For the second year running, AI is the primary driver behind observability investments. Nowhere is that momentum stronger than in Asia-Pacific, where organizations are adopting AI observability faster than anywhere else globally.

The 2026 Observability Forecast (APAC Edition) explores how 950 IT and engineering leaders across India, Japan, ANZ, and Southeast Asia are balancing observability adoption speed with outage economics.

Key Findings & Regional Benchmarks

• Leading the globe in AI observability adoption APAC leads the world across every AI capability metric tracked: 
• The high cost of speed: outage economics High-impact outages hit APAC harder and more frequently than any other region. 47.6% of APAC organizations experience high-impact outages weekly or more often (vs. 36.2% globally).
• APAC leads on agentic monitoring Unlike other regions struggling with unmonitored AI agents, APAC has largely closed its visibility gap.