Testing & Observability - Ensemble Edge

Testing Strategy

Test Pyramid

        /\
       /  \      E2E Tests (few)
      /____\
     /      \    Integration Tests (some)
    /________\
   /          \  Unit Tests (many)
  /____________\

Unit Tests: Test individual agents Integration Tests: Test ensembles end-to-end E2E Tests: Test full user journeys

Unit Testing Agents

Basic Agent Test

// agents/company-enricher/agent.test.ts
import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach } from 'vitest';
import { TestConductor } from '@ensemble-edge/conductor/testing';

describe('company-enricher agent', () => {
  let conductor: TestConductor;

  beforeEach(async () => {
    conductor = await TestConductor.create();
    await conductor.loadProject('./');
  });

  it('should enrich company data', async () => {
    const result = await conductor.executeAgent('company-enricher', {
      company_name: 'Anthropic',
      include_news: false
    });

    expect(result).toBeSuccessful();
    expect(result.output.company_data).toMatchObject({
      name: expect.any(String),
      description: expect.any(String),
      industry: expect.any(String)
    });
  });

  it('should cache on second call', async () => {
    const result1 = await conductor.executeAgent('company-enricher', {
      company_name: 'Anthropic'
    });

    const result2 = await conductor.executeAgent('company-enricher', {
      company_name: 'Anthropic'
    });

    expect(result1.output.from_cache).toBe(false);
    expect(result2.output.from_cache).toBe(true);
  });

  it('should handle failures gracefully', async () => {
    conductor.mockOperation('scrape-primary', {
      failed: true,
      error: 'Timeout'
    });

    const result = await conductor.executeAgent('company-enricher', {
      company_name: 'Anthropic'
    });

    expect(result).toBeSuccessful();
    expect(result.operations['scrape-fallback'].executed).toBe(true);
  });
});

Mocking Operations

describe('company-enricher with mocks', () => {
  it('should work with mocked operations', async () => {
    const conductor = await TestConductor.create();
    await conductor.loadProject('./');

    // Mock search
    conductor.mockOperation('search', {
      output: {
        AbstractURL: 'https://anthropic.com'
      }
    });

    // Mock scrape
    conductor.mockOperation('scrape-primary', {
      output: {
        body: '<html>Anthropic is an AI safety company</html>'
      }
    });

    // Mock AI extraction
    conductor.mockOperation('extract', {
      output: {
        name: 'Anthropic',
        description: 'AI safety company',
        industry: 'Artificial Intelligence'
      }
    });

    const result = await conductor.executeAgent('company-enricher', {
      company_name: 'Anthropic'
    });

    expect(result).toBeSuccessful();
    expect(result.output.company_data.name).toBe('Anthropic');
  });
});

Testing Error Paths

describe('company-enricher error handling', () => {
  it('should retry failed operations', async () => {
    const conductor = await TestConductor.create();
    await conductor.loadProject('./');

    let callCount = 0;
    conductor.mockOperation('search', () => {
      callCount++;
      if (callCount < 3) {
        return { failed: true, error: 'Timeout' };
      }
      return {
        output: { AbstractURL: 'https://anthropic.com' }
      };
    });

    const result = await conductor.executeAgent('company-enricher', {
      company_name: 'Anthropic'
    });

    expect(result).toBeSuccessful();
    expect(callCount).toBe(3);  // Retried twice
  });

  it('should use fallback on persistent failure', async () => {
    const conductor = await TestConductor.create();
    await conductor.loadProject('./');

    conductor.mockOperation('search', {
      failed: true,
      error: 'Service unavailable'
    });

    conductor.mockOperation('scrape-primary', {
      failed: true,
      error: 'Cannot connect'
    });

    const result = await conductor.executeAgent('company-enricher', {
      company_name: 'Anthropic'
    });

    expect(result.operations['scrape-fallback'].executed).toBe(true);
  });
});

Integration Testing Ensembles

Basic Ensemble Test

// ensembles/process-invoice.test.ts
import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
import { TestConductor } from '@ensemble-edge/conductor/testing';

describe('process-invoice ensemble', () => {
  it('should process valid invoice end-to-end', async () => {
    const conductor = await TestConductor.create({
      env: {
        STRIPE_API_KEY: process.env.STRIPE_API_KEY
      }
    });
    await conductor.loadProject('./');

    const result = await conductor.execute('process-invoice', {
      invoice: {
        id: 'INV-001',
        amount: 100,
        customer_email: 'test@example.com'
      }
    });

    expect(result).toBeSuccessful();
    expect(result.output.processed).toBe(true);
    expect(result.output.payment_id).toBeDefined();
    expect(result.output.confirmation_sent).toBe(true);
  });

  it('should reject invalid invoice', async () => {
    const conductor = await TestConductor.create();
    await conductor.loadProject('./');

    const result = await conductor.execute('process-invoice', {
      invoice: {
        id: 'INV-002',
        amount: -100  // Invalid
      }
    });

    expect(result).toBeSuccessful();
    expect(result.output.processed).toBe(false);
    expect(result.output.errors).toContain('Invalid amount');
  });
});

Observability Configuration

Conductor provides Cloudflare-first observability with structured logging, metrics via Analytics Engine, and optional OpenTelemetry export.

Configuration in conductor.config.ts

// conductor.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from '@ensemble-edge/conductor'

export default defineConfig({
  observability: {
    // Logging configuration
    logging: {
      enabled: true,
      level: 'info',  // 'debug' | 'info' | 'warn' | 'error'
      format: 'json', // JSON for Workers Logs indexing

      // Fields to automatically include in all logs
      context: ['requestId', 'executionId', 'ensembleName', 'agentName'],

      // Sensitive fields to redact (replaced with [REDACTED])
      redact: ['password', 'apiKey', 'token', 'authorization', 'secret'],

      // Events to log automatically
      events: [
        'request',        // HTTP requests
        'response',       // HTTP responses
        'agent:start',    // Agent execution start
        'agent:complete', // Agent completion
        'agent:error',    // Agent errors
      ],
    },

    // Analytics Engine metrics
    metrics: {
      enabled: true,
      binding: 'ANALYTICS', // Must match wrangler.toml
      track: [
        'ensemble:execution',  // Ensemble duration/success
        'agent:execution',     // Agent duration/success
        'http:request',        // HTTP request stats
        'error',               // Error counts
      ],
    },

    // Optional: External observability (Datadog, Honeycomb, etc.)
    opentelemetry: {
      enabled: false,
      endpoint: 'https://api.honeycomb.io',
      headers: { 'x-honeycomb-team': '${HONEYCOMB_API_KEY}' },
      samplingRate: 1.0,
    },

    // Track AI token usage for cost analysis
    trackTokenUsage: true,
  },
})

Setting Up Analytics Engine

Add to your wrangler.toml:

# Analytics Engine for metrics
[[analytics_engine_datasets]]
binding = "ANALYTICS"
dataset = "conductor-metrics"

Then create the dataset in Cloudflare Dashboard:

Go to Workers & Pages → Analytics Engine
Click Create dataset
Name it conductor-metrics

Telemetry vs Observability

Observability (logging, traces) is for debugging—understanding how your code executed. Telemetry is for analytics—tracking business metrics for billing, dashboards, and trend analysis.

Use Case	Tool
Debug failures, trace execution	`logger`, observability config
Track costs, revenue, conversion	telemetry operation

For example, in a payment agent: use logger to debug failures, use telemetry to track daily revenue and success rates.

Logging in Agents

Every agent receives a pre-configured logger and metrics recorder in its execution context:

// scripts/my-agent.ts
import type { AgentExecutionContext } from '@ensemble-edge/conductor'

export default async function myAgent(context: AgentExecutionContext) {
  const { input, logger, metrics, executionId, requestId } = context

  // Structured logging - automatically includes execution context
  logger.info('Processing started', {
    itemCount: input.items.length,
    category: input.category
  })

  const startTime = Date.now()

  try {
    const result = await processItems(input.items)

    // Log completion
    logger.info('Processing complete', {
      processedCount: result.length,
      durationMs: Date.now() - startTime
    })

    // Record custom metric
    metrics.record('items.processed', result.length, {
      category: input.category
    })

    return result
  } catch (error) {
    // Error logging with stack trace
    logger.error('Processing failed', error, {
      itemCount: input.items.length,
      attemptedAt: Date.now()
    })

    // Record error metric
    metrics.recordError('ProcessingError', input.category)

    throw error
  }
}

Log Levels

Level	Use For	Example
`debug`	Detailed debugging	Input/output values, cache decisions
`info`	Normal operations	Start/complete events, important milestones
`warn`	Potential issues	Rate limits, fallback usage, slow queries
`error`	Failures	Exceptions, validation errors, API failures

YAML-Based Observability

Agent-Level Logging

# agents/sensitive-processor/agent.yaml
name: sensitive-processor
operation: code
config:
  script: scripts/sensitive-processor

# Agent-level logging overrides
logging:
  level: debug  # More verbose for this agent
  redact:
    - password
    - ssn
    - creditCard
  events:
    onStart: true
    onComplete: true
    onError: true

# Agent-level metrics
metrics:
  enabled: true
  custom:
    - name: records.processed
      value: output.count
      type: counter

Ensemble-Level Logging

# ensembles/user-workflow.yaml
name: user-workflow

# Ensemble-level logging configuration
logging:
  level: info
  trace:
    enabled: true
    includeInputs: true
    includeOutputs: false  # Don't log large outputs
    redactInputs:
      - password
      - creditCard

# Ensemble-level metrics
metrics:
  enabled: true
  custom:
    - name: workflow.completed
      condition: success
      type: counter
    - name: workflow.duration
      value: _executionTime
      type: histogram

flow:
  - name: validate
    agent: validator
    input:
      data: ${input.userData}

  - name: process
    agent: processor
    input:
      validated: ${validate.output}

output:
  success: ${process.output.success}
  data: ${process.output.result}

Querying Metrics

Analytics Engine SQL API

Query your metrics using the Cloudflare dashboard or API:

-- Average ensemble execution time (last 24 hours)
SELECT
  blob1 as ensemble_name,
  AVG(double1) as avg_duration_ms,
  MIN(double1) as min_duration_ms,
  MAX(double1) as max_duration_ms,
  COUNT(*) as executions
FROM conductor_metrics
WHERE index1 = 'ensemble.execution'
  AND timestamp > NOW() - INTERVAL '24' HOUR
GROUP BY blob1
ORDER BY avg_duration_ms DESC

-- Agent error rate
SELECT
  blob1 as agent_name,
  SUM(CASE WHEN double2 = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) as failures,
  COUNT(*) as total,
  ROUND(SUM(CASE WHEN double2 = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) * 100.0 / COUNT(*), 2) as error_rate_pct
FROM conductor_metrics
WHERE index1 = 'agent.execution'
  AND timestamp > NOW() - INTERVAL '7' DAY
GROUP BY blob1
HAVING COUNT(*) > 10
ORDER BY error_rate_pct DESC

-- Cache hit rate
SELECT
  blob1 as cache_status,
  COUNT(*) as count,
  ROUND(COUNT(*) * 100.0 / SUM(COUNT(*)) OVER (), 2) as percentage
FROM conductor_metrics
WHERE index1 = 'cache.performance'
  AND timestamp > NOW() - INTERVAL '1' DAY
GROUP BY blob1

Production Monitoring

Cloudflare Workers Dashboard

View real-time metrics:

Workers & Pages → Your worker → Metrics
Monitor:
- Requests per second
- Error rate
- CPU time
- Duration (p50, p95, p99)

Viewing Logs

# Stream all logs
wrangler tail

# Filter by status
wrangler tail --status=error

# Filter by specific execution
wrangler tail --search="exec_abc123"

Log Format

Conductor outputs structured JSON logs for Cloudflare Workers Logs:

{
  "timestamp": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z",
  "level": "info",
  "message": "Agent execution completed",
  "service": "conductor",
  "requestId": "req_abc123",
  "executionId": "exec_xyz789",
  "ensembleName": "user-workflow",
  "agentName": "processor",
  "stepIndex": 2,
  "durationMs": 150,
  "cached": false
}

OpenTelemetry Integration

Export to external platforms like Datadog or Honeycomb:

// conductor.config.ts
export default defineConfig({
  observability: {
    opentelemetry: {
      enabled: true,
      endpoint: 'https://http-intake.logs.datadoghq.com/api/v2/logs',
      headers: {
        'DD-API-KEY': '${DATADOG_API_KEY}',
        'DD-SOURCE': 'conductor'
      },
      samplingRate: 0.1, // Sample 10% of requests
    },
  },
})

Debugging

Enable Debug Mode

ensemble: debuggable-workflow

logging:
  level: debug  # Enable verbose logging
  trace:
    enabled: true
    includeInputs: true
    includeOutputs: true

flow:
  # ... agents ...

Local Development

# Run with debug logs
wrangler dev --log-level=debug

# Test ensemble locally
curl -X POST http://localhost:8787/api/v1/execute/ensemble/my-ensemble \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input": { "test": "data" }}'

Trace Execution with Logger

// scripts/traceable-agent.ts
import type { AgentExecutionContext } from '@ensemble-edge/conductor'

export default async function traceableAgent(context: AgentExecutionContext) {
  const { logger, executionId, input } = context

  // Use built-in logger instead of console.log
  logger.debug('Agent started', {
    executionId,
    inputKeys: Object.keys(input)
  })

  const result = await processData(input.data)

  logger.debug('Agent completed', {
    executionId,
    outputKeys: Object.keys(result)
  })

  return result
}

Performance Testing

Load Testing

// scripts/load-test.ts
async function loadTest() {
  // Send 100 concurrent requests
  const promises = Array.from({ length: 100 }, async (_, i) => {
    const start = Date.now();

    const result = await fetch('https://your-worker.workers.dev/api/v1/execute/ensemble/my-ensemble', {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
      body: JSON.stringify({ input: { id: i } })
    });

    const duration = Date.now() - start;
    return { success: result.ok, duration };
  });

  const results = await Promise.all(promises);

  // Analyze results
  const successes = results.filter(r => r.success).length;
  const avgDuration = results.reduce((sum, r) => sum + r.duration, 0) / results.length;
  const sorted = results.sort((a, b) => a.duration - b.duration);
  const p95Duration = sorted[Math.floor(results.length * 0.95)].duration;

  console.log({
    total: results.length,
    successes,
    success_rate: (successes / results.length * 100).toFixed(2) + '%',
    avg_duration_ms: avgDuration.toFixed(0),
    p95_duration_ms: p95Duration
  });
}

loadTest();

Best Practices

Test Coverage - Aim for 80%+ coverage
Mock External Calls - Don’t hit real APIs in tests
Test Error Paths - Test failures and fallbacks
Use Structured Logging - Always log as JSON with context
Redact Sensitive Data - Configure redact patterns
Monitor Continuously - Track metrics in production
Set Up Alerts - Alert on error rate spikes
Sample in Production - Use samplingRate for high-volume traffic
Debug Locally First - Use wrangler dev before deploying
Review Logs Regularly - Check for patterns and anomalies

Next Steps

Creating Agents

Build testable agents

Writing Ensembles

Design robust workflows

Playbooks

Real-world examples

Operations Reference

All operations docs

Conductor

Getting Started

Core Concepts

Building

Components

Operations Reference

Plugins

Starter Kit

Playbooks

Reference

​Testing Strategy

​Test Pyramid

​Unit Testing Agents

​Basic Agent Test

​Mocking Operations

​Testing Error Paths

​Integration Testing Ensembles

​Basic Ensemble Test

​Observability Configuration

​Configuration in conductor.config.ts

​Setting Up Analytics Engine

​Telemetry vs Observability

​Logging in Agents

​Log Levels

​YAML-Based Observability

​Agent-Level Logging

​Ensemble-Level Logging

​Querying Metrics

​Analytics Engine SQL API

​Production Monitoring

​Cloudflare Workers Dashboard

​Viewing Logs

​Log Format

​OpenTelemetry Integration

​Debugging

​Enable Debug Mode

​Local Development

​Trace Execution with Logger

​Performance Testing

​Load Testing

​Best Practices

​Next Steps

Creating Agents

Writing Ensembles

Playbooks

Operations Reference

Testing Strategy

Test Pyramid

Unit Testing Agents

Basic Agent Test

Mocking Operations

Testing Error Paths

Integration Testing Ensembles

Basic Ensemble Test

Observability Configuration

Configuration in conductor.config.ts

Setting Up Analytics Engine

Telemetry vs Observability

Logging in Agents

Log Levels

YAML-Based Observability

Agent-Level Logging

Ensemble-Level Logging

Querying Metrics

Analytics Engine SQL API

Production Monitoring

Cloudflare Workers Dashboard

Viewing Logs

Log Format

OpenTelemetry Integration

Debugging

Enable Debug Mode

Local Development

Trace Execution with Logger

Performance Testing

Load Testing

Best Practices

Next Steps