Inspect an AI Agent Run Without Paying for Logs You'll Never Read — Telemetry Shouldn't Be Your Second Biggest Bill

Last time we put hard budgets on cost and guaranteed cleanup. This time we make sure you can inspect an agent run without making telemetry volume the default cost center.

Take a real number. An agent does 200 tool calls per run. Each tool emits 5 events. That's 1,000 events per run. 100K runs/day = 100 million events/day.

At CloudWatch Logs ingestion ($0.50/GB) with 500-byte structured JSON, that is roughly $9,125/year of telemetry that may not be needed on successful runs. Datadog APM, Application Insights, and Honeycomb have different pricing models, but the engineering issue is the same: unbounded event volume turns observability into a cost surface.

WorkIt's core has zero networking imports.

$ grep -E "node:http|node:https|fetch" dist/index.js