Agentic Monitoring: when AI agents do the on-call watching
bcongdon · hn · 2026-10-19
Benjamin Congdon's long-form essay explores "agentic monitoring": instead of humans watching dashboards and alerts, AI agents continuously observe systems, investigate anomalies, and report back. The piece covers how observability tooling must change when agents—not people—consume monitoring data, the design of machine-readable context, and the tradeoffs of automated triage (false positives, permission boundaries, human-in-the-loop roles), plus practical advice on designing logs and alerts for agent readers.
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