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Seven agent monitoring tools priced against the same workload: 50,000 runs a month at 12 steps each. Self-hosted Langfuse wins on cost and audit depth — but only one of these tools sits in the request path where it can actually stop a runaway agent, and that is the part you have to build yourself.
August 11, 2026 · 16 min read
An arXiv benchmark of eleven production voice-agent stacks ran 3,300 simulated calls against a real database. The researchers found task completion collapses on complicated calls, per-call cost varies thirteenfold with no link to quality, and a verification leak hides inside correct refusals.
August 1, 2026 · 13 min read