confident-trace vs Agentic Observability MCP
confident-trace is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑20.
confident-trace is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by confident-ai. No marketplace we read lists it any more. Agentic Observability MCP is an MCP server published by mdfifty50-boop. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-23. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  Agentic Observability MCP | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace confident-ai/confident-trace | Removed on 2026-10-20 Version: not stated Forks (GitHub): 2 Stars (GitHub): 15 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.1.1 Downloads/month (npm): 191 Downloads/week (npm): 32 Forks (GitHub): 1 Stars (GitHub): 0 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | confident-traceno longer listed · | Agentic Observability MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 15 | 0 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 2 | 1 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (agentic-observability-mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for | Not published | Not published |
| Licence | Not stated | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/confident-ai/confident-trace | github.com/mdfifty50-boop/agent-observability-mcp |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 7 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of confident-trace
Plugins still listed whose own names, descriptions, tools and skills are closest in meaning to it. Comparable, not endorsed.
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Turnkey observability for AI coding agents - captures sessions and exports to Datadog LLM Observability
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agent-observability io.github.KryptosAI/agent-observability
Trace AI agent execution: every tool call, every error, every dollar. Open source, local-first.
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Structured observability for AI agents. Trace steps, decisions, and errors. MCP server + CLI viewer.
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noveum ai.noveum/noveum
Trace, evaluate, and optimize your LLM, RAG, and agent apps with Noveum observability.
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All the tooling you need to add observability to Claude Code and your agents
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preflight io.github.newrelic-experimental/preflight
New Relic MCP server for observing AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.)
What each says it does
confident-trace
Skills for instrumenting AI applications with the confident-trace SDK and exporting raw OpenTelemetry traces to Confident AI.
Agentic Observability MCP
Agent tracing, cost tracking, anomaly detection for LLM agents
How to run each
confident-trace
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Agentic Observability MCP As a local MCP server: npm package
claude mcp add --transport stdio agentic-observability -- npx -y agentic-observability-mcpCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
Neither one's marketplaces publish the settings it asks for.
What it can do: confident-trace · What it can do: Agentic Observability MCP · Compare two other plugins
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