AWS Launches CloudWatch Omni For Watching AI Agents
AWS introduced Amazon CloudWatch Omni on September 22, 2026, and says it is generally available now. AWS describes it as a unified observability experience for application and AI workloads, and as a purpose built observability, evaluation and experimentation solution for AI agents.
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AWS launched a tool for watching what AI agents actually do. It is generally available today.
CloudWatch Omni is built for observing and evaluating AI agents. AWS says it captures every trace your agent produces.
Agent behavior is not deterministic. AWS says a prompt change can degrade response quality even when standard metrics show no errors.
Developers get an extension inside the code editor. Operators get a web experience outside the AWS console.
It ships with seventeen built in evaluators. AWS says the editor extension is free and you do not need an AWS account to start.
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- Today, Amazon CloudWatch introduces CloudWatch Omni, a unified observability experience for application and AI workloads that is app-centric, AI-powered, built on open standards, and delivered off-console.(AWS News Blog (aws.amazon.com), first party article titled "Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads", written by Daniel Abib, published 22 SEP 2026; read from the alert-time snapshot captured 2026-09-22T22:23:13Z.)
- Amazon CloudWatch Omni is now generally available.(AWS News Blog (aws.amazon.com), first party article titled "Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads", written by Daniel Abib, published 22 SEP 2026; read from the alert-time snapshot captured 2026-09-22T22:23:13Z.)
- CloudWatch Omni is a purpose-built observability, evaluation, and experimentation solution for AI agents.(AWS News Blog (aws.amazon.com), first party article titled "Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads", written by Daniel Abib, published 22 SEP 2026; read from the alert-time snapshot captured 2026-09-22T22:23:13Z.)
- CloudWatch Omni captures every trace and includes built-in evaluators for correctness, coherence, retrieval quality, and tool selection, among others.(AWS News Blog (aws.amazon.com), first party article titled "Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads", written by Daniel Abib, published 22 SEP 2026; read from the alert-time snapshot captured 2026-09-22T22:23:13Z.)
- Agent behavior is non-deterministic: a prompt change can degrade response quality even when standard metrics show no errors.(AWS News Blog (aws.amazon.com), first party article titled "Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads", written by Daniel Abib, published 22 SEP 2026; read from the alert-time snapshot captured 2026-09-22T22:23:13Z.)
- Teams spend hours manually reviewing logs across multiple systems, unable to pinpoint what changed or why.(AWS News Blog (aws.amazon.com), first party article titled "Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads", written by Daniel Abib, published 22 SEP 2026; read from the alert-time snapshot captured 2026-09-22T22:23:13Z.)
- Developers get a native extension inside VS Code and Kiro (the currently supported IDEs), where traces appear as you run your agent with a playground and evaluators a click away.(AWS News Blog (aws.amazon.com), first party article titled "Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads", written by Daniel Abib, published 22 SEP 2026; read from the alert-time snapshot captured 2026-09-22T22:23:13Z.)
- Operators get a standalone web experience, separate from the AWS Management Console to monitor the fleet, accessible through SSO with no AWS console needed.(AWS News Blog (aws.amazon.com), first party article titled "Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads", written by Daniel Abib, published 22 SEP 2026; read from the alert-time snapshot captured 2026-09-22T22:23:13Z.)
- CloudWatch Omni includes 17 built-in evaluators for metrics like coherence, helpfulness, faithfulness, and routing correctness.(AWS News Blog (aws.amazon.com), first party article titled "Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads", written by Daniel Abib, published 22 SEP 2026; read from the alert-time snapshot captured 2026-09-22T22:23:13Z.)
- The IDE extension is free to use. You don't need an AWS account to get started.(AWS News Blog (aws.amazon.com), first party article titled "Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads", written by Daniel Abib, published 22 SEP 2026; read from the alert-time snapshot captured 2026-09-22T22:23:13Z.)