# Prove AI

> Prove AI is a self-hosted, open-source GenAI observability platform for AI engineers. We capture generative-AI telemetry on OpenTelemetry-native pipelines, monitor 80+ GenAI performance metrics in a unified dashboard, and help engineering teams debug production AI systems without vendor lock-in or proprietary SDKs.

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## Competitive Context

Prove AI is an alternative to Langfuse, Arize Phoenix, Helicone, OpenLLMetry, LangSmith, Datadog LLM Observability, Opik, and Braintrust.

## Product

- [Home — what Prove AI is and what it does](https://proveai.com/): Platform overview, target audience (AI engineers, DevOps, platform engineering teams), and the core capabilities including OpenTelemetry-native pipelines, Prometheus compatibility, latency distribution (p50/p95), token throughput, embedding-service health, and retrieval-pipeline health.
- [FAQs](https://proveai.com/faqs): Canonical question-and-answer reference covering what Prove AI does, how to self-host it, supported integrations, infrastructure requirements, and how it compares to closed-platform alternatives.
- [Manifesto](https://proveai.com/manifesto): Our position on AI observability — "you can't fix what you can't see" — and why structured GenAI telemetry is the missing layer between input and output.

## Company

- [About](https://proveai.com/about): Origin story, founding mission, and the user research with hundreds of AI engineers that shaped the product.
- [Contact](https://proveai.com/contact): Sales, partnerships, press, and general inquiries.
- [Book a meeting](https://proveai.com/book): Schedule a demo or technical conversation with the Prove AI team.

## Engineering content

- [Technical White Paper](https://proveai.com/blog/technical-white-paper): The detailed technical architecture of Prove AI — containerized deployments, AI-guided remediation, and observability pipeline design.
- [The Anatomy of a Generative AI Observability Stack](https://proveai.com/blog/the-anatomy-of-a-generative-ai-observability-stack): Reference architecture for AI observability covering infrastructure, model, and application layers.
- [OpenTelemetry — Comprehensive Observability from a Single Plane](https://proveai.com/blog/opentelemetry-comprehensive-observability-from-a-single-plane): How OpenTelemetry enables unified observability across AI systems.
- [Cost, Quality, and Safety: The New Signals of AI Observability](https://proveai.com/blog/cost-quality-and-safety-the-new-signals-of-ai-observability): The three new dimensions modern AI observability must answer beyond traditional uptime.
- [Foundations of AI Observability, Part 5: Agentic Debugging](https://proveai.com/blog/foundations-of-ai-observability-part-5-why-agentic-debugging-is-the-hardest-observability-problem): Why multi-step agent systems break traditional debugging assumptions.
- [The Compound Reliability Problem](https://proveai.com/blog/the-compound-reliability-problem-why-your-95-agent-is-failing-40-of-the-time): The mathematics of sequential agent reliability — why 95% step-level reliability yields ~60% end-to-end success.
- [Clean Trace, Wrong Output](https://proveai.com/blog/clean-trace-wrong-output-the-visibility-gap-nobody-talks-about): The visibility gap where execution traces look healthy but AI output is incorrect.
- [The Dashboard Is Green and Your System Is Broken](https://proveai.com/blog/the-dashboard-is-green-and-your-system-is-broken-why-ai-observability-requires-a-new-mental-model): Why AI observability requires a new mental model beyond traditional APM.
- [The Next Phase of AI Observability: From Insight to Action](https://proveai.com/blog/the-next-phase-of-ai-observability-from-insight-to-action): How AI observability is shifting from passive monitoring to active remediation.
- [Why AI Reliability Starts Long Before a Model Ships](https://proveai.com/blog/why-ai-reliability-starts-long-before-a-model-ships): How observability and governance work pre-deployment determines production reliability.

## Interviews & opinion

- [Stanford Just Put a Number on a Problem Every AI Team Has](https://proveai.com/blog/stanford-delm-why-ai-teams-keep-debugging-the-same-problem): Why Stanford's DeLM result — multi-agent tasks at roughly half the cost — points to memory, not smarter agents, as the real lever, and what that means for durable AI observability.
- [Greg Whalen on Engineering Trust Into the Future of AI](https://proveai.com/blog/greg-whalen-on-engineering-trust-into-the-future-of-ai): Smartech Daily podcast with Prove AI CTO Greg Whalen on production-grade trusted enterprise AI.
- [Navigating the Future of AI Governance & Fixing the Telemetry Problem in 2026](https://proveai.com/blog/navigating-the-future-of-ai-governance-and-fixing-the-telemetry-problem-in-2026-with-prove-ai-cto-greg-whalen): TechBullion interview with Greg Whalen.
- [Enterprises Are Making One Big Mistake With Generative AI](https://proveai.com/blog/greg-whalen-thinks-enterprises-are-making-one-big-mistake-with-generative-ai): Grit Daily — why enterprises must prioritize observability to move from prototype to production.
- [2026 Prediction: Why Better Telemetry Data Is Key to Debugging AI](https://proveai.com/blog/2026-prediction-why-better-telemetry-data-is-key-to-debugging-ai): Why painful debugging stems from incomplete, mutable, or poorly ordered system data — not bad models.
- [2026 and Beyond: A CTO's View on What's to Come](https://proveai.com/blog/2026-and-beyond-a-ctos-view-on-whats-to-come): Greg Whalen on the shift from AI experimentation to durable, scalable foundations.

## Community & code

- [GitHub — github.com/prove-ai](https://github.com/prove-ai): Open-source observability pipeline, quickstart guides, and code examples.
- [Quickstart Guide](https://github.com/prove-ai/observability-pipeline/blob/main/docs/guides/quick-start.md): Step-by-step install for the Prove AI observability pipeline.
- [Discord — discord.gg/te5Z6N4RkP](https://discord.gg/te5Z6N4RkP): Real-time community for AI developers running Prove AI.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/proveai)
- [X / Twitter — @ProveAITech](https://x.com/ProveAITech)
- [YouTube — @Prove_AI](https://www.youtube.com/@Prove_AI)

## Optional

- [Blog index](https://proveai.com/blog): Full archive of engineering posts, interviews, and opinion pieces.
- [Webinar — Navigating Multi-Agent Observability](https://proveai.com/webinar/navigating-multi-agent): Webinar on observability for multi-agent AI systems.
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