Written by Lunary. Built to help you choose.

YOUR NEXT STACKField notes / 01
See the whole workflow

From the first prompt to the final answer.

Know the tradeoffs

Hosting, collaboration, cost, and control.

Keep your options open

Your data. Your models. Your next move.

A better fit starts with better questions.
01 / COMPARE

Good tools. Different strengths.

No scorecards with a predetermined winner. Just the decisions worth making before you commit.

LangSmith

Tracing, evaluation & the LangChain ecosystem

Langfuse

Open-source observability & prompt workflows

Helicone

AI gateway & request observability

02 / BUILD

Start with the work you do.

A useful tool should fit the way you ship. Explore the workflows that matter to your team.

Choosing observability for AI agents

The best agent observability shows why the task failed.

Choose LLM observability for AI agents by tool execution, trace context, retries, task outcomes, and cost per successful task. Compare a practical shortlist.

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Choosing LLM evaluation tools

Choose an evaluation tool that changes your release decision.

Compare LLM evaluation workflows with a practical rubric for datasets, baseline comparisons, human review, production failures, and prompt testing.

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Choosing prompt management tools

Manage prompts like changes your users will notice.

Compare prompt management tools by versioning, application retrieval, testing, collaboration, and incident reproduction—not just an editor feature list.

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Lunary for AI engineers

Go from a failed run to a fix you can explain.

Use Lunary to inspect model and tool runs, debug customer conversations, test prompt changes, and build an evidence-based AI engineering workflow.

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Lunary for product teams

Understand what customers experience with your AI.

Use conversation context, feedback, and prompt review to help product and engineering teams understand AI failures and measure meaningful improvements.

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Lunary for platform teams

Give every AI team a trace they can trust.

Build a reliable LLM observability foundation with Lunary: instrumentation standards, OpenTelemetry mapping, data controls, ingestion health, and deployment validation.

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Lunary + MCP

Bring Lunary docs into your editor. Trace the tools you build.

Connect the official Lunary Docs MCP server to your editor and learn how to instrument MCP tool execution separately with Lunary SDK or OpenTelemetry.

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03 / MOVE

Make your next move a considered one.

Export what matters, preserve your history, and validate the new setup before you switch.

PUT IT TO WORK

Your next release.
A little more certain.

Trace a real workflow. Understand what happened. Make the next version better.