Silent failure

In practice

This is the most expensive failure mode in agent operations, and the reason is structural rather than technical. Every other failure announces itself: a bad answer is visible, a crash loop is visible, a large bill is visible eventually. An agent that quietly stopped last Thursday emits nothing at all, and you find out when you notice that the thing it was doing has not happened in a week. The fix is a heartbeat rather than better error handling. Record every scheduled run including the runs that found nothing, so a missing record becomes the alarm.

Read more

• Why agents stop running
• AI agent monitoring

Nearby terms

• Self-hosting
• Spend cap
• Trigger