Datadog AI Guard is a defense-in-depth product designed to inspect, block, and govern AI behavior in real time. AI Guard is built to plug in directly with existing Datadog tracing and observability workflows to secure agentic AI systems in production. It sits inline with your AI app/agent and layers on top of existing prompt templates, guardrails, and policy checks, to secure your LLM workflows in the critical path.

AI Guard protects against prompt injection, jailbreaking, and sensitive data exfiltration attacks with Prompt Protection and Tool Protection. Together, these capabilities protect against the agentic lethal trifecta - privileged system access, exposure to untrusted data, and outbound communication. These protections work for any target AI model, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, VertexAI, and Azure.

For information on how to set up AI Guard, see Get Started with AI Guard.

Further reading

Additional helpful documentation, links, and articles:

Get Started with AI GuardDOCUMENTATION LLM guardrails: Best practices for deploying LLM apps securelyBLOG Protect agentic AI applications with Datadog AI GuardBLOG