Agent Monitoring
Production agent monitoring detects anomalies, cost spikes, and performance degradation in real-time so issues can be caught and fixed before they impact users.
6 min•By Priygop Team•Updated 2026
Monitoring Alerts
- Success rate drops below 85%: alert and investigate immediately
- Escalation rate spikes above 20%: the agent may be encountering a new type of input it wasn't designed for
- Average cost per task increases by 50%: a change may have caused the agent to take more steps
- P95 latency exceeds SLA: users are experiencing slow responses
- Error rate exceeds 5 per hour: something in the tool infrastructure may be broken
- Any single task exceeds 15 minutes: the agent may be stuck in a loop or waiting for human approval indefinitely
Key Takeaways
- Production agent monitoring detects anomalies, cost spikes, and performance degradation in real-time so issues can be caught and fixed before they impact users.
- Success rate drops below 85%: alert and investigate immediately
- Escalation rate spikes above 20%: the agent may be encountering a new type of input it wasn't designed for
- Average cost per task increases by 50%: a change may have caused the agent to take more steps