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agentgateway Standalone: A Cost & Tokenomics Dashboard in One Command
Introduction You’re routing LLM traffic through a gateway. But do you actually know what it costs? Not the rough monthly invoice from your provider — the real breakdown. Which model burned the most tokens last …
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In a previous post I showed that Enterprise agentgateway can cut your LLM bill by changing how GitHub’s MCP tools are presented to the model — its …
GitHub MCP Token Economics: Why Search Mode Cuts Your LLM Bill by ~60%
Every time an LLM talks to an MCP server, it has to be told what tools exist. That tool catalog — the JSON schema of every tool, its parameters, and …
Running agentgateway on Proxmox (LXC): the Everything MCP server end-to-end
Running agentgateway on Proxmox (LXC): the Everything MCP server end-to-end Date: June 2026 Author: Sebastian Maniak Tags: agentgateway, mcp, proxmox, lxc, …
One-Script Deployment: agentgateway + Self-Hosted Langfuse on Kubernetes for LLM Cost Analysis
Running production-grade LLM gateways with full observability usually involves many manual steps across Helm charts, CRDs, tracing configuration, and UI key …
agentgateway Standalone → Langfuse: Direct OTLP Tracing (No Collector)
I’ve already covered the production OTel Collector pattern for shipping agentgateway traces to Langfuse. This is the opposite end of the spectrum: the …
Langfuse Integration with agentgateway (OTel Collector Pattern) for cost controls, observability
agentgateway emits rich OpenTelemetry traces for every LLM request, tool call, and policy decision. This guide shows the production-grade way to forward those …