Datadog LLM Observability: Monitor & Trace AI in Production

• Instrument LLM applications with Datadog's ddtrace SDK for full visibility into prompts, completions, and token usage
• Trace complex AI agent workflows including multi-turn conversations, tool calls, and decision paths with enterprise-grade debugging
• Implement production evaluations using managed checks (toxicity, relevancy) and custom LLM-as-a-judge evaluators
• Monitor and optimize LLM costs with automated cost tracking, budget alerts, and model comparison dashboards
• Run experiments to test prompt and model changes before production deployment using Datadog's experimentation framework
• Build secure AI systems with PII scrubbing, compliance patterns, and security monitoring for enterprise requirements
• Instrument RAG pipelines with custom spans for embedding, retrieval, and generation steps for complete workflow visibility
• Integrate LLM observability with existing Datadog APM, infrastructure, and security tools for unified enterprise monitoring

Are your LLM applications running blind in production?

You've deployed an AI agent, a RAG pipeline, or an LLM-powered chatbot.

But can you answer these questions?

• How much did that runaway agent loop cost before someone noticed?

• Why did hallucination rates spike last Tuesday?

• Which step in your RAG pipeline is returning irrelevant documents?

• How do you prove to compliance that you're protecting customer PII in LLM conversations?

  
  

If you can't answer these questions with data, you have a production problem.

Traditional APM tools see your LLM as a black box. They measure latency and error rates, but they can't show you token flows, prompt effectiveness, or quality degradation.

LLMs are fundamentally different—non-deterministic, multi-step, token-priced, and quality-sensitive.

You need LLM-native observability.

Introducing Datadog LLM Observability

This course is the definitive guide to Datadog's LLM Observability platform for enterprise teams.

If you're already using Datadog for APM, infrastructure, or security, this integrates directly into your existing stack—no new tools to learn, no separate dashboards to monitor.

What you'll build:

Throughout this course, you'll instrument a production-grade Customer Support AI Agent with:

• Multi-turn conversation tracing

• Tool integration (order lookup, refund processing)

• Custom quality evaluations

• Cost monitoring dashboard

• PII scrubbing compliance

  
  

This isn't a toy example—it's the architecture real enterprise teams deploy.