Updated March 27, 2026
Phoenix is an open-source LLM observability and evaluation platform from Arize AI. It supports OpenTelemetry-based tracing across LLM and agent applications, with built-in evaluators, dataset management, and prompt playgrounds. Phoenix can be self-hosted with Docker or run via the Arize-hosted cloud version.
Datadog for agent reliability — monitors AI agents in production, surfacing root causes when agents fail, pick wrong tools, or exceed cost budgets.
Core capabilities each platform advertises.
What each tool does well, and the limitations to keep in mind.
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