# Judgment Labs opens agent monitoring after customers reported agent failures > Source: > Published: 2026-10-27 17:20:11+00:00 # Judgment Labs opens agent monitoring after customers reported agent failures **CEO Alex Shan says manual evaluation pipelines lagged behind changing agents; the startup announced $32M in seed and Series A funding in May.** By [Ryan Merket](https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket) · Published Primary source: [x.com](https://x.com/alexshander03/status/2115111288066171211) ## Why it matters Judgment is selling a workflow for turning agent traces into detected issues, monitoring rules and tests. Its launch puts that approach against established evaluation and observability tools; the $32M backing gives the team room to pursue the category, while customer-scale and performance evidence remain company-reported. [Judgment Labs](https://www.judgmentlabs.ai/) opened its agent-monitoring and improvement platform to general access on October 27th, betting that production traces from long-running AI agents can help teams find recurring failures before customers do. Co-founder and CEO [Alex Shan (@alexshander03)](https://x.com/alexshander03) said early customers were relying on manual review and learning about some problems from users. When you purchase through links in our articles, [we may earn a small commission](https://runtimewire.com/affiliate-monetization-standards). This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.