7.3 Building a Trace Investigation Tool

Agentic AI: Projects & Engineering Mastery

A book-shaped table of contents for Agentic AI: Projects & Engineering Mastery: hands-on practitioner builds, Principal/Staff-level technical leadership, and the lookup appendices and vendor/framework reference notes for the whole series. Book 6 of the AI Systems Engineering series.

7.1 Connecting Agents to Grafana

Wiring an agent's tool layer to Grafana's HTTP API and Prometheus datasource — authentication, the metrics query surface, and the error handling an agent needs when a query fails mid-investigation.

3. Build an Agent with Memory

Hand-rolling short-term and long-term memory for an agent — SQLite-backed storage for conversation history and investigation history across sessions.

4.1 Building an Operational Knowledge Base

Turning runbooks, playbooks, architecture documents, incident reports, and best practices into a RAG corpus an investigation agent can actually retrieve from.

4.2 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Why RAG exists, document processing and chunking strategy, embeddings, vector database choice, and the retrieval pipeline that feeds relevant context into an agent's prompt.