“For example, 10 agents making 3 attempts each results in 30 executions, even before considering tool-call fan-out. If each attempt triggers multiple APIs or CI jobs, downstream work increases faster than the number of agent runs.”
Quote · datadoghq.com
From “How to operate shared platforms safely at agent scale”, found 2026-10-14.
Retries multiply the load on shared services. Datadog’s answers are retry budgets, bounded concurrency and circuit breakers.