title: Configuration description: Learn how to configure topics and evaluations for your LLM applications on the Configuration page. further_reading:

• link: “/llm_observability/terms/” tag: “Documentation” text: “Learn about Evaluations”
• link: “/llm_observability/submit_evaluations/” tag: “Documentation” text: “Learn how to submit Evaluations”
• link: “/llm_observability/setup” tag: “Documentation” text: “Learn how to set up LLM Observability”

Overview

You can configure your LLM applications on the Configuration page with settings that can optimize your application’s performance and security.

Topics

Helps identify and filter out irrelevant or malicious input, ensuring your LLM application stays focused on its intended purpose.

Evaluations

Enables Datadog to assess your LLM application against respective dimensions like Quality and Security and Safety. By enabling evaluations, you can assess the effectiveness of your application’s responses and maintain high standards for both performance and user safety.

Select an LLM application set up with LLM Observability to start customizing its topics and evaluations.

Enabling any of the out-of-the-box evaluations outside of Language Mismatch shares your input and output to OpenAI.

Enter a topic

To enter a topic, click the Edit icon and add keywords. For example, for an LLM application that was designed for incident management, add observability, software engineering, or incident resolution.

Topics can contain multiple words and should be as specific and descriptive as possible. For example, if your application handles customer inquiries for an e-commerce store, you can use “Customer questions about purchasing furniture on an e-commerce store”.

Select evaluations

To enable evaluations, click the toggle for the respective evaluations that you’d like to assess your LLM application against in the Quality and Security and Safety sections. For more information about evaluations, see Terms and Concepts.

Enabling evaluations results in your prompt-response data being shared with OpenAI. Under the zero data retention (ZDR) policy, OpenAI does not use any data sent from Datadog for training purposes.

Further Reading