Gartner® thought leadership report: 2026 Market Guide for AI Evaluation and Observability Platforms

Is your team struggling to reliably evaluate and improve AI agent performance? The right evaluation and observability platform helps AI leaders move beyond subjective guesswork to systematically measure quality, safety, and alignment.

Access the Gartner® Market Guide for AI Evaluation and Observability Platforms, provided by Weights & Biases on a complimentary basis, to learn how to:

• Use a four-step framework to implement Eval-Driven Development (EDD), unlocking measurable standards for performance, safety, and alignment
• Build a continuous feedback loop that turns production observability data into datasets for stronger preproduction testing
• Assess AI evaluation and observability platforms based on key criteria, including real-time security guardrails and domain-specific datasets

Don’t let the inherent opacity of AI systems undermine user trust. Learn how to implement a robust evaluation and observability strategy—and turn AI reliability into a strategic advantage.

Gartner, Market Guide for AI Evaluation and Observability Platforms, Manjunath Bhat, Alex Coqueiro, Wilco van Ginkel, 2 February 2026.

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