Dev ditches observability dashboards: MCP connects agents directly to monitoring tools
DanielLockyer · x · 2026-10-02
Developer Daniel Lockyer shares a workflow shift: he rarely opens monitoring/tracing provider dashboards anymore — only to grab graphs for posting. Instead, everything is wired into his agent via MCP. He goes further, suggesting observability providers could delete most of their UI and go agent-native entirely.
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