LLM observability is the difference between a demo that "looked good in the room" and a company that can answer:
- What ran?
- What did it cost?
- Did it finish?
- Why did it fail?
Without those answers you are not operating agents. You are hoping.
The four-field minimum
For every production agent run:
- What ran — agent, tools, model
- What it cost — tokens / time
- Whether it finished — success, partial, fail
- Why it failed — trace, not a shrug
Market language also includes agent tracing and ai agent observability. Same job: accountable fleets.
Token usage is cost observability
When founders say "cost spiked," they usually mean model tokens, not the VM line.
You need fleet rollups (session vs week), breakdowns by provider/model/harness/VM, and a per-agent panel. Spreadsheets after a scare are not monitoring.
On jurniti the token usage meter is advisory and BYOK-native—keys stay yours; jurniti does not resell tokens. Dashboard, CLI, MCP: Token usage docs.
Plugin-class lenses
Treat quality traces as a plugin-class concern next to the product agent—not a sticky note per project. Attach the lens to the fleet; do not rebuild monitoring every time you hire a new persona.
Full OS, not only traces
Observability is one pillar of an AI-native company: fleets, memory, channels, plugins. The free course paces all five.
Host shape
Traces without isolation still leave shared blast radius. Managed microVMs with BYOK and always-on shape keep observability meaningful. No free trial; 30-day money-back on first purchase.