AI Agent Observability | Datadog

Full-stack Observability for Agentic AI

Trace, evaluate, and secure your AI agents with offline experimentation and production observability in one platform.

Datadog Agent Observability gives teams complete visibility into how their AI agents behave in production—tracing every decision, tool call, and handoff across single- and multi-agent workflows. AI engineering and platform teams see exactly how outcomes are produced and where they break, correlated with the cost, latency, and quality of each run. With real-time alerts, automated evaluations, and end-to-end traces tied to your backend services, Agent Observability helps teams catch wrong actions and runaway loops early, secure agents against prompt injection and data leaks, and prove the value of their agentic AI investments.

Why Datadog?

Production-Scale Tracing

Run high-volume LLM workloads on production-proven tracing infrastructure


Unify the AI Lifecycle

Unify tracing, testing, experiments, and evaluations in one platform across dev and prod


Built-In Guardrails & Controls

Monitor cost, latency, and output quality with actionable alerts and built-in access controls


End-to-End Root Cause

Trace failures across frontend sessions, LLM execution, and backend services in a single view


1,000+ Turn-Key Integrations, Including

Product Benefits

Trace Every Step of Your Agents—From Prompt to Backend Service

  • Visualize every decision and action in your multi-agent workflows, from planning steps to tool usage, to understand exactly how outcomes are produced
  • Pinpoint issues fast by tracing interactions between agents, tools, and models to find the root cause of errors, latency spikes, or poor responses
  • Connect LLM traces to backend microservice, API, and infrastructure metrics to resolve issues in full-stack context—see when a slow database or starved GPU is the real problem
  • Link agent behavior to real user sessions in RUM and cut MTTR by tracing failures across frontend, agent execution, and backend in one platform
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Monitor the Performance, Cost, and Health of Your Agentic AI Workflows in Real Time

  • Keep costs under control by tracking key operational metrics like tokens, usage patterns, and latency trends across all major LLMs in one place
  • Take action as issues arise with real-time alerts on anomalies such as latency spikes, error surges, or unexpected usage changes
  • Surface opportunities for performance and cost optimization by drilling into detailed end-to-end data on token usage and latency across the entire LLM chain
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Continuously Evaluate and Enhance the Quality of Your AI Responses

  • Easily spot and address quality concerns, such as missing responses or off-topic content, with out-of-the-box quality evaluations
  • Detect hallucinations and improve business-critical KPIs with custom evaluations aligned to your KPIs
  • Build and version golden datasets from real production traces, and use human review and annotation to label outputs at scale
  • Detect drift by isolating low-quality prompt-response clusters, and fix issues at the source in embeddings, retrieval, or prompt construction
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Validate Prompt and Model Changes Before You Ship

  • Get full visibility into every experiment run with automatic tracing that captures evaluation scores, latency, errors, and token usage
  • Compare prompts, models, and configurations side by side against the same production-derived datasets to see which performs best before rollout
  • Resolve regressions faster by isolating low-scoring test cases and inspecting tool calls, retrieval steps, and intermediate outputs in the execution trace
  • Keep testing repeatable across teams with versioned datasets and shared performance analysis in one place
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Resolve Quality and Reliability Issues Before They Impact Performance

  • Quickly investigate the root cause of hallucinations, low-quality outputs, and other anomalies with complete trace visibility across your LLM chain
  • Fix issues at the source, whether in embeddings, retrieval settings, or prompt construction, to improve reliability before you scale
  • Debug complex RAG workflows by pinpointing and correcting errors in embeddings, retrieval, and context injection steps
  • Feed resolved issues into performance monitoring to ensure improvements are reflected in cost, latency, and accuracy metrics over time
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Real results from Datadog customers

400% Faster MTTR
TWINE
40% Lower token usage per task
FINTOOL
15% Faster deployment
APPFOLIO

Thousands of Customers Love & Trust the Datadog Platform