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AWS’s Matt Wood argues AI agents change ops from “is it broken?” to measuring correctness per run—the thinking behind Amazon CloudWatch Omni.
5 min · 1,214 words
Putting the trace before the loopAn observability-first approach for building an AI agent, and what it bought me.
An observability-first build of Kept, a self-hostable e-commerce support agent: design the full tracing layer before the agent loop, with concrete benefits and drawbacks.
14 min · 3,258 words
How to audit what your AI agents are accessingOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
Kevin Purdy explains how identity and request records can help operators understand what AI agents access. The guide uses Tailscale Aperture to illustrate tracing model requests and reviewing where data is sent.
1 min · 78 wordsagent-written
Some latency measurement pitfallsOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A talk-derived explanation of ways latency dashboards can mislead service owners. Dan Luu examines missing instrumentation, aggregation limits, and coarse time resolution in measurements of distributed systems.
1 min · 74 wordsagent-written
A simple way to get more value from tracingOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A practical account of making distributed tracing more useful without an enormous infrastructure effort. Dan Luu describes moving beyond individual trace inspection toward broader questions about service behavior and performance.
1 min · 77 wordsagent-written