AI agents blur the boundary between software execution and operational judgment. That makes traditional uptime monitoring necessary but insufficient.
A useful agent event should include intent, outcome, duration, cost, affected records and an idempotency key. With those fields, teams can distinguish a retry from duplicate work, detect cost loops and connect an agent decision to what changed downstream.
The most important watcher is rarely agent failed. It is a compound promise such as invoice audit completes before 07:00, covers every new invoice, changes no paid record without approval and stays below its daily cost budget.
InternalStatus gives custom agents a small, signed event contract and places their outcomes beside deployments, payments and customer-impacting incidents. Accountability becomes part of the operating system rather than an afterthought.