New Relic Now virtual event June 23, 2026 announced Preflight GA. CPO Brian Emerson coined “agent debt” — operational tax from unverified AI-generated code shifting bottlenecks from developers to SREs.
Preflight: open-source observability for AI coding agents with token spend, call volumes, cost forecasts, tool-selection quality, replayable sessions, and team dashboard. Extends production monitoring into the IDE.
2026 State of AI Coding report cited: average production outage cost doubled YoY to ~$2M. Hanover Research study (200 US tech leaders): 67% say AI generates 51–75% of weekly code.
OpenTelemetry chosen as telemetry standard for vendor-neutral agent instrumentation.