AI Agent Loops Are Opaque: Silent Failures Hidden Behind 200 OK Responses
AI agents running in production can silently loop, replay the same tool call for minutes, or stall — while HTTP logs show clean 200 OK responses. Standard observability tools have no concept of multi-turn agent behavior, leaving engineers blind to the actual agent execution path. Diagnosing these failures requires deep network-level inspection of LLM traffic that no mainstream APM tool provides.
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