# Debugging our AI search assistant with agent tracing

DevFeed: [Debugging our AI search assistant with agent tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/debugging-our-ai-search-assistant-with-agent-tracing-24095.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.sentry.io/debugging-our-ai-search-assistant-with-agent-tracing/>)

Author: Dominik Buszowiecki; Shaun Kaasten

Published: 2026-09-11T09:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Sentry Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/sentry-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-search.md>), [agent observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agent-observability.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debugging.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tracing.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [errors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/errors.md>), [eval](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/eval.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [sentry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sentry.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>)

## AI overview

Sentry engineers describe how they debugged the Search Query Assistant, which converts natural-language prompts into Sentry Syntax queries. They used evals for performance measurement and AI Conversation tracing to investigate failures, including a bug involving custom numerical attributes that caused queries to return no results.

## Source excerpt

See how Sentry engineers used AI Conversations to debug a natural language search assistant and fix a tricky query generation bug.