Observability

Observability on the Paranet refers to the ability of actors to monitor and analyze their own states, other actors’ states, and historical and real-time data stored in the persistent ledger, enabling dynamic decision-making, adaptation, and security in a distributed, autonomous computing environment. Unlike traditional observability tools that centralize metrics and logs for external analysis, Paranet observability is decentralized, actor-driven, and deeply integrated with Paraflow and PnCP giving developers access to the entire paranet(s) of their organization.

In addition to events in the ledger, actors can observe other actors’ state in the workflow. Paraflow is an interpretable language such that its states (past, current, future) can be interpreted by other actors (human using tools and digital in code).

The Paranet is a semantic, hierarchically structured network for planning and communication, distinct from the flat topic spaces of pub-sub systems like Kafka and ROS2. Everything—actors, skills, exchanged data, states, and ledger events—is observable, enabling distributed, deterministic coordination in a skill network.