DevOps / SRE / Platform · 30.07.2026, 20:48 UTC
How to build a trust platform for your agent with Grafana Agent Observability
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| Kategorie | DevOps / SRE / Platform |
| Quelle | Grafana Labs ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 30.07.2026 UTC |
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Observing fast-growing agentic workloads is no small feat, especially if you try to build your own monitoring stack or rely solely on tools built for a time before LLMs.At Grafana Labs, we know this all too well. Grafana Assistant went from an internal hackathon project to generally available in a little over six months. And while it was great to see how eager our users were to adopt it, that interest came with plenty of growing pains as we managed scaling and complexity behind the scenes. Reviewing contributions to the prompt, tool set, and agent harness became a nightmare as changes piled on from multiple teams. Bespoke dashboards just weren’t cutting it. (You can read more about our experience in this post on Unprompted, our new engineering blog.)If you've been building agents, you've probably faced some similar frustrations. The good news? You don't have to blindly walk through the same growing pains that we did. We built Agent Observability as an internal tool to address these challenges, and today we're making it generally available to Grafana Cloud users to help you watch your agents, test their behavior, and step in when something's off. But having the right tool is only the first step. This post will document guidance and best practices for building a robust trust and monitoring setup to monitor your own agents, based on the phases we went through building Assistant.Phase 0: Early prototype and initial deploymentIt's exciting to start with a fresh idea, pick an agent framework, and say the first “Hello, world!” to a new agent. In fact, you can get surprisingly far …