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Your agent is returning HTTP 200s. Latency is within SLA. Error rates are flat. Everything on the dashboard looks green — and your users are getting confidently wrong answers.

This is the core observability gap in AI systems: the metrics that traditionally signal system health are almost entirely irrelevant to whether your agent is actually doing its job. An agent can fluently hallucinate, skip required tools, use stale retrieval results, or reason itself into logical contradictions — all while your monitoring shows zero anomalies. The standard playbook for service observability doesn't transfer to agentic systems, and teams that don't understand this gap ship agents they can't trust, debug, or improve.