Autonomous agent systems powered by Foundation Models like Large Language Models are being used to solve complex, multi-step problems ranging from customer support to software engineering, which requires robust monitoring and observability systems.
AgentOps is a tool modeled after DevOps and MLOps, tailored for managing the life-cycle of FM-based autonomous agents, offering developers insight into agent workflows with features like session replays, LLM cost tracking, and compliance monitoring.
AgentOps refers to the end-to-end processes, tools, and frameworks required to design, deploy, monitor, and optimize FM-based autonomous agents in production.
The goals of AgentOps are observability, traceability, and reliability, which provide full visibility into the agent's execution and decision-making processes, captures detailed artifacts for debugging, optimization, compliance and ensuring consistent and trustworthy outputs through monitoring and robust workflows.
AgentOps offers developers a range of tools to monitor and optimize agents, including observability, tracing, prompt management, feedback integration, evaluation and testing, memory and knowledge integration, monitoring and metrics.
The taxonomy of traceable artifacts ensures consistency and clarity across the agent's lifecycle, making debugging and compliance more manageable.
Developers can install AgentOps using Python package manager, initialize it using an API key, instrument specific functions using the record_action decorator, track any named agent using the track_agent decorator and end the session by using the end_session method.
AgentOps also supports detecting recursive loops in agent workflows, logging them as part of the session to help identify infinite loops or excessive depth.
In conclusion, AgentOps steps in as an indispensable framework, offering developers the tools to monitor, optimize, and ensure compliance for AI agents throughout their lifecycle.