What HiveBoard Sees

The questions your agents can finally answer

38 questions
One dashboard · most answered in under 5 seconds
The Glance
2 seconds · 5 questions
1Are my agents running?
→ Heartbeat dots on agent cards
2Does anything need my attention?
→ Attention badge on The Hive header
3Is anything stuck?
→ Stuck counter in Stats Ribbon
4Is work flowing?
→ Throughput mini-charts
5Is anything happening right now?
→ Activity Stream live feed
The Investigation
2–5 min · 11 questions
Agent-level
6What is this agent doing right now?
7Is the heartbeat healthy?
8Does it have pending work?
9Has it reported problems?
Task-level
10What steps did this task take?
11What was the plan, where did it fail?
12Which tool failed?
13Which LLM was called, what did it see?
14How long did each step take?
15Was it escalated? Needs approval?
16Can I share this investigation?
→ Every timeline has a permalink
The Optimization
10–15 min · 12 questions
Cost
17How much are agents costing me?
18Expensive models for cheap tasks?
19Why did costs spike?
20Is there prompt bloat?
21Similar agents, different costs?
Invisible failures
22Tasks silently dropped?
23Queue growing, agent says idle?
24Credentials failing silently?
25Heartbeat doing less than before?
Health signals
26Approvals backing up?
27Which action consistently fails?
28Same issue recurring unresolved?
The Review
20–30 min · 10 questions
Performance
29Success rate improving?
30Tasks getting faster or slower?
31Which agent fails most?
32Better after deploys?
Cost accountability
33Total infrastructure cost?
34Cost per task trending up or down?
35Can I prove ROI?
Fleet health
36How many agents in production?
37Overall fleet health?
38Ready to scale?
Questions Only HiveBoard Answers
Question Why others miss it
Is my agent stuck? No heartbeat concept. No liveness beyond "last API call."
What's in the work queue? No intent pipeline. They see what happened, not what's waiting.
Did it drop a task silently? No queue-to-completion tracking.
Is it waiting for a human? No approval workflow concept.
Plan vs. actual — what diverged? No plan-step tracking.
Same issue recurring ×50? No self-reporting. No recurrence tracking.
Heartbeat doing less than before? Heartbeat is binary: alive or dead. No payload analysis.
Progressive Instrumentation — Start Small, Go Deep
Layer 0
Presence
3 lines of code · answers questions 1–5
Agent cards, heartbeats, stuck detection, fleet health. Your agents light up on the dashboard.
Layer 1
Timelines
Add @decorators · answers questions 6–16
Task tables, action timelines, success rates, duration tracking, permalinks for investigation.
Layer 2
Full Story
Add rich events · answers questions 17–38
Cost Explorer, LLM call detail, plans, issues, queues, approvals — the complete picture.
HIVEBOARD · Agent-Level Observability for Production AI · Part 3 of the Trilogy
"Your agents are working. Are they healthy? Now you can know."