Logging vs. monitoring: AI automations need both, but they're not the same
Historical-Carpet388 · reddit · 2026-10-27
A short but useful distinction for AI automation systems: logging tells you what happened and what output was produced, while output monitoring answers whether the output is valid and whether someone should be alerted. You need both, but they are not the same thing.
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