MTMike Tickstemintickstem.hashnode.dev·May 26 · 4 min readHeartbeat monitoring for AI agent pipelinesYou deploy an AI agent to run nightly. It summarises data, writes a report, sends a Slack message. You set up uptime monitoring on the endpoint. The monitor stays green. Three days later you notice th10
MTMike Tickstemintickstem.hashnode.dev·May 26 · 4 min readMonitoring AI agents in productionTraditional monitoring asks one question: is the server up? If the endpoint returns 200, everything is fine. AI agents break that assumption. The server can be perfectly healthy while the agent silent00
MTMike Tickstemintickstem.hashnode.dev·May 26 · 6 min readScheduling recurring tasks in AI agent workflowsWhen you build an AI agent that does something useful — summarises documents, monitors a feed, sends a report, syncs data — you eventually hit the same question: how do I make it run on a schedule? No00
MTMike Tickstemintickstem.hashnode.dev·May 21 · 6 min readAdd production monitoring to Claude Code apps in minutesAI coding agents are getting good at writing application code. The gap is the operational layer — the cron jobs, health checks, and monitoring that keep a production app running. Tickstem's MCP server00
MTMike Tickstemintickstem.hashnode.dev·May 21 · 7 min readHow to detect and block temporary email addresses at signupTemp mail services give anyone a working inbox with no registration. They pass every syntax check, often pass MX validation, and vanish within hours. Here's how to reliably detect and block them befor00