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Dynatrace

AI-driven full-stack observability sold through a consumption-based platform subscription

Overview

Dynatrace is an observability platform known for its OneAgent, which instruments hosts, processes and services automatically, and for its causal AI engine that groups related anomalies into a single problem. The company describes itself as “the observability company for the AI era” and says it operates from 50 offices[4]. It sells through the Dynatrace Platform Subscription (DPS), a commitment that is drawn down against a published rate card[4].

The rate card is unusually granular. Full-Stack Monitoring is listed at US$58 per month for an 8 GiB host, billed at US$0.01 per memory-GiB-hour; Infrastructure Monitoring is US$29 per host per month; log ingest and processing is US$0.20 per GiB; Kubernetes platform monitoring is US$1.40 per pod per month; and real user monitoring is US$2.25 per 1,000 sessions[4]. Because full-stack pricing scales with host memory rather than host count, large-memory servers cost proportionally more, which teams migrating from per-host vendors should model before committing. The company has been extending into AI workloads: on 1 October 2026 it announced completing the acquisition of Arize, an AI observability vendor, and on 2 November 2026 it announced a partnership with CrowdStrike covering SIEM and observability[17]. A 15-day free trial is available[4].

What Dynatrace does

  • OneAgent automatic instrumentation and topology discovery
  • Causal AI problem detection
  • Full-stack, infrastructure and discovery monitoring modes
  • Kubernetes monitoring priced per pod
  • Logs, RUM and synthetic monitoring on the same subscription
  • 15-day free trial
  • OneAgent automatic instrumentation
  • Causal AI root-cause analysis

Dynatrace pricing

Dynatrace Platform Subscription (annual commitment drawn down by usage). Rate card: Full-Stack Monitoring US$58/month per 8 GiB host (US$0.01 per memory-GiB-hour); Infrastructure Monitoring US$29/host/month; Foundation & Discovery US$7/host/month; log ingest & process US$0.20/GiB; metrics ingest US$0.15 per 100,000 data points; RUM US$2.25 per 1,000 sessions; HTTP monitors US$1.00 per 1,000 requests. 15-day free trial.

Dynatrace strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Automatic discovery reduces manual instrumentation
  • Detailed public rate card
  • Strong fit for hybrid and mainframe-adjacent estates
  • Root-cause grouping cuts alert noise
  • Root-cause analysis groups related alerts
  • No per-user fees

Limitations

  • Memory-based pricing penalises large hosts
  • Annual commitment model suits enterprises more than small teams
  • Proprietary agent, though OpenTelemetry ingest is supported
  • Many rate-card meters to model
  • Pricing per 8 GiB of host memory is costly on large hosts
  • Annual platform commitment is the standard buying route

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