Updated March 27, 2026
Datadog's LLM Observability extends its industry-leading APM platform to AI applications. It provides end-to-end tracing from LLM calls to infrastructure metrics, prompt and completion tracking, cost analysis, and quality evaluation—all integrated with Datadog's existing monitoring, logging, and alerting stack. Ideal for enterprises already using Datadog who want unified observability across traditional and AI workloads.
Open-source MLOps platform with comprehensive GenAI tracing, evaluation, prompt management, and AI gateway. Maintained by the Linux Foundation.
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What each tool does well, and the limitations to keep in mind.
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