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# Supervise Multi-Agent Systems
For supervising multi-agent systems, Wayfound has the concept of **Applications.** One or more agents can be added to an application, and as sessions flow in to Wayfound, OpenTelemetry `trace` and `span` information is leveraged to create a holistic view of exactly what has occurred and when. Additionally, the Wayfound Supervisor can reason across the actions of every agent that participated in the application `trace`.
To create an **Application**, go to the **Applications** section of Wayfound and click 'New Application'.
Provide a name and role and select one or more agents for the **Application**.
When viewing the list of Applications, simply click on the **Application** name to view `traces`.
The **Application** detail screen provides a quick overview of all the `traces` collected. For each `trace` you can see the number of sessions, the grades of each participating agent, the durations, and when each `trace` started and ended.
Clicking on a `trace` id will display the `trace` details drawer where you can view key analysis and the multi-agent timeline.
Click on an entry in the timeline to view the full agent analysis drawer.
**Contextualize Session Data**
After an Application is created in Wayfound, the next step is to enhance your session data to include the `applicationId`, `trace_id`, and `span_id` .
It is important to use the same `trace_id` across sessions where multiple agents are involved so that Wayfound can properly correlate the multi-agent session data.
The required `span_id` and optional `parent_span_id` can be used to further group data within a trace.
Here is an example of a Wayfound session with these fields included:
```
{
"agentId": "22198fc5-1056-4a9d-b455-440db1249539",
"applicationId": "7cf54242-0898-4ac1-a09c-c0e4be3f000a",
"firstMessageAt": "2025-15-08T10:51:00.000Z",
"lastMessageAt": "2025-15-08T10:51:00.000Z",
"messages": [
{
"timestamp": "2025-15-08T10:51:00.000Z",
"event_type": "assistant_message",
"attributes": {
"content": "Hello, how can I help you today?"
},
"context": {
"trace_id": "123",
"span_id": "abc"
}
}
]
}
```
**Note:** The `context`, `trace_id`, and `span_id` are required fields when you add `applicationId` to a session.
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