Engineering Aug 10, 2026 Baran Onala
Why AI Agents Need Specialized Observability
Standard APM tools like Datadog weren't built for non-deterministic LLM chains. Here's why monitoring agents is fundamentally different.
Thoughts, engineering deep dives, and product updates from the team building the future of AI agent observability.
Standard APM tools like Datadog weren't built for non-deterministic LLM chains. Here's why monitoring agents is fundamentally different.
How we saved our customers over $2M by detecting prompt bloat and infinite loops in autonomous agents.
VigilAgent now automatically traces every LangChain run without writing any manual span decorators.