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title: "Monitoring & Observability"
type: docs
weight: 5
description: >
  Learn how to monitor, log, and trace the internal state of the MCP Toolbox.
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Understanding the internal state of your system is critical when deploying AI agents. Explore the sections below to configure your telemetry signals and route them to your preferred observability backends:

* **[Telemetry](telemetry/index.md)**: Learn how to configure logging levels and understand the core metrics and traces emitted by the Toolbox server.
* **[Export Telemetry](export_telemetry.md)**: Discover how to deploy and configure an OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector.
* **[SQL Commenter](sql_commenter.md)**: Propagate application context into database query logs by prepending SQLCommenter-format comments to executed SQL statements.