Observability

Helicone for tokenmaxxing

A clean feedback loop for where tokens are going, which calls are slow, and which experiments are worth keeping.

6.2K starsHelicone/helicone
674 forksGitHub metadata checked 2026-09-21
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What it does

Open-source LLM observability for monitoring, evaluation, experimentation, latency, requests, and usage behavior.

Why it belongs here

A clean feedback loop for where tokens are going, which calls are slow, and which experiments are worth keeping.

Best use case

Teams that need request logs, cost visibility, latency monitoring, experiments, and simple observability around LLM apps.

How to use it

Proxy or instrument calls, add request metadata, and use cost and latency views to find expensive workflows and bad experiments.

Limits

It helps identify problems, but cost fixes still come from routing, prompt changes, caching, and workflow design.

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Enterprise AI budgets break at the handoff to production

Express Computer interviews New Relic India's Ganesh Narasimhadevara on why AI bills keep climbing while the blended cost per million tokens has fallen over a year, from $18.40 in Q1 2025 down to $6.07 in Q1 2026.

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Cisco's Splunk adds Tokenomics to track coding-agent token spend

At Splunk .conf on Sept. 15, Cisco added a Tokenomics module to Splunk Agent Observability. It attributes token spend across AI agents and across employees' use of coding agents, naming Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.

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From tokenmaxxing to valuemaxxing

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Meta drops token counts from performance reviews

Meta's Maher Saba and Santosh Janardhan told staff in an internal memo that adoption dashboards and token counts are out of performance reviews; managers should weigh the difficulty and quality of shipped work instead.

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