The Observability Layer Your AI Agent Is Missing

  • observability
  • agent-architecture
  • production-ai
  • tracing

Logs tell you what happened. Traces tell you why. The three layers of agent observability, and where silent failures actually live.

I walk through a real production failure from my own system. My business ops agent confidently reported a completed task it had silently failed. Logs were clean. The dashboard was green. A single trace showed exactly why. This is Part 2 of the Agent Quality series, based on Google’s Agent Quality white paper.

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