AgentOps After Launch: Metrics, Pipelines & Continuous Improvement for Production AI Agents
This article explains why traditional monitoring fails for AI agents and introduces AgentOps—covering observability with full traces, five key SLOs (task success rate, human escalation rate, cost per successful task), a multi-stage release pipeline with shadow and canary phases, FinOps with model routing, ROI calculation including risk costs, agent lifecycle management, and a continuous improvement flywheel turning production traces into eval datasets.
