Nobody demos the Tuesday morning: your agent did something weird overnight and now you get to figure out what. Monitoring decides whether it survives contact with reality. - The dream is run traces on your phone, approving risky actions, waking only when a human is needed. That product barely exists yet. - What exists and matters more: observability. Step-by-step traces, tool calls, replays, alerts on failure patterns instead of discovering them in customer complaints. - Treat monitoring as a first-class criterion when you pick a framework, not something you bolt on later. Later never comes. - Check what the framework exposes: structured run logs, trace APIs, webhooks. No app saves you if those do not exist. Want the agent without the homework? PrivateLLM deploy sets up your private LLM on AWS for $50 plus usage.