What is API observability in Xano?
It is the request history, traces, debugger, audit trails and error logs built into every Xano backend. Every API request is recorded with its inputs, outputs, timing and the path it took through your logic, so you can see what the backend did, function by function, without adding a separate tool.
How do I find out why an API request failed?
Open the request in its history and follow the trace. Because Xano runs the whole backend, the trace lands on the failing function and step, not on a container ID. One click re-runs the recorded production inputs through the debugger, so you can step the stack statement by statement.
How is this different from infrastructure logs?
Infrastructure logs answer three layers down, in container logs and metrics, and leave the correlation to you. Xano records what your logic did: which endpoint, which function, which step, with which inputs. Errors are grouped by signature and mapped to the release that introduced them, so new failures stand out.
Can I trace what AI agents do?
Yes. Agent runs on Xano emit OpenTelemetry, so agent activity is traceable like any other workload: the run, then each tool call it made. Audit trails record every change to the workspace too, including who or what made it, when, on which branch, and what the change was.
Does Xano observe the infrastructure underneath my backend?
Observability covers what your backend does. For the Kubernetes infrastructure underneath, Autopilot right-sizes every pod, node and autoscaler to real usage, in place, inside your cluster, with no restarts. Together they cover the application and the cluster it runs on, without growing the DevOps team.