Dynatrace Application Monitoring
dynatrace.com
What it is
Dynatrace Application Monitoring tracks application performance, availability and user experience to help teams find problems before they affect customers. It brings together real-user experience, response-time metrics, infrastructure and cloud environments. The product automatically detects application dependencies and follows transactions across tiers. Dynatrace says its AI analyzes events to identify breakdowns and can locate problems down to individual lines of code. Real-user and synthetic monitoring support web and mobile apps and end-to-end customer journeys. OneAgent gathers host data, identifies running processes and activates instrumentation for the application stack. Supported technologies listed include AWS, Android, Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft Azure, Docker and Go; the Hub also contains apps, extensions and technologies. Its capabilities include distributed and transaction tracing, dependency mapping, real-user monitoring and log correlation, with a hybrid deployment model. The advertised platform trial lasts 15 days. Full-Stack Monitoring is listed at $58 a month, billed at $0.01 per memory-GiB-hour per 8 GiB host, and includes 10 days of trace retention, extendable to 10 years. Standard Support is available during weekday business hours; Enterprise Success & Support is available 24/7/365.
Spec sheet
- Purpose
- Dynatrace application monitoring measures application performance, availability, and user experience to help identify and resolve issues before they affect customers.Read 3 Oct 2026 · dynatrace.com
- Trial
- Dynatrace advertises a 15-day free trial of its platform.Read 3 Oct 2026 · dynatrace.com
- Integrations
- Dynatrace lists AWS, Android, Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft Azure, Docker, and Go among supported technologies; its Hub contains apps, extensions, and technologies.Read 3 Oct 2026 · dynatrace.com
- Security
- Dynatrace says its data security controls secure and encrypt data end to end and are regularly and independently audited.Read 3 Oct 2026 · dynatrace.com
- Compliance
- The pricing page lists ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP Moderate, and HIPAA among its compliance certifications.Read 3 Oct 2026 · dynatrace.com
- Support
- Standard Support is available during business hours Monday through Friday, while Enterprise Success & Support is available 24/7/365.Read 3 Oct 2026 · dynatrace.com
- Headquarters
- Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · dynatrace.com
- Founded
- 2005Read 28 Sep 2026 · dynatrace.com
- Data collection
- OneAgent collects monitoring data from a host, discovers running processes, and automatically activates instrumentation for the application stack.Read 3 Oct 2026 · docs.dynatrace.com
- Dependency discovery
- Dynatrace automatically detects application dependencies and tracks transactions across tiers.Read 3 Oct 2026 · dynatrace.com
- Full stack visibility
- The product monitors real user experience, application performance and response time, infrastructure, and cloud environments, with real-time metrics.Read 3 Oct 2026 · dynatrace.com
- Pricing model
- Dynatrace Platform Subscription uses a minimum annual platform spend commitment and charges based on actual usage against a rate card.Read 3 Oct 2026 · dynatrace.com
- Root cause analysis
- Dynatrace says its AI analyzes events to identify application breakdowns and can pinpoint problems down to individual lines of code.Read 3 Oct 2026 · dynatrace.com
- User experience
- Integrated real-user and synthetic monitoring metrics support proactive monitoring of web and mobile apps and track customer journeys end to end.Read 3 Oct 2026 · dynatrace.com
Plans and prices
Strong points and limits
Strong points
- Real-time performance and availability metrics
- Automatically discovers application dependencies
- AI analysis can pinpoint code-level problems
- Supports real-user and synthetic monitoring
- 15-day free trial
Limits
- No free plan
- Full-Stack Monitoring is billed per memory-GiB-hour
- Standard Support is limited to weekday business hours
Who it suits
It suits teams that need visibility across applications, infrastructure and cloud environments, including real-user experience and transaction tracing. Teams considering Full-Stack Monitoring should account for its host-based billing and trace-retention terms.
Verdict
Dynatrace combines application, infrastructure and user-experience monitoring with dependency discovery and tracing. Review the metered Full-Stack Monitoring terms and support tier that fits your team.
Where Specifiction places it
- Application Performance Monitoring#10 of 378.4