Reading Observability Tools? That's a Robot's Job

2026-05-29

Metrics, logs, and traces have long been the three pillars that were touted for observability tooling. These pillars don't hold up in the era of LLMs and agentic systems because they were designed for humans even though agents are now the primary consumers of observability. Traces are the primary pillar now and their schema should be versioned and viewed similarly to an API.