Jun 8, 2026Engineering
Datadog vs New Relic: Observability for AI-Powered Commerce in 2026
Observability debt compounds faster than technical debt. The first three months after skipping proper APM setup feel fine. Then you ship a product recommendation engine powered by an LLM inference layer, traffic doubles, and you spend two weeks debugging a p99 latency spike with nothing but application logs and intuition. By that point, the cost of setting up proper observability would have been a rounding error.