AWS CloudWatch Omni goes after the hardest question in agentic AI: Why did the agent do that?

# AWS CloudWatch Omni Tackles AI Agents' "Black Box" Problem AWS has released a new tool to solve a critical problem with AI agents: they can appear to be working perfectly—no crashes, fast responses, no errors—while still giving you completely wrong answers or making poor decisions. Traditional monitoring only checks if systems are running smoothly, but it can't explain *why* an AI agent made a particular choice, so companies need new ways to peer inside these systems and understand their reasoning.
For decades, the observability industry has answered one basic question: Is it running? Agentic artificial intelligence breaks that model. An agent can return a clean response, meet its latency target and throw no errors, yet still give a customer the wrong answer, call the wrong tool or pull from a
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