Use cases

How Sutrace fits real teams.

Six concrete shapes — the four signal surfaces, plus the compliance angle and the entry-level hardware kit.

• AI engineers / platform engineers building autonomous workflows

  Agent-payable observability — your agent runs it, pays for it, and reads from it

  Let an AI agent provision a Sutrace workspace, pay for it programmatically (x402, ACP, UCP), and stream the data it produces back to itself. Three SKUs — per-device, per-trace, per-call — all metered, all machine-payable.

• AI engineers / CISOs

  AI agent observability — watch every agent, every token, every prompt under one dashboard

  Hard budget caps, on-host prompt redaction, multi-provider routing visibility, and prompt-injection telemetry for teams shipping LLM agents in production. EU residency by default.

• AI founders / CTOs / platform leads

  AI agent spend monitor pilot — 30 days to find the runaway calls

  A fixed-scope pilot for teams shipping OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, or coding-agent workflows who need cost, latency, and budget alerts before the provider invoice arrives.

• engineering teams using coding agents

  Claude Code monitoring — track coding-agent sessions, tokens, cost, and failures

  Monitor Claude Code and other local coding-agent sessions with Sutrace's agent CLI, then roll usage into the same dashboard as production LLM calls.

• CTOs, DPOs, vendor-risk owners, security and compliance leads at SaaS vendors selling into regulated EU enterprises

  Observability for NIS2, DORA, EU AI Act, and IEC 62443 supplier-cascades

  When your customer is a regulated entity in energy, manufacturing, finance, or healthcare, their compliance obligations cascade onto you. Sutrace is the EU-resident observability backbone designed to survive supplier-cascade audits without rewriting your stack.

• Plant engineers, controls integrators, ops teams evaluating industrial observability before committing to a rollout

  The $99 ESP32 demo kit — real industrial signals on a dashboard in 30 minutes

  An ESP32-S3 bench kit that proves the wiring story end-to-end — 4-20 mA sensors, dry contacts, I2C, MQTT, EU-resident dashboard. From box-open to first datapoint in half an hour.

• DevOps / customer success

  A status page that auto-reflects monitored reality

  Most public status pages are PR pages that say "all systems operational" while half the regions are on fire. The fix is architectural, not editorial. Here's how Sutrace does it.

• Industrial mid-market

  Industrial monitoring for the mid-market — retrofit, don't rip and replace

  How a 5–100-person industrial shop replaces fragmented Siemens/Rockwell/Ignition tooling with one Sutrace dashboard, without ripping out the existing PLCs.

• AI founders / platform engineers

  LLM cost dashboard — see spend by project, agent, model, and route

  A practical LLM cost dashboard for teams that need token spend, latency, errors, budget alerts, and model breakdowns before the provider invoice arrives.

• SRE / platform engineers

  OpenTelemetry backend — OTel-first, not OTel-bolt-on

  A native OTLP backend for traces, metrics, and logs with cardinality cost attribution before ingest. EU residency by default. No proprietary agents required.

• platform engineers / AI infrastructure teams

  OpenTelemetry GenAI observability — standard LLM telemetry without vendor lock-in

  Use OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions to send model, token, latency, error, provider, and agent spans into Sutrace while keeping an export path open.