Dynatrace, a leading AI-powered observability platform, has released regional findings of The Pulse of Agentic AI 2026. The inaugural survey of 919 senior global leaders responsible for Agentic AI implementation reveals that enterprises are not stalling because they doubt AI, but because they cannot yet govern, validate or safely scale autonomous systems.
For the 200 APAC leaders surveyed, APAC-based organisations face the greatest technical challenges of any region surveyed (60%) for Agentic AI.
APAC-focused findings include:
- APAC places higher ROI expectations on Agentic AI for cybersecurity and data processing and reporting, but lower expectations for use in supply chain and logistics compared to AMER and Europe.
- For validating Agentic AI, respondents in APAC prioritise data quality checks at a higher percentage (56%) than respondents in the Americas (51%) and EMEA (47%), as well as security validations (45%) versus 34% for EMEA and 41% for the Americas.
- APAC organisations prioritise end-user and customer adoption and satisfaction more (43%) than AMER organisations (39%).
- For organisations in APAC, improving internal efficiency is a greater priority for their Agentic AI projects (56%) than for those in the Americas (49%) and EMEA (48%).
- Monitoring and training data quality during Agentic AI development is the top use of observability (74%) for APAC organisations, as well as monitoring integration with existing systems in implementation (64%) and continuous monitoring of agent performance in operations (65%).
- APAC organisations are most likely to deploy conversational and Generative AI (77%) compared to other regions.
“Agentic AI is becoming intrinsic to digital operations, but as the data shows, the ROI of these projects risks being hindered without stronger technical investment and initiatives,” said James McCready, VP APAC at Dynatrace.
