Agent Observability Tooling: The Emerging Category Map
Agent observability is splintering into at least five distinct tool categories, tracing, evaluation, monitoring, guardrails, and replay, a
C. Whitlock · Apr 11, 2026 · 13 min
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3 articles tagged "llm tracing".
Why Traditional APM Doesn't Work for Agents (And What Has to Replace It)
Application Performance Monitoring was built to answer a binary question: did the request succeed, and how fast? AI agents break that model
E. Marchetti · Mar 26, 2026 · 12 min
The Observability Stack for Agent Infrastructure: What You Actually Need to See
Traditional observability tells you whether a service is up. Agent observability has to tell you something much harder: whether an autonomou
E. Marchetti · Feb 4, 2026 · 12 min