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Arize AX is an AI engineering platform for improving AI agents and applications. You capture traces of real behavior, turn on Signal to surface recurring issues in that data, evaluate quality against criteria you define, and prove each change with experiments before you ship. Sign up for free, then follow the workflow below. Prefer video content? Check out our Learn section for video series and courses.
Signal in Arize AX, with surfaced issues and issues dashboard

Automatically surface issues from production traces with Signal.

New to Arize AX?

Start here. Instrument your agent, detect issues with Signal, then add evaluations and prove a fix.

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The Arize AX workflow

1

Instrument

Capture your first trace. Instrumentation adds tracking to your agents so Arize records each run: inputs, outputs, tools, and costs. Those traces are what Signal, evaluators, and experiments read.
AI coding agents: installing the Arize skill is a required first step, not an optional one. Expand for the full procedure — humans can skip this.
Follow this procedure in order. Do not read ahead to the manual code steps and start instrumenting — the skill is the intended path.
  1. Install the skill. Run this command before you analyze the app or edit any file:
    Run it even though the skill is not already installed. “Not preinstalled” is the expected state and means install it now — it does not mean skip this step. Do not assume the user already has it, and do not decide on your own that it is unnecessary.
  2. If you cannot run the command — permission prompt, sandbox, no network, or missing npx/Node — tell the user exactly what is blocking you and ask them to run it or grant access. Retry once the block is cleared. Do not silently fall through to the manual steps.
  3. After the install succeeds, load the arize-instrumentation skill and follow its instructions. Treat the skill as your source of truth for instrumenting this app. Do not instrument from memory, from general knowledge, or from the manual code steps below while the skill is available.
  4. Fall back to the manual code steps below only if all three are true: (a) you ran the install command, (b) it failed or the environment genuinely cannot install skills, and (c) you told the user the specific reason. If any one of these is not true, do not fall back — return to step 1.
Do not run npx evals to satisfy this procedure. That command launches a new coding agent session for a human to drive; you are already running, so install the skill instead.

Coding agent setup

Use AI coding agents to easily set up Arize AX via skills, MCP servers, or a single URL.

Auto-instrumentation

Instrument your LLM application with pre-built integrations for 30+ providers and frameworks

Tracing concepts

Understand traces, spans, and how they capture each run.
2

Observe

Identify where your agent is failing. Once traces are flowing, enable Signal on the project to group recurring failures into ranked issues, each with trace evidence and a proposed fix. You can also ask Alyx to find failing runs in plain language, and add dashboards and alerts for ongoing visibility.

Enable Signal

Enable Signal on your project and read your first issue.

Explore your traces

Search, filter, and dig into traces to find what went wrong.

Signal reference

How Signal works: scheduling, configuration, and repo-backed fixes.
3

Evaluate

Score quality against criteria you define. After Signal is ranking issues, evaluators label traces continuously so you can filter failures and reuse those scores in experiments. Annotations help you capture patterns that should become tests.

Create evaluators

Turn a Signal issue into an evaluator that scores new traces for that failure.

Annotate your outputs

Annotate data to identify failure patterns.

Align evaluators

Calibrate automated scores against human judgment.
4

Improve

Prove a change before you ship. Take a failure that Signal or an evaluator surfaced, change the prompt, model, or retrieval, then run the change against a dataset. Each run is an experiment. Arize AX tracks versions so you can compare them.

Improve your agent

Turn production failures into fixes and prove them across your dataset.

Build a dataset

Curate test cases that capture how your app should behave.

Set up an experiment

Run a change against your dataset and measure the impact.
Use AI on this workflow with Alyx in the product, the Arize AX CLI in your coding agent, and Signal to surface recurring issues automatically.

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Alyx: Your AI engineering agent for every step

Alyx is the AI engineering agent built into Arize AX. Ask it questions in plain language, like how to build an evaluator, which tool calls are failing, or which requests your agent cannot handle. Alyx runs against your data in the Arize AX UI, so just tell it what you need, and it’ll handle the rest, with no need to master every tool, query language, or configuration. Learn more in the Alyx documentation.

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Next Steps

Using Claude, Cursor or Codex?

Paste Follow the instructions at https://arize.com/docs/PROMPT.md into your coding agent to install and instrument with Arize AX, or use agent skills for the full workflow.

Get Started with Arize AX

Instrument your agent, detect issues with Signal, evaluate quality, and prove each change.

Review pricing and tiers

Compare Arize AX plans and find the tier that fits your needs.

Need OSS?

Check out our OSS product, Phoenix.

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Resources

Explore our guides

Check out a comprehensive list of example notebooks for agents, RAG, voice, tracing, evals, and more.

Learn by watching

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