Observability & APM · Dynatrace, Inc.

Dynatrace

AI-driven observability platform with automatic topology discovery and per-hour, per-resource consumption pricing.

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Dynatrace is a full-stack observability and security platform built around OneAgent, which auto-instruments hosts, containers and processes and continuously maps dependencies (Smartscape) without manual configuration. Its Davis AI engine correlates anomalies across the resulting topology to point at probable root causes automatically rather than leaving correlation to the user. Deployment is SaaS or managed, and pricing decomposes into many separately metered consumption units — host hours, GiB of logs or traces ingested, RUM sessions, synthetic actions — which gives fine-grained control but requires active cost governance as usage scales across a large estate.

At a glance

Vendor Dynatrace, Inc.
Pricing model Usage-based
Free tier No
Deployment Cloud
Open source No
Best for Large enterprises wanting automated topology discovery and AI root-cause analysis across a complex, heterogeneous estate.

Pricing

Consumption pricing per hour for compute (hosts, pods, containers) plus per-GiB for logs/traces and per-1,000 for RUM sessions and synthetic actions.

Plan Price Notes
Infrastructure Monitoring $0.04/host-hour listed as $29/host/month equivalent
Full-Stack Monitoring $0.01/memory-GiB-hour listed as $58/8GiB-host/month equivalent
Log Management (pay-per-query) $0.20/GiB ingest plus $0.0007/GiB-day retention and $0.0035/GiB scanned at query time
Real User Monitoring $2.25 per 1,000 sessions $4.50 per 1,000 with session replay

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features

  • OneAgent auto-instrumentation with zero manual config
  • Smartscape topology mapping across the full stack
  • Davis AI for automated root-cause analysis
  • Unified log, metric, trace and RUM ingestion (OpenTelemetry-native)
  • Runtime application security and vulnerability analytics
  • Synthetic browser and HTTP monitoring
  • Kubernetes and cloud-native platform observability

Integrations

Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

Alternatives

Datadog Cloud monitoring platform unifying infrastructure metrics, APM, logs, and RUM in one billed-by-the-part SaaS. New Relic All-in-one observability platform pricing on data ingest plus per-user seats rather than per-host agents. IBM Instana Automated full-stack APM with 1-second granularity monitoring, priced per managed virtual server. Cisco AppDynamics Enterprise APM that ties application performance directly to business transaction metrics and revenue impact.

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Terms to know

Anomaly detection Identifying data points or patterns that deviate significantly from expected or normal behavior. Data observability Continuous automated monitoring of pipelines and datasets to catch freshness, volume and quality problems early.

Related guides

How to choose an observability platform Choose an APM/observability platform by how it prices telemetry, whether it auto-instruments or asks you to, and how it correlates signals into a root cause.