Dynatrace
What is Dynatrace?
Dynatrace is an observability platform for platform, SRE, application, security, and operations teams that turns telemetry, logs, and topology into a unified operational view. It combines OneAgent, Smartscape, and Grail with dashboards, notebooks, alerting, workflows, and an MCP server for AI tools. It integrates with Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Jira, and OpenTelemetry, and is used by Migros Bank, Deutsche Telekom, and Accenture. Plans start at $7/month.
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At a glance
- Dynatrace is best for platform and SRE teams who need unified observability across complex cloud and enterprise systems.
- Foundation & Discovery $7 / mo; Infrastructure Monitoring $29 / mo; Full-Stack Monitoring $58 / mo…
- Yes — The page links to developer docs for building custom apps and working with Dynatrace's platform capabilities.
What does Dynatrace do?
Dynatrace turns telemetry, logs, and topology into a unified operational view, then uses AI to surface answers and automate next steps. Its platform combines OneAgent for continuous discovery, Smartscape for real-time topology mapping, and Grail for storing and analyzing observability, security, and business data in context. That lets teams move from raw signals to dashboards, notebooks, alerting, and workflows without stitching together separate tools. At scale, Dynatrace is built for massive, mixed environments: it supports cloud, container, and enterprise workloads, with native OpenTelemetry support and an API for custom apps and platform extensions. Customers named on the site include Migros Bank, Deutsche Telekom, and Accenture.
Why use Dynatrace?
- Unified data and real-time context help teams get answers instead of stitching together disconnected signals.
- Agentic AI and automation features reduce the manual work of triage, analysis, and follow-up actions.
- The platform covers infrastructure, applications, logs, security, and business observability in one system.
- OpenTelemetry support and an API make it easier to extend the platform around existing tooling and workflows.
- Trust-center controls and compliance coverage support teams with strict privacy and security review requirements.
Who is Dynatrace for?
- Platform engineering teams who need one view across infrastructure, applications, and business data.
- Site reliability engineers who want faster root-cause analysis and incident triage.
- Application teams who need code-level troubleshooting in production.
- Security and operations teams who want observability and security signals in one platform.
- Executives who need visibility into service health and business impact.
What are Dynatrace's key features?
Dashboards
Build shared dashboards for infrastructure, applications, and business metrics, using Grail™ data to keep teams aligned on the same operational view.
Notebooks
Document investigations and analysis in notebooks that combine queries, charts, and notes, helping teams preserve context from Grail™ and OpenTelemetry data.
Alerting
Set alerts on logs, metrics, traces, and events, then route incidents through Slack, PagerDuty, or ServiceNow to speed response.
Workflows
Automate incident response and operational tasks with workflows that connect Dynatrace data to Jira, Slack, and ServiceNow actions.
MCP server
Expose Dynatrace capabilities to AI tools through an MCP server, enabling agentic workflows that query observability data and act on it.
Infrastructure Observability
Monitor hosts, processes, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and VMware Tanzu with Smartscape topology and OneAgent collection.
Application Observability
Trace application behavior with PurePath and OpenTelemetry metrics and traces, helping teams find root causes faster across distributed services.
AI Observability
Track AI workloads and agent behavior alongside application telemetry, so teams can inspect performance and issues in the same Grail™ workspace.
What does Dynatrace integrate with?
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Kubernetes
- Red Hat
- SAP
- ServiceNow
- VMware Tanzu
- OpenTelemetry
- Jira
- Slack
- Pagerduty
- GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
- GitHub Copilot Custom Agent
- Cursor IDE
- JetBrains
- Windsurf
What are Dynatrace's use cases?
SRE incident triage
Site reliability engineers use Dynatrace to cut through noisy alerts and pinpoint what changed during an outage, using Alerting and Dashboards to move from symptom to root cause faster. They can then use Notebooks to document the investigation and share the fix with the rest of the team.
Production debugging for app teams
Application teams use Dynatrace to troubleshoot live production issues without waiting for a redeploy, using Application Observability and PurePath to trace failures down to code-level behavior. With Code Monitoring, they can inspect the problem in context and restore service before customers keep hitting the error.
Unified platform visibility
Platform engineering teams use Dynatrace to keep infrastructure, applications, and business signals in one place, using Infrastructure Observability and Business Observability to see how system health affects outcomes. Smartscape helps them understand dependencies quickly when a shared service starts degrading.
Security and ops correlation
Security and operations teams use Dynatrace to correlate observability and security signals during active risk events, using Application Security and Threat Observability to spot suspicious behavior alongside service impact. Workflows help route the right response so teams can act before issues spread.
How does Dynatrace work?
- Connect your first environment with OneAgent or a supported cloud integration, then let Dynatrace start collecting infrastructure, application, and log data in context.
- Open Smartscape to map services, hosts, and dependencies, so you can see where traffic flows and which components are connected before you investigate.
- Build Dashboards and Notebooks around the metrics, traces, and business signals that matter, giving SREs and platform teams a shared view of service health.
- Set up Alerting on the conditions that indicate risk, then use Workflows to route incidents, enrich context, and trigger the next response step automatically.
- Use Application Observability, Infrastructure Observability, and AI Observability together to trace issues across layers, confirm impact, and keep improving operations over time.
How much does Dynatrace cost?
Foundation & Discovery
$7 / mo- Basic host health indicators
- Host and process topology detection
- OS services monitoring
- Collection and correlation of logs in context
Infrastructure Monitoring
$29 / mo- Everything included in Foundation & Discovery
- Process, disk, memory and network analysis
- Custom metrics for extensibility
Full-Stack Monitoring
$58 / mo- Everything included in Infrastructure Monitoring
- APM
- Automated root cause analysis for E2E transactions
- Code-level profiling
- Kubernetes Platform Monitoring
- OpenTelemetry metrics and traces
- 10 days of trace data retention, extendable to 10 years
Kubernetes Platform Monitoring
$1.40 / mo- Visibility into Kubernetes clusters, nodes and workloads.
- Kubernetes metrics and events: CPU, memory, network and more
- Health views and explorative analysis with data in context
- Resources and topology
- Included on hosts with Full-Stack Monitoring for no additional charge
Code Monitoring
$3.60 / mo- Troubleshoot and debug your code live in production instantly.
- Live code troubleshooting and debugging
- Non-breaking breakpoints
- Integration with Visual Studio Code and JetBrains
Pay-per-Query
Custom- Ingest & Process
- $0.20 per GiB
- Retain
- $0.0007 per GiB-day
- Query
- $0.0035 per GiB-scanned
- Data transformation
- Conversion to time series
- DQL-powered analytics & querying: on-read parsing, aggregation, reporting
- Data retention control from 1 day to 10 years
Bundled Queries
Custom- Ingest & Process
- $0.20 per GiB
- Retain with included queries
- $0.02 per GiB-day
- Data transformation
- Conversion to time series
- DQL-powered analytics & querying: on-read parsing, aggregation, reporting
- Minimum 10, up to 35 days retention with queries included, extendable with usage-based option
Metrics
Custom- Ingest & Process
- $0.15 per 100k datapoints
- Retain
- $0.0007 per GiB-day
- Query
- $0 no additional cost
- 15 months of retention at 1-minute granularity included, extendable to 10 years
- OpenTelemetry ingest via OTLP
- Built-in metrics included
Traces
Custom- Ingest & Process
- $0.20 per GiB
- Retain
- $0.0007 per GiB-day
- Query
- $0.0035 per GiB-scanned
- 10 days of retention included, extendable to 10 years
- OpenTelemetry ingest via OTLP
- Trace ingest for serverless functions
- Trace allowance included with Full-Stack Monitoring
Events
Custom- Ingest & Process
- $0.20 per GiB
- Retain
- $0.0007 per GiB-day
- Query
- $0.0035 per GiB-scanned
- Built-in events included
- Retention extendable to 10 years
Real User Monitoring
$2.25- Capture and analysis of customer experience in every digital transaction
- Mobile application monitoring and crash analysis
- 35 days of data retention
RUM with Session Replay
$4.50- Everything included in Real User Monitoring
- Movie-like visual replay of end user experience
- 35 days of data retention
Browser Monitor
$4.50- Web-based recorder
- Scripted transactions
- Private locations
- 35 days of data retention
HTTP Monitor
$1.00- Validate availability and performance of APIs, services and networks across all environments.
- Analytics tracking availability, response time, HTTP status codes
- Global public and private synthetic locations
- 35 days of data retention
Runtime Vulnerability Analytics
$13 / mo- Detect 1st and 3rd party vulnerabilities at runtime.
- Automatic prioritization by risk and impact
- Ingest and analyze external security findings
Runtime Application Protection
$13 / mo- Runtime Application Protection
- Protects against top relevant OWASP security risks
- Blocking of exploitation attempts
- Covers 1st party code vulnerabilities
Security Posture Management
$5 / mo- Stay compliant with key security guidelines and industry standards.
- Continuously identify and resolve misconfigurations
- Detect and address security issues impacting your compliance at runtime
- Evidence creation for auditing purposes
- Covers compliance standards including CIS, NIST, DORA, HIPAA and more
Frequently asked questions
What is Dynatrace?
Dynatrace is an observability platform for platform, SRE, application, security, and operations teams that turns telemetry, logs, and topology into a unified operational view. It combines OneAgent, Smartscape, and Grail with dashboards, notebooks, alerting, workflows, and an MCP server for AI tools. It integrates with Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Jira, and OpenTelemetry, and is used by Migros Bank, Deutsche Telekom, and Accenture. Plans start at $7/month.
What is Dynatrace used for? Who is it for?
Dynatrace is used for Dashboards, Notebooks, and Alerting. It's built for Platform engineering teams, Site reliability engineers, and Application teams.
Does Dynatrace have an API and what does it integrate with?
The page links to developer docs for building custom apps and working with Dynatrace's platform capabilities. It integrates with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Red Hat, and 12 more.
Editor's read
Check whether the $7/month Foundation & Discovery tier is enough for your baseline monitoring needs, since Full-Stack Monitoring adds APM, automated root cause analysis, code-level profiling, and Kubernetes Platform Monitoring. If you need those capabilities from day one, the entry tier will not cover them.
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