Part 9: Agentic Observability - Monitoring & Debugging the AI's Train of Thought
1. The “Black Box” Problem & The Incompetence of Traditional APM In traditional software systems (Web/App), you can use APM (Application Performance Monitoring) tools like Datadog or New Relic for monitoring. If the system returns an HTTP 200 OK code, you know everything is working fine. If it returns HTTP 500, you open the Log to see which line of code failed. But with AI Agents, this logic completely collapses. An Agentic system can swiftly return an HTTP 200 OK, without throwing any Exceptions, yet the returned content could be flawed financial advice (Hallucination) that costs the company millions of dollars. ...