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.
OpenObserve is an open-source observability platform for logs, metrics, traces, and LLM apps, priced per GB with no seat or host fees.
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