# What we learned about AI agent security by monitoring our agents

DevFeed: [What we learned about AI agent security by monitoring our agents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-we-learned-about-ai-agent-security-by-monitoring-our-agents-2225.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/ai-agent-security-lessons/>)

Author: Alexa Levine; Emmanuelle Lejeail; Mallory Mooney

Published: 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

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

Tags: [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [ai-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-security.md>), [identity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity.md>), [logs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logs.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>)

## AI overview

Datadog describes security monitoring practices for AI agents, focusing on inventorying components and correlating session-wide telemetry to investigate actions, sensitive-data access, identities, and tool calls.

## Source excerpt

Learn what we discovered about AI agent security by monitoring our agents, from creating an inventory of agent components to tracing sensitive data and tool calls.