Agent Management Platform
Definition
An agent management platform is one console to register, monitor, govern and optimise every AI agent a business runs, whichever vendor or harness each agent lives in. It is a control plane, not another agent, and its defining property is neutrality: it manages the agents you bought, not just the ones you built.
Gartner formalised the category in 2026, and the label promptly got claimed by three neighbours that are not the thing: observability tools (which only see agents an engineer instrumented), gateways (which only see traffic routed through them), and platform control towers (which only govern their own vendor's agents).
The test is one question: can it register, monitor and govern an agent it did not build, on a platform it does not own? Sentry's is the neutral kind, delivered as a managed service, and currently in free beta.
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