Why Telemetry Is the Backbone of Production AI

Datadog's Yrieix Garnier on Production AI, Trust, Cost and Failure Modes Yamini Kalra • February 5, 2026

From observability and cost control to agent-driven failure modes and the convergence of security and operations, product teams are being forced to rethink how artificial intelligence fits into existing enterprise architectures.

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Yrieix Garnier, vice president of products at Datadog, shares a product leader's perspective on the technical signals that separate sustainable AI deployments from those that quietly break under complexity, cost or operational blind spots.

At Datadog, Garnier leads product strategy across observability, infrastructure and cloud-native platforms. He has previously worked across product, engineering and platform roles focused on distributed systems, performance and reliability at scale.

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From a product leader's lens, what technical signals tell you early on that an ...