AgentOps: Enabling Observability of LLM Agents

TL;DR

This paper introduces a taxonomy for AgentOps to improve observability of LLM agents, enhancing AI safety by enabling better monitoring, logging, and analytics of agent behavior.

Contribution

It presents a comprehensive taxonomy of AgentOps artifacts and data, developed through a systematic study, to guide the design of observability infrastructure for LLM agents.

Findings

Developed a taxonomy of AgentOps artifacts and data

Mapped existing tools to the taxonomy

Provides a reference for designing monitoring systems

Abstract

Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains, gaining extensive attention from academia and industry. However, these agents raise significant concerns on AI safety due to their autonomous and non-deterministic behavior, as well as continuous evolving nature . From a DevOps perspective, enabling observability in agents is necessary to ensuring AI safety, as stakeholders can gain insights into the agents' inner workings, allowing them to proactively understand the agents, detect anomalies, and prevent potential failures. Therefore, in this paper, we present a comprehensive taxonomy of AgentOps, identifying the artifacts and associated data that should be traced throughout the entire lifecycle of agents to achieve effective observability. The taxonomy is developed based on a systematic mapping study of existing AgentOps tools. Our taxonomy serves as a reference template for developers to design and implement AgentOps infrastructure that supports monitoring, logging, and analytics. thereby ensuring AI safety.