Safety & ops
What is DevOps?
DevOps for agents is how you deploy, monitor, and roll back agent systems in production.
Agents need versioning, canaries, and trace-backed incident review like any other service.
Why it matters
DevOps for agents covers deployment, monitoring, and rollback of agent systems in production. Agents need the same operational discipline as any other production service — versioning, canary deployments, error budgets, and incident review.
The additional challenge is that agent behavior depends on model performance, which can change with model updates.
Key takeaways
- 1Agents need the same DevOps discipline as traditional services.
- 2Model updates can change agent behavior — test after every update.
- 3Use canary deployments and error budgets for agent rollouts.
Common mistakes
- ✕Deploying agent changes without testing against eval fixtures.
- ✕Not monitoring agent behavior after model provider updates.
Related terms
Concept neighborhood
Terms linked from DevOps in the glossary graph.
- DevOps
- Agent Observability
- Trace