Overview
This tutorial will guide you through how to monitor and investigate controls in Galileo. By the end of this guide, you’ll know how to monitor the real-time control activity of all Log streams or drill down to understand how a control executed in a specific trace in a Log stream.Before you begin
This tutorial assumes that you have completed the following procedures:Monitor controls using charts in the Controls View
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Open the Log stream in the Galileo console
Navigate to your console and select your Log stream from the main menu.
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Navigate to the Controls View
Select the Trends tab. Select Default View, then select Controls View from the drop-down menu.
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Use the Controls charts to monitor real-time control activity across all agents

- Activity trend: The number of controls that executed in the selected time range, including deleted controls.
- Actions distribution: The distribution of actions that resulted when a control executed over the selected time range. When the evaluator detects that a query matches your control criteria, it directs your agent to perform one of the following actions:
deny: The agent blocks the request.steer: The agent modifies or redirects its behavior based on the instructions defined in the steering context of your control configuration. This action can include exception handling.observe: The agent executes the request. Depending on your control criteria, the agent may also log the request or raise a warning. This umbrella action includes theallow,log, andwarnactions.- Match rate: The number of controls that matched or did not match a query over the selected time range. A match occurs when the evaluator’s confidence score meets or exceeds the threshold set in your control configuration.
- Check stages: The number of controls that executed in the
preorpostmode. See Scope for more information on these modes. - Applies to: The number of executed controls that were configured for LLMs or tools.
Investigate how a control executed in a trace from the Traces tab
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Open the Log stream in the Galileo console
Navigate to your console and select your Log stream from the main menu. The Traces tab displays by default.
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Navigate to the Messages view and drill down into a span
Select a trace from the table to navigate to the Messages view. Select a control span, identified by the shield icon before the name of the span, to drill down for more information.
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Use the Controls tab to investigate how the control executed
