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Every digital team has experienced some version of this.
A KPI drops. An alert fires. A few messages start to circulate. Someone opens a dashboard, someone else questions the data, and before long multiple teams are involved, trying to understand what changed.
By the time the answer comes together, hours are gone.
Sometimes the issue is real. Sometimes nothing is actually wrong.
Either way, the time is lost. And when the issue is real, the impact has often already reached customers.
That’s the reality of KPI monitoring today.
It’s very good at detecting change. It’s just not designed to explain it.
KPI monitoring was never the real problem.
Most teams don’t have a monitoring problem. They have an investigation problem.
Organizations already have visibility. They have dashboards, alerts, and reporting systems tracking conversion, revenue, engagement, and key journeys. These tools do what they were designed to do. They surface change.
The problem begins after that.
Once a KPI moves, someone still has to investigate:
- pulling data across multiple tools
- connecting behavior to outcomes
- validating whether the signal is real
- translating it into something actionable
That work is manual. It is slow. And it depends on a small number of people who know how to navigate the data.
At Vans, for example, a single analyst supports digital performance across 17 countries in EMEA. Every KPI shift, every question, and every request ultimately flows through that role.
Even with strong dashboards in place, it is impossible to investigate everything.
This is not a tooling problem. It is a model problem.
Monitoring stops at detection. The real work starts after.
What changes with agentic KPI monitoring.
Agentic KPI monitoring changes where the process begins.
Instead of detecting change and handing off the work, Felix continuously analyzes the business in the background. When something meaningful shifts, it does not just raise a flag.
It builds the answer.
That includes:
- identifying the behaviors and journeys driving the change
- connecting signals across sessions, systems, and teams
- quantifying the impact in business terms
- assembling a clear explanation of what happened
By the time a team sees the change, the investigation is already complete.
The difference in practice.
Before:
- Alert fires
- Analyst investigates
- Multiple tools are used
- Hours to reach an answer
After:
- Change is detected
- Explanation is delivered
- Impact is clear
- Teams move directly to action
Teams no longer start with:
“What happened?”
They start with:
“Here’s what changed. Here’s why it matters. Here’s what to do next.”
What this looks like in practice.
The day starts with answers.
At Vans, the day no longer starts with dashboards.
It starts with an answer.
Each morning, the team reviews a business overview generated by Felix. It highlights what changed across the digital experience, why it changed, and where to focus first.
No one asks, “What should we look at today?”
They already know.
Detecting what would otherwise go unnoticed.
Not every issue is obvious.
In one case, Felix identified a drop in add-to-cart performance. The issue was limited to specific products and even specific sizes within those products.
Across thousands of SKUs and multiple markets, this is the kind of issue that rarely surfaces through traditional monitoring.
It doesn’t trigger a major alert. It doesn’t show up clearly in dashboards. And it is unlikely to be found manually.
But it still impacts customers and revenue quietly.
Because Felix surfaced it early, the team was able to resolve it before it spread further.
Moving from metrics to decisions.
Traditional monitoring answers one question:
What changed?
Agentic monitoring answers the questions teams actually need:
- Why did it change?
- Who was affected?
- How significant is the impact?
- What should we do next?
That shift changes what happens next.
Teams don’t spend time aligning on what the data says. They move directly to deciding what to do about it.
Expanding access to understanding.
Before Felix, most questions required an analyst.
That created a bottleneck.
With Felix, teams engage directly with the data using natural language and receive explanations grounded in the same context. Marketing, merchandising, product, and operations teams all work from the same understanding.
The role of the analyst evolves.
Less time answering routine questions and more time driving strategy and impact.
Why this model works.
Traditional monitoring stops too early.
It detects change, then hands the problem to a human.
Agentic monitoring extends the process.
It combines:
- continuous detection
- automated investigation
- business context
- transparent reasoning
Because Felix operates on complete experience data, it connects signals that would otherwise remain isolated. Because it shows how conclusions are reached, teams can validate and trust the output.
At Vans, the team describes Felix as a junior analyst.
Not because it replaces expertise.
But because it performs the investigative work that would otherwise take hours.
Redefining KPI monitoring.
KPI monitoring has always been about visibility.
It helped teams see what was happening.
But visibility alone is no longer enough.
As digital experiences move faster and become more complex, the value of monitoring shifts from reporting metrics to delivering understanding.
Agentic KPI monitoring reflects that shift.
It moves beyond tracking numbers to explaining the dynamics behind them.
So when something changes, teams don’t just see it.
They understand it.
And they know what to do next.
See Felix Agentic in action.
The shift from detection to understanding is easier to see than to describe.
If you want to understand how agentic KPI monitoring works in your own environment, the best place to start is with a live walkthrough.
Request a demo of Felix Agentic to see how your team can move from alerts to answers—and from investigation to action.
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