Dynatrace
Dynatrace, Inc. is an American multinational technology company that provides an AI-powered observability platform. Their software is used to monitor, analyze, and optimize application performance, software development, cyber security practices, IT infrastructure, and user experience.
Dynatrace uses a proprietary form of artificial intelligence called Dynatrace Intelligence to discover, map, and monitor applications, microservices, container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, and IT infrastructure running in multicloud, hybrid-cloud, and hyperscale network environments. The platform also provides automated problem remediation and IT carbon impact analysis.
Platform components include infrastructure monitoring, applications and microservices monitoring, application security, digital experience, business observability, AI observability, and cloud automation.
- OneAgent: Automated data collection
- SmartScape: Continuously updated topology mapping
- PurePath: Code-level distributed tracing
- AppEngine: Low-code app development for observability/security/business data
- AutomationEngine: Automated DevOps workflows
- Grail data lakehouse: Indexless, schema-on-read storage for analytics with DQL query language
- Dynatrace Intelligence: Causal AI, predictive analytics, generative AI for root-cause analysis and AI observability predictive analytics, and generative AI.
Dynatrace provides multicloud observability to both SaaS and managed service deployment models, in partnership with service providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Open source contributions
Dynatrace supports CNCF projects including Keptn, W3C Trace Context, OpenTelemetry, and OpenFeature.History
Dynatrace was founded in 2005 in Linz, Austria as dynaTrace Software GmbH. The company was acquired by Compuware in 2011, then taken private by Thoma Bravo in 2014 and renamed Dynatrace. In 2015, it merged with Keynote Systems. The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2019.Rick McConnell has served as CEO since 2021.
Acquisitions
- Keynote Systems : Application performance management
- Matrix.net / Xaffire: Internet performance metrics and analysis
- Qumram : Session replay technology
- SpectX : High-speed parsing and analytics
- Rookout : Developer-first observability
- Metis : AI-driven database observability
- DevCycle : Feature management and experimentation platform