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ARTICLEDEV.to AI·29d ago

Why Traditional Observability Breaks with AI Agents

Traditional observability breaks down with AI agents due to the non-deterministic nature of their execution paths. The focus shifts from infrastructure monitoring to understanding reasoning, requiring reasoning-level telemetry. AWS AgentCore is presented as a runtime layer for operating probabilistic systems, exposing critical signals like reasoning depth and tool execution graphs.

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ARTICLEDEV.to AI·5/5/2026

I have no idea what my AI agents are doing right now. Here is how I fixed that.

Running autonomous AI agents in production often leads to significant anxiety due to a lack of visibility into their operations and performance across distributed environments. This article addresses the challenge of monitoring AI agent networks, contrasting it with traditional microservices monitoring, and outlines a practical solution implemented by the author.

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ARTICLEDEV.to AI·4/12/2026

Add governance to DSPy pipelines

The content addresses the challenge of monitoring and debugging DSPy pipelines, where operations can easily be lost track of. It introduces the `asqav` library with `AsqavDSPyCallback` as a solution to track each step, enhancing governance and observability.

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ARTICLEDEV.to AI·4/25/2026

You're Flying Blind: Adding LLM Observability to Spring AI with OpenTelemetry and Self-Hosted Langfuse

This content addresses the observability gap in LLM-enabled Java services, where standard APM tools fail to track crucial LLM-specific details like prompt usage, token consumption, and costs. It proposes a solution using Spring AI, OpenTelemetry, and self-hosted Langfuse to bridge this gap, offering a fully containerized setup.

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ARTICLEDEV.to AI·4/24/2026

I Ran 20 Cycles in a Row and Every Single One Failed — Here's What That Taught Me About Agent Design

The author recounts an experience where an AI agent repeatedly failed due to an internal server error but kept logging the same lesson without being able to act on it. They criticize a retry loop without a circuit breaker as merely noise, highlighting a common failure mode in agent architectures where insights fail to influence behavior.

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