You used to monitor services.
Then you started monitoring AI calls inside services.
Now your AI agent is spinning up other AI agents to complete tasks. Your old monitoring instincts need to evolve.
This isn’t hypothetical. Agentic architectures are already in production. Coding agents are calling search agents; orchestrators are spawning specialized sub-agents for retrieval, planning, and execution. Teams are shipping these systems faster than they’re figuring out how to watch them.
The problem isn’t that agents fail. It’s that when they do, you often can’t tell which agent introduced the failure, or whether anything technically failed at all.
