Observe AI Agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with IBM Instana

This article demonstrates how to integrate IBM Instana Observability with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime to monitor AI agent behavior and performance.

• IBM Instana accepts OpenTelemetry signals from AgentCore for unified observability across AI agent workloads
• Strands-based agents deployed to AgentCore Runtime emit traces, spans, metrics, and logs via OpenTelemetry
• Integration enables visibility into reasoning chains, tool invocations, model latency, and decision-making patterns
• Step-by-step implementation includes agent configuration, deployment, and telemetry visualization in Instana dashboard
• Instana Analytics reveals nested agent operations, performance metrics, and anomalies in real-time
• IBM Instana available as SaaS through AWS Marketplace with 14-day free trial option

This integration provides organizations with comprehensive observability for production AI agents, enabling issue diagnosis and performance optimization through a unified platform.