Managing your agents - Monitoring & Insights
Your AI agent is deployed and running, but how do you actually know what it's doing behind the scenes? In Episode 5 of our Astro getting-started series, Developer Advocate Pooja Mistry walks through the complete observability suite in Astro (Astropods) using "Quill," an automated blog publishing agent. Discover how to track high-level system health, debug conversational failures step-by-step with Trace Trees, analyze infrastructure compute resources, and diagnose bottlenecks between model latency and server limits. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: • The Monitor Dashboard: Tracking token usage, total spend, requests, and latency over time • Network Traffic Overview: Inspecting inbound/outbound calls, database requests, and route error rates • Deep-Dive Traces: Reviewing inputs, outputs, exact costs, and step-by-step execution trees for every conversation • Memory & Tool Inspection: Seeing exactly what an agent retrieved, executed, and sent to models like Claude • Infrastructure Compute Metrics: Monitoring CPU cores, RAM usage, storage, and container health • Troubleshooting Slowdowns: Differentiating between model delays and infrastructure resource constraints 0:00 - Introduction: Why AI Agent Observability Matters 0:23 - The Monitor Page: High-Level Health & Token Consumption 0:42 - Requests, Latency & Network Traffic Breakdown 1:08 - Traces: Auditing Every Conversation & Interaction 1:23 - Inspecting Inputs, Outputs, Costs & Execution Trace Trees 2:00 - Deployment Infrastructure Metrics (CPU, RAM & Containers) 2:21 - Diagnosing Bottlenecks: Model Issues vs. Resource Limits 2:40 - Summary: Monitor, Traces & Deployment Metrics Catch Up on the Series: Follow our full getting-started playlist to learn how to install the CLI, build agents locally with Claude Code, deploy to the Blueprint Registry, and connect bots to Slack! Resources & Docs: • Astro AI Platform: https://astropods.com • Documentation: https://docs.astropods.com/welcome #AstroAI #Astropods #AIObservability #AIAgents #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps #LLMOps #ClaudeCode #DeveloperTools