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ElevenLabs best practices

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ElevenLabs logs arrive from post-call transcription webhooks rather than live API interception, so they land after a conversation ends and omit fields that only exist at request time. Knowing which fields are structurally unavailable saves you from chasing gaps that are not misconfiguration.


Logs come from post-call webhooks, not real-time API interception

ElevenLabs logs are populated from transcription webhooks sent after a voice conversation ends — not from intercepting LLM API calls. This has significant implications for what data is available.


What the prompt and response fields contain

Field Contents
User Prompt All user-side utterances from the full conversation, joined
Assistant Response All agent-side utterances from the full conversation, joined

These are transcripts of the whole call, not individual turns.


Most fields are always blank

The webhook payload does not include: model name, temperature, input/output token counts, latency, or system prompt. All of these will always be blank for ElevenLabs logs.


Structured outputs

Not applicable — ElevenLabs is a voice AI platform, not a text generation API.


Caching

Not applicable.


What ElevenLabs logs are useful for

Conversation quality review, feedback collection on voice interactions, and volume tracking. Not useful for cost analysis (no token counts) or performance benchmarking (no latency or model data).

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