Fork the Trace Stream, Don't Bolt It On

The live request path never waits on the analytics store — the collector absorbs its slowness or downtime alone.

Client LLM Gateway Model main path: fast, unaffected by analytics fork (fire-and-forget, non-blocking) Trace Collector buffers, retries, degrades alone Governed Analytics Store can be slow / down without harm ⚠ outage here stays here Green = live request/response path · Blue/orange = forked telemetry path, decoupled from request latency