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sentry

AI agent observability: The developer's guide to agent monitoring

Apr 7, 2026 By Sergiy Dybskiy In Sentry
Most "agent observability best practices" content reads like a compliance checklist from 2019 with "AI" pasted over "microservices." Implement comprehensive logging. Establish evaluation metrics. Create governance frameworks. Not a single line of code. No mention of what happens when your agent silently picks the wrong tool on turn 3 and you need to figure out why.
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datadog

Operating agentic AI with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Datadog LLM Observability: Lessons from NTT DATA

Apr 7, 2026 By Tohn Furutani In Datadog
This guest blog post is by Tohn Furutani, SRE Engineer at NTT DATA. Over the past year, the conversation around generative AI has shifted from single-shot use cases—such as summarization, Q&A, and chat interfaces—to agentic AI systems that can make decisions based on context, plan multistep actions, invoke tools, and adapt as conditions change.
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uptrace

LLM Cost Monitoring with OpenTelemetry

Apr 7, 2026 By Alexandr Bandurchin In Uptrace
Teams running LLM applications in production face a cost problem that traditional APM tools were never designed to solve. CPU and memory costs are relatively predictable — a web service processing 1,000 requests per second costs roughly the same week over week. LLM API costs are not. A single user session can cost $0.01 or $5 depending on prompt length, model choice, conversation history, and how many retries happen inside your chain.
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lightrun

Top 5 Continuous Monitoring Tools and Why Runtime Context Is the Layer They Are Missing

Apr 7, 2026 By Lightrun Team In Lightrun
Continuous monitoring tools track system health, performance, and behavior in real time across production environments. For a deeper understanding of how this fits into modern DevOps practices, see this guide on continuous monitoring and its impact on DevOps. They collect logs, metrics, and distributed traces across the infrastructure and application layers, giving engineering teams visibility into how their systems are running, where anomalies occur, and when something needs immediate attention.
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honeycomb

AI Working for You: MCP, Canvas, and Agentic Workflows - Part 2

Apr 6, 2026 By Ken Rimple In Honeycomb
In our previous post in our series on observability for the agent era, we looked at how Honeycomb provides unique visibility into LLMs operating in your production environment. Now, let’s flip it around and explore how Honeycomb provides observability insights uniquely suited to helping your AI agents rapidly diagnose and fix production issues, and build production feedback into the next round of development.
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honeycomb

The Fundamentals: Fast, Deep, and Ready for What Comes Next - Part 3

Apr 6, 2026 By Ken Rimple In Honeycomb
The previous two posts in this series have looked at some of the use cases Honeycomb customers are implementing to observe LLMs in production and power agentic observability workflows. In this third and final post, we’ll take it back to basics and look at how the fundamental capabilities and infrastructure of Honeycomb provide the comprehensive data and fast performance that makes these use cases work at production scale. AI capabilities built on a weak observability foundation fall apart fast.
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We Know Before it Breaks: Observability-Driven Development

Apr 6, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
When stakeholders push for faster growth (new markets, new features, newly modernized stack) your engineering model has to change too. At FitnessPassport, the shift from offshore waterfall delivery to an in-house team meant rebuilding not just services, but confidence: legacy systems with weak logging and little visibility made it hard to know whether changes were working and impossible to spot issues before users did. In this talk, Director of Engineering Rob Mitchell will share how FitnessPassport adopted Datadog and used structured logs, metrics, and traces to tighten feedback loops.
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When we say "Observability AI Reckoning," what are we actually talking about?

Apr 3, 2026 By Virtana In Virtana
We’ve spent the last decade collecting more telemetry. Now AI is analyzing it. Here’s the catch: AI needs the full dependency chain to reason correctly. If it sees spans but not storage contention… Services but not Kubernetes scheduling… Frontend metrics but not downstream providers… It will confidently optimize the wrong thing. AI doesn’t lower the need for observability. It raises the standard.
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