Observability In The Age Of AI Agents
F5, Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
AI agents are here, and they aren't just calling APIs or pushing content. They're thinking. They're deciding. They're planning and delegating. And they're doing it across your infrastructure, your services, and your traffic management stack...
The problem? Most of our systems have no idea what they're doing.
Traditional observability was built to track services. You know, real things: requests, responses, latencies, paths. It wasn't built to understand why a request happened-only that it did. But now your traffic might originate from a recursive reasoning loop inside an agent, and all you'll see in your logs is a POST to/search with a payload and a 200.
That's not observability. That's opacity.