Web Scraping Observability - Metrics, Traces, and Anomaly Detection for Crawlers
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Production web scraping in 2025 is fundamentally different from the “HTML + requests + regex” era. JavaScript-heavy sites, aggressive anti-bot systems, complex proxy routing, and AI-driven extraction have turned scraping into a distributed system problem that requires first-class observability and governance. In modern data and AI stacks, scrapers are no longer side utilities; they are critical ingestion backbones feeding LLMs, analytics, and automation agents.