The Production Problem
Most agent systems are one memory leak away from a total business outage. This is why multi-agent monoliths fail, and why you need agent-native infrastructure.
The 2 AM Disaster
Imagine it's 2 AM. Your fraud detection agent has a memory leak. It consumes all available RAM and crashes. Because you packaged all your agents into one container, every other agent crashes too.Your customer refund agent, your inventory agent, and your order processor are all dead.Your entire business is offline because of one bug in one agent.
The Monolithic Trap
Frameworks like LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen make it easy to build. But the industry standard deployment pattern—packaging everything into a single Docker container—is a scaling dead end.
When you move from "it works on my laptop" to 3+ production agents, you hit ** Six Production Disasters**:
1. Blast Radius
One agent crashes → 100% outage. Healthy agents are killed by the shared process space.Result: 18 days of downtime per year.
2. Resource Coupling
Provisioning for the hungriest agent wastes millions.Result: 56% of compute budget burned on idle RAM.
3. Deployment Freeze
Fix a 10-line bug in one agent? Rebuild and redeploy the entire monolith.Result: 208 hours per year of system fragility.
4. Scaling Catastrophe
Scaling your email agent? You're forced to scale your heavy ML researcher too.Result: 9x resource bloat during traffic spikes.
5. Dependency Hell
Locked into one Python version and one framework forever.Result: Cannot adopt new tools without a total rewrite.
6. Noisy Neighbors
One greedy agent eats 100% CPU, starving the critical router.Result: Unpredictable latency and random timeouts.
The Consonant Solution: Agent Isolation
Consonant provides a distributed runtime where each agent runs in its own isolated container.
Instead of a monolithic mistake, you get a robust, self-healing system where agents scale, crash, and deploy independently.
The Core Pillars
- KAgent Runtime: Isolated agent execution in Kubernetes. Zero blast radius.
- Control Plane: Intelligent routing, policy enforcement (OPA), and state management.
- Observability: Complete distributed traces across every agent interaction.