Are You Flying Blind?
Most teams don't realize their monitoring is inadequate until something goes wrong. A surprise $500 API bill. An agent that's been down for days without anyone noticing. A task queue backing up until customers start complaining.
Here are the ten signs that your current monitoring setup isn't cutting it.
1. You Find Out About Agent Failures From Users
If your customers or colleagues are telling you "the agent isn't working" before your monitoring catches it, you have a problem. Proper monitoring should detect failures within seconds, not after users have been impacted.
Fix: Set up real-time health checks with immediate alerting. ClawHQ checks agent health every 30 seconds and alerts you instantly when something goes wrong.
2. You Don't Know What Your Agents Cost
If the answer to "how much did our agents cost this week?" is "I'll check the API billing dashboard later," you're missing a critical visibility layer.
Fix: Implement per-agent, per-task cost tracking. Set budget alerts for each agent and for your fleet as a whole.
3. You SSH Into Servers to Check Agent Status
Terminal access to check logs and process status was fine for traditional software. For a fleet of AI agents, it's completely unscalable.
Fix: Use a centralized dashboard that shows all agents' status, logs, and metrics in one place.
4. Your Agents Aren't Using Structured Logging
Unstructured log output (plain text dumps) makes it nearly impossible to search, filter, and analyze agent behavior across your fleet.
Fix: Configure structured JSON logging with consistent fields: timestamp, agent ID, task ID, action type, and result.
5. You Don't Track Task Completion Rates
An agent can be "running" but failing 40% of its tasks. Without completion rate tracking, you'd never know until the impact is visible downstream.
Fix: Track success, failure, and timeout rates for every task type. Set alerts when rates deviate from baselines.
6. You've Been Surprised by an API Bill
If you've ever opened an API billing page and thought "wait, how did we spend that much?" — your cost monitoring is inadequate.
Fix: Real-time token tracking with hourly and daily cost projections. ClawHQ shows you cost trends and alerts you to anomalies.
7. You Can't Answer "How Many Agents Are Online Right Now?"
If this simple question requires you to check multiple systems, you need a fleet management solution.
Fix: A unified dashboard with real-time fleet status. One glance should tell you: X agents online, Y agents with issues, Z tasks in progress.
8. You Don't Have Alert Escalation Rules
Getting the same alert about a non-critical issue fifty times is as bad as not getting alerted at all. Alert fatigue leads to ignored critical alerts.
Fix: Configure tiered alerting: informational → warning → critical, with different notification channels for each level.
9. You Can't Reproduce Agent Failures
When an agent fails, can you see exactly what happened? The input it received, the reasoning steps it took, the tools it called, and where it went wrong? Without this observability, debugging is guesswork.
Fix: Enable trace logging that captures the full execution path. ClawHQ stores these traces and makes them searchable.
10. Different Team Members Have Different Views of Agent Status
If your frontend engineer thinks all agents are fine, but your DevOps person is seeing errors — you have a visibility fragmentation problem.
Fix: One source of truth. One dashboard. Everyone sees the same data. ClawHQ's team plans provide shared access with role-based permissions.
The Monitoring Maturity Checklist
Rate yourself on these ten points. If you're missing more than three, it's time to upgrade your monitoring. If you're missing more than five, you're operating at significant risk.
The good news: all ten of these gaps can be closed by connecting your agents to ClawHQ. It takes minutes, and the free tier covers up to 3 agents.
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