Production Ready: Observability, Governance and Deployment

dotnet covers what’s needed to take an AI agent from a local/console-style setup to something that can run reliably in production.

Overview

The video focuses on four production-readiness areas for an agent-based application:

• Observability: Using OpenTelemetry traces and logs to see what the agent did on each turn.
• Governance and data protection: Using Microsoft Purview for governance and protecting data.
• Evaluation: Adding evaluation so you can detect whether quality holds up as the SDK continues to change.
• Deployment: Deploying to Foundry Hosted Agents so the agent runs as a service rather than a console app.

It closes with a walkthrough of a refresh-prompt workflow presented as a repeatable maintenance pattern.