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How Morningstar Stopped Flying Blind on Production Agents with LangSmith

LangChain · Aug 27, 2026 · Engineering Insights

Morningstar deployed LangSmith to gain observability into production AI agents after flying blind

“Without LangSmith, we didn't have a common language for observability and tracing. And so debugging becomes anecdotal.”

Morningstar's AI accelerator team adopted LangSmith to replace ad-hoc Splunk queries for tracing production agents embedded in Morningstar Direct and a live MCP server. The move addressed a visibility gap where teams had no shared observability language, making debugging anecdotal. While a real-world enterprise agentic deployment story, this is primarily a vendor case study with limited novel signal.

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