AI Agent Telemetry: What You Must Log For Incident Response
If an AI agent incident happens and you can't answer:
what it saw,
what it did,
and why,
you don't have incident response.
You have guesswork.
In this episode, I break down the concept of the AI flight recorder: the telemetry, traces, and replay artifacts required to investigate agent incidents and actually fix them.
Topics covered:
agent observability
telemetry vs traditional logging
replay bundles
tool traces
retrieval provenance
policy decision logging
external side effects
forensic reconstruction
The key idea is simple:
If you can’t reconstruct the chain from context to action, you can’t secure the system.
Sources:
NIST AI 600-1:
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ai/...
AgentDojo:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13352
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