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How do you know if your AI agent is working or just burning money?

Renato Marinho2d ago • 3 min read

How do you know if your AI agent is working or just burning money?

If you aren't monitoring your agentic workflows with telemetry, you are just waiting for a massive A...

#ai#agents#observability#devops

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Your Agent Passed Every Eval and Still Cost $4,000 a Day

Saurav BhattacharyaJun 18, 2026 • 5 min read

Your Agent Passed Every Eval and Still Cost $4,000 a Day

Here is a failure mode nobody puts on their roadmap: the agent works. It answers correctly. It passe...

#ai#agents#evaluation#observability

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You Can't Reproduce Your Agent's Bugs—That's Why You Can't Fix Them

Saurav Bhattacharya1d ago • 6 min read

You Can't Reproduce Your Agent's Bugs—That's Why You Can't Fix Them

Here is a bug report I have received, in some form, at every company running agents in...

#ai#agents#testing#observability

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Shadow Deployments for AI Agents: Canary Your Prompt Changes Before They Burn Production

Saurav Bhattacharya3d ago • 5 min read

Shadow Deployments for AI Agents: Canary Your Prompt Changes Before They Burn Production

You shipped your agent. Evals were green. A week later you tweak the system prompt to fix one...

#ai#agents#evaluation#observability

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Hallucination Is Not a Vibe: How to Actually Detect Ungrounded Claims in Agent Output

Saurav Bhattacharya6d ago • 6 min read

Hallucination Is Not a Vibe: How to Actually Detect Ungrounded Claims in Agent Output

Every team I talk to says their agent "sometimes hallucinates," and almost none of them can tell me....

#ai#agents#evaluation#observability

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Agent = Model x Harness: Your Eval Layer Is Part of the Agent, Not a Tool Beside It

Saurav Bhattacharya4d ago • 6 min read

Agent = Model x Harness: Your Eval Layer Is Part of the Agent, Not a Tool Beside It

There's a formula I keep coming back to when people ask why their slick demo agent falls apart in...

#ai#agents#evaluation#observability

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My verdict layer had two readers. Only one of them had eyes.

Lazypl821d ago • 6 min read

My verdict layer had two readers. Only one of them had eyes.

An internal release agent finished a deploy a little after 2 a.m. and then had nothing it could...

#devops#deployment#observability#mcp

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Your Agent Didn't Break, It Drifted: Detecting Slow Decay in Autonomous Systems

Saurav Bhattacharya5d ago • 7 min read

Your Agent Didn't Break, It Drifted: Detecting Slow Decay in Autonomous Systems

There is a specific kind of incident that no alert ever fires for, and it is the one I trust least.....

#ai#agents#observability#evaluation

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Goodhart's Law Comes for Your Agent Evals: Why Your Green Dashboard Stops Meaning Anything

Saurav Bhattacharya4d ago • 5 min read

Goodhart's Law Comes for Your Agent Evals: Why Your Green Dashboard Stops Meaning Anything

The day your eval suite becomes a release gate, it stops measuring quality and starts becoming a tar...

#ai#agents#evaluation#observability

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Evaluating LLM Output Quality In Production

Nazar Boyko1d ago • 10 min read

Evaluating LLM Output Quality In Production

In March 2023, GPT-4 could tell you whether a number was prime with 97.6% accuracy. By June of the.....

#ai#observability#llm#evaluation

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I Reduced Our Alert Volume by 90% — Here's the Playbook

Samson Tanimawo21h ago • 2 min read

I Reduced Our Alert Volume by 90% — Here's the Playbook

The Night I Almost Quit Three months into my SRE role, I was averaging 47 alerts per...

#sre#devops#monitoring#observability

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LLM observability tools are blind to the voice layer. Here is what I checked 6 of them for.

Marcus Chen6d ago • 3 min read

LLM observability tools are blind to the voice layer. Here is what I checked 6 of them for.

Tracing the LLM call is the easy 20 percent. For a voice agent, the failures live in the...

#ai#observability#llm#machinelearning

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Scarab Diagnostic Field Test #033 - Prometheus Remote-Write Label Order Boundary

Scarab Systems5d ago • 5 min read

Scarab Diagnostic Field Test #033 - Prometheus Remote-Write Label Order Boundary

Target: prometheus/prometheus Issue: prometheus/prometheus#11505 Pull request:...

#prometheus#observability#discuss#ai

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Structured Logging That Actually Helps Debugging at 3 AM

HelperX6d ago • 8 min read

Structured Logging That Actually Helps Debugging at 3 AM

Most logging is written for the person who wrote the code. The author knows the system, knows what.....

#node#logging#observability#devops

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CloudWatch to OTel: Tearing Down the Observability Bridge Pattern

Fernando Azevedo1d ago • 9 min read

CloudWatch to OTel: Tearing Down the Observability Bridge Pattern

Deep technical analysis of the CloudWatch-to-OpenTelemetry bridge pattern via Lambda — anatomy, trad...

#dataplatforms#observability#opentelemetry#cloudwatch

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ML Observability on EKS: Logs, Metrics and Tracing Head-to-Head

Fernando Azevedo1d ago • 11 min read

ML Observability on EKS: Logs, Metrics and Tracing Head-to-Head

Technical analysis comparing the leading observability strategies for ML workloads on EKS: Fluent Bi...

#dataplatforms#eks#mlops#observability

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LLM Observability in Production: From GPU Metrics to Response Quality

Fernando Azevedo1d ago • 11 min read

LLM Observability in Production: From GPU Metrics to Response Quality

Field notes on comprehensive LLM inference observability on SageMaker: GPU metrics, token latency, r...

#dataplatforms#llmops#observability#sagemaker

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Why ClickHouse Merges and Mutations Are Difficult to Track in Production

Kanishga SubramaniJun 18, 2026 • 3 min read

Why ClickHouse Merges and Mutations Are Difficult to Track in Production

One of the reasons ClickHouse delivers exceptional analytical performance is its ability to optimize...

#clickhouse#database#dataengineering#observability

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Good Architecture Includes Observability

Michael Masterson2d ago • 8 min read

Good Architecture Includes Observability

Good architecture is not only about how a system is built. It is also about how well the team can...

#observability#systemdesign#architecture#software

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Deploying Zabbix Open-Source Monitoring Platform on Ubuntu 24.04

Sanskriti Harmukh1d ago • 3 min read

Deploying Zabbix Open-Source Monitoring Platform on Ubuntu 24.04

Zabbix is an open-source monitoring platform that tracks the health and performance of servers,...

#observability#docker#devops#monitoring

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Correlation IDs: Trace a Single Request Across Every Service in Your API

Mean3d ago • 3 min read

Correlation IDs: Trace a Single Request Across Every Service in Your API

The Problem: One Request, Five Services, Zero Clues A user reports that "saving their...

#api#webdev#tutorial#observability

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Monitoring LLM costs in production: tokens, tenants, and alerts

Amit Nabarro2d ago • 9 min read

Monitoring LLM costs in production: tokens, tenants, and alerts

A practical guide to LLM cost observability: structured logging, Langfuse dashboards, OpenTelemetry ...

#llm#observability#saas#webdev

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Patrick Hughes5d ago • 3 min read

Missing AI agent cost data is not zero

A spend ledger that counts missing billing data as $0 hides exactly the unattended agent spend you b...

#aiagents#costcontrol#observability#spendtracking

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Give Your AI Agents an Append-Only Event Log

Patrick Hughes2d ago • 3 min read

Give Your AI Agents an Append-Only Event Log

An append-only event log lets you replay exactly what your AI agent did, and catches the crashed run...

#aiagents#observability#eventsourcing#onepersoncompany

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Tech Articles

How do you know if your AI agent is working or just burning money?

Your Agent Passed Every Eval and Still Cost $4,000 a Day

You Can't Reproduce Your Agent's Bugs—That's Why You Can't Fix Them

Shadow Deployments for AI Agents: Canary Your Prompt Changes Before They Burn Production

Hallucination Is Not a Vibe: How to Actually Detect Ungrounded Claims in Agent Output

Agent = Model x Harness: Your Eval Layer Is Part of the Agent, Not a Tool Beside It

My verdict layer had two readers. Only one of them had eyes.

Your Agent Didn't Break, It Drifted: Detecting Slow Decay in Autonomous Systems

Goodhart's Law Comes for Your Agent Evals: Why Your Green Dashboard Stops Meaning Anything

Evaluating LLM Output Quality In Production

I Reduced Our Alert Volume by 90% — Here's the Playbook

LLM observability tools are blind to the voice layer. Here is what I checked 6 of them for.

Scarab Diagnostic Field Test #033 - Prometheus Remote-Write Label Order Boundary

Structured Logging That Actually Helps Debugging at 3 AM

CloudWatch to OTel: Tearing Down the Observability Bridge Pattern

ML Observability on EKS: Logs, Metrics and Tracing Head-to-Head

LLM Observability in Production: From GPU Metrics to Response Quality

Why ClickHouse Merges and Mutations Are Difficult to Track in Production

Good Architecture Includes Observability

Deploying Zabbix Open-Source Monitoring Platform on Ubuntu 24.04

Correlation IDs: Trace a Single Request Across Every Service in Your API

Monitoring LLM costs in production: tokens, tenants, and alerts

Missing AI agent cost data is not zero

Give Your AI Agents an Append-Only Event Log