The latest articles on DEV Community by Dev Khant (@dev_khant). https://dev.to/dev_khant https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3802547%2F542ca220-c504-4437-ad32-152f7252333b.jpg https://dev.to/dev_khant en Dev Khant Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:21:03 +0000 https://dev.to/dev_khant/openalerts-monitoring-layer-for-agentic-frameworks-5p8 https://dev.to/dev_khant/openalerts-monitoring-layer-for-agentic-frameworks-5p8 <p>If you're building with agentic frameworks, you've probably been through this.</p> <p>Everything looks fine. Your agent is running. Users are chatting. Then someone messages you: "Hey, your bot hasn't replied in 20 minutes."</p> <p>You check the logs. Your LLM provider started throwing 401s an hour ago. Or a tool call failed mid-session and your agent just started making things up. Or your gateway stopped working and no one noticed.</p> <p>No alert. No error. Nothing.</p> <h2> The Problem </h2> <p>Tools like Datadog, PagerDuty, and Grafana are great for monitoring servers and infrastructure. But they don't catch agent-specific issues - things like expired API keys, sessions stuck in loops, tool calls failing quietly while the agent hallucinates, or message queues backing up with no warning.</p> <p>These aren't server problems. They're agent problems. And without something watching for them, you'll only find out when your users complain.</p> <h2> What We Built </h2> <p>I'm Dev, co-founder of Steadwing. We kept running into silent failures with our own agents in production. We looked for a simple alerting tool made for agent frameworks and couldn't find one.</p> <p>So we built <strong>OpenAlerts</strong> - an open-source alerting layer that watches your agents in real-time and tells you when something breaks.</p> <p>Just install it, connect a messaging channel, and you're good to go. No complicated setup.</p> <p>Here's what it does:</p> <ul> <li> <strong>8 real-time alert rules</strong> - covers LLM errors, infra failures, gateway downtime, stuck sessions, high error rates, queue buildup, tool failures, and heartbeat issues. You can adjust all thresholds and cooldowns.</li> <li> <strong>Multi-channel alerts</strong> - get notified on Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, or Signal.</li> <li> <strong>LLM-enriched alerts</strong> - optionally uses your model to add a plain-English summary and a suggested fix to each alert. If the LLM call fails, it just sends the regular alert.</li> <li> <strong>Built-in dashboard</strong> - a live view of events, logs, and system health. Runs locally, nothing extra to set up.</li> <li> <strong>Zero-token chat commands</strong> - <code>/health</code>, <code>/alerts</code>, and <code>/dashboard</code> work in any connected channel and don't use any LLM tokens.</li> <li> <strong>Framework support</strong> - works with OpenClaw, OpenManus, and Nanobot today, with more coming.</li> </ul> <h2> Open Source &amp; Free </h2> <p>With Apache-2.0 license.</p> <p>👉 <strong>GitHub:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/steadwing/openalerts" rel="noopener noreferrer">github.com/steadwing/openalerts</a><br> 👉 <strong>Discord:</strong> <a href="https://discord.gg/4rUP86tSXn" rel="noopener noreferrer">Join the community</a><br> 👉 <strong>Website:</strong> <a href="https://www.openalerts.dev/" rel="noopener noreferrer">openalerts.dev</a></p> <p>Feel free to try it out, star it, and share any feedback 🙏</p> ai opensource github programming