Sydney, 18 February 2026 – Dynatrace, the leading AI-powered observability platform, has today released the 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 out 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 their counterparts 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.
“For organisations across Asia-Pacific, technical challenges are emerging as the primary barrier to advancing agentic AI projects,” said James McCready, VP APAC at Dynatrace. “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.”
To see the full global findings, download the full report here: The Pulse of Agentic AI 2026: Balancing innovation with control from pilot to production.
Methodology
This report is based on a global survey of 919 senior leaders and decision makers directly involved in or responsible for agentic AI development and implementation in large enterprises with annual revenues of $100 million or more. It was conducted and analysed by Qualtrics partner Y2 Analytics on behalf of Dynatrace during November and December 2025. The sample included 206 respondents in the US, 85 in Latin America, 380 in Europe, 81 in the Middle East, and 196 in Asia Pacific.
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