Apica CTO warns agentic AI triples telemetry volume

Enterprise IT organizations face an unprecedented surge in telemetry data volume driven by agentic AI workloads, with Omdia research indicating a projected 9.5x average increase over the next two years. The author argues that existing observability platforms, which ingest all raw data, will break under these volumes, leading to unsustainable costs where 69% of organizations report observability expenses exceeding compute and infrastructure. Consequently, nearly six in ten enterprises have already delayed or terminated AI deployments due to monitoring costs, creating significant security and operational risks that organizations are attempting to mitigate through telemetry pipelines. Open article →