Monitoring Agentic Systems Before They're Reliable: Structural Defects Dominate the Failure Landscape
arXiv·high signal
Argues that agentic systems entering production fail primarily from structural defects — not task-level errors — and that current monitoring tools are inadequate for this maturity level. The paper proposes that at early deployment maturity, task-level error detection may be infeasible and practitioners should focus on structural observability instead. Directly actionable for anyone shipping agents to production: monitor architecture integrity before optimizing task accuracy.