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Monitoring & Observability

Master monitoring and observability for production AI agents including logging, tracing, metrics, and real-time debugging

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Alerting & Debugging

Alerts wake you up at 3am. Make them count. Alert on symptoms (error rate spike), not causes (CPU high). Set thresholds based on user impact: if users aren't affected, don't page. Use severity levels: INFO (log only), WARN (investigate tomorrow), ERROR (page immediately). When debugging: 1) Check dashboard (what's broken?), 2) Grep logs by trace ID (what happened?), 3) Examine traces (where's the bottleneck?). 5-minute diagnosis beats 5-hour guesswork.

Interactive: Alert Management Simulator

Watch how alerts trigger based on real-time conditions. Click "Start Monitoring" to simulate an incident:

Alert Monitoring System
Time: 0s
Error Rate Spike
high
Condition: Error rate >2% for 5 minutes
Action: Page on-call engineer
High Latency
medium
Condition: P95 latency >1000ms for 10 minutes
Action: Slack notification
Cost Spike
critical
Condition: Hourly cost >$500
Action: Page team lead + pause non-critical agents
Queue Congestion
medium
Condition: Queue depth >1000 requests
Action: Auto-scale workers

Debugging Workflow

1.
Check Dashboard: Which metric is abnormal? Error rate? Latency? Cost?
2.
Find Trace ID: Pick a failing request from logs, grab its trace_id
3.
Follow The Trace: See request journey across services, find bottleneck
4.
Grep Logs: Search all logs for that trace_id, read error messages
5.
Fix & Verify: Deploy fix, watch metrics return to normal, document incident
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Alert Fatigue Is Real

Too many alerts = ignored alerts. If you page for every warning, engineers will ignore pages. Only alert on user-impacting issues. ERROR alert = immediate response required. WARN alert = investigate during business hours. INFO = just log it. Review alert history monthly: Which alerts were false positives? Which real incidents had no alert? Tune thresholds. Good alerting means 95% of pages are real problems needing immediate action.

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