# GPU instances account for 14 percent of compute costs.

*semiconductor · news · 2026-04-23 · iTWire*

## Key points

- Datadog now offers GPU Monitoring with unified visibility across GPU health, cost, and performance.
- GPU Monitoring links GPU fleet telemetry directly to the workloads and teams using those resources.
- The tool provides actionable forecasting, showing whether to purchase or reallocate GPUs for cost savings.
- Datadog’s dashboards give per-device GPU utilisation, memory, power, and thermal metrics instantly without extra setup.
- Layering LLM Observability enables tracing AI model issues directly to specific underlying GPU metrics in one platform.

**Companies:** Datadog, Inc.

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