---
title: process.active_agent
description: An ActiveAgent action ran. Honeybadger forwards the ActiveAgent payload as-is, so extra fields depend on your ActiveAgent version and provider.
url: https://docs.honeybadger.io/insights/event-types/ruby/process.active_agent/
---

An ActiveAgent action ran. Honeybadger forwards the ActiveAgent payload as-is, so extra fields depend on your ActiveAgent version and provider.

Source **Active Agent** Category **LLM** Fields **8** [honeybadger-ruby](https://docs.honeybadger.io/lib/ruby/)

## Fields

| Field             | Type   | Description                                                                                                               |
| ----------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `event_type`      | string | Allowed value: `process.active_agent`.                                                                                    |
| `trace_id`        | string | Trace ID for correlating events within a single agent run.                                                                |
| `provider`        | string | Model provider name.                                                                                                      |
| `duration`        | number | Duration in milliseconds.                                                                                                 |
| `instrumenter_id` | string | ActiveSupport::Notifications instrumenter UUID, added by the Honeybadger notification subscriber.                         |
| `request_id`      | string | Rails request UUID, present on any event fired during a web request context. Set by the Honeybadger agent when available. |
| `hostname`        | string | Server hostname. Attached to every event by default (events.attach\_hostname).                                            |
| `environment`     | string | Application environment, e.g. "production". Attached to every event by default (events.attach\_environment).              |

## Example

```json
{
  "event_type": "process.active_agent",
  "trace_id": "7c9e6679-7425-40de-944b-e07fc1f90ae7",
  "provider": "openai",
  "duration": 2310.47,
  "instrumenter_id": "d6a5b3f4c2e1908a7b6c",
  "request_id": "0f5e4bb2-3c46-4b1c-91d5-2f4e8a6b9c01",
  "hostname": "web-1.example.com",
  "environment": "production"
}
```

---

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