Agent Development Kit (ADK)

Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) gives you the building blocks to create powerful agentic systems. These multi-step agents can plan, loop, collaborate, and call tools dynamically to solve problems on their own. However, this flexibility also makes them unpredictable, leading to potential issues like incomplete outputs, unexpected costs, and security risks. To help you manage this complexity, Datadog LLM Observability now provides automatic instrumentation for systems built with ADK. This integration gives you the visibility to monitor agent behavior, track costs and errors, and optimize agents for response quality and safety through offline experimentation and online evaluation without extensive manual setup.

This is significant as agentic systems are complex, and interagent interactions and the non-deterministic nature of LLMs makes it difficult to predict responses. 

Common risks when running these agents include:

• Pace of change: New foundation models drop weekly and “best-practice” prompting patterns change just as fast. Teams must ...