How I Built a Monitoring Stack That Actually Catches AI Agent Failures Before They Cost Money
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How I Built a Monitoring Stack That Actually Catches AI Agent Failures Before They Cost Money Most monitoring tools for AI agents are useless. They tell you that something failed, not why - and by the time you find out, you've already burned through your API budget. After watching my agents cost me thousands in failed retries and hallucinations, I built a monitoring stack that catches failures in real-time. Here's the technical architecture. The Three Failure Modes Most Tools Miss Your agent isn't failing in one way.