# From traces to experiments: A loop for improving AI agents

DevFeed: [From traces to experiments: A loop for improving AI agents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/from-traces-to-experiments-a-loop-for-improving-ai-agents-2276.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/from-traces-to-experiments-a-loop-for-improving-ai-agents/>)

Author: Adam Virani; Lukas Goetz-Weiss; Natasha Silva

Published: 2026-09-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Datadog | The Monitor blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/datadog-the-monitor-blog.md>)

Topics: [ai observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-observability.md>), [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>)

Tags: [agent-observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent-observability.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [ai-observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-observability.md>), [evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evaluation.md>), [experiments](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experiments.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>), [traces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traces.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how teams can use AI-agent trace data, evaluations, and production experiments to identify performance issues and test whether changes improve outcomes.

## Source excerpt

Learn how to read AI agent traces as a roadmap and how to run production experiments that measure whether improvements hold in production.