How We Built Agent Observability at 100K Events/Sec

This is the first ever post I have ever created in dev.to, I am learning to follow the rules and provide content. At Stealth, we built AgentTrace , observability infrastructure for AI agent workflows. The premise sounds simple: capture what agents do, when, and why. In practice, getting there required three iterations of transport architecture, a schema pivot away from JSONB , and a production incident that silently lost 87% of trace data before anyone noticed. Here's what we learned. The Data M