The alarm wasn't silent. It was lying.

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Project Overview

agentic-os is a small self-hosted observability stack I run on Railway: Prometheus, Grafana, an OpenTelemetry Collector, a cloudflared tunnel, and a public status API that publishes three numbers about my Claude Code usage — requests, tokens, cost.

It is a personal project, but it is a real deployment with real uptime, and the entire purpose of it is to be the thing that tells me when something is wrong. That framing matters for what follows.

Bug Fix or Performance Improvement

The alarm wasn't silent. It was lying.

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