// GLOSSARY -- POLICY ENFORCEMENT
What is Agent Financial Observability?
End-to-end visibility into an AI agent's financial activity — from authorisation and spend to settlement and reconciliation — providing the data needed to enforce policies and detect anomalies in real time.
WHY IT MATTERS
You can't enforce what you can't see. Financial observability provides the real-time data stream that spending policies act on — which agents are spending, how fast, on what, and whether it matches expected patterns.
This goes beyond logging. Observability means actionable, real-time visibility that drives automated responses (pause the agent, alert the team, tighten limits).
HOW POLICYLAYER USES THIS
Intercept's audit trail provides financial observability for every tool call — who, what, when, and whether it was allowed or blocked.