--- title: What is AgentOps? | daily.dev description: AgentOps is the operational layer for AI agents running in production. Unlike single LLM calls, agents make multiple chained decisions, invoke tools, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-agentops--1yi35un3o twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What is AgentOps? | daily.dev og:description: AgentOps is the operational layer for AI agents running in production. Unlike single LLM calls, agents make multiple chained decisions, invoke tools, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-agentops--1yi35un3o og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1YI35uN3O.png og:image:alt: What is AgentOps? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What is AgentOps? **[portkey](https://daily.dev/sources/portkey)** · 7 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AgentOps is the operational layer for AI agents running in production. Unlike single LLM calls, agents make multiple chained decisions, invoke tools, and accumulate costs across steps — creating challenges that standard per-request monitoring can't address. Key capabilities include full run tracing, token/cost tracking, runtime guardrail enforcement, and model access governance. The post explains why reasoning errors compound, tool failures go silent, and policy violations only emerge from sequences of actions. It then presents Portkey's AI Gateway as a shared control plane that handles agent registration, model catalog governance, workspace-level spend caps, and framework-agnostic tracing across LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents SDK, and custom stacks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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