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Dynatrace, Inc. is an American multinational technology company, pioneering an AI-powered observability platform. Their software is the key to monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing everything from application performance and software development to cybersecurity, IT infrastructure, and the ultimate user experience.
At its core, Dynatrace leverages Davis, a proprietary form of artificial intelligence, to discover, map, and continuously monitor complex environments. This includes applications, microservices, container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, and IT infrastructure spread across multicloud, hybrid-cloud, and hyperscale networks. The platform doesn't just observe; it actively provides automated problem remediation and even offers IT carbon impact analysis. It delivers true observability across the entire solution stack, essential for managing the complexities of cloud-native computing, and for powering successful digital transformations and cloud migrations.
The Dynatrace unified observability and security platform is a powerhouse. It harnesses AI for infrastructure monitoring, application and microservices monitoring, application security, digital experience insights, business analytics, and cloud automation. And with the Dynatrace Hub, you gain access to a constantly growing library of Dynatrace applications, designed for specific observability needs and integrating with over 620 technologies, including giants like Amazon Web Services, Docker, Java, and Prometheus.
At the heart of the Dynatrace platform are these core technologies: OneAgent, for effortless automated data collection; Smartscape, providing a continuously updated topological map and visualization; PurePath, for deep code-level distributed tracing; AppEngine, empowering you to build custom applications powered by observability, security, and business data; AutomationEngine, for crafting custom DevOps workflows; the Grail data lakehouse, offering indexless, schema-on-read storage for contextual data analytics with massively parallel processing and the unique Dynatrace Query Language, DQL; and of course, Davis, the proprietary AI engine, combining causal-AI for root-cause analysis, predictive analytics, and generative AI. Dynatrace offers multicloud observability for both SaaS and managed deployments, in partnership with industry leaders like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Dynatrace is also a significant contributor to the open-source community, particularly in the realms of DevOps and SRE automation. They actively contribute to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, including the donation of Keptn, an open-source control plane for cloud-native application lifecycle orchestration. Their commitment extends to key open-source activities around observability and performance, such as W3C Trace Context, where they are a founding member and co-chair, OpenTelemetry, and OpenFeature. You'll also find their contributions in other open-source technologies like MONACO, Barista, and Dynahist. And for seamless data interaction, the Dynatrace REST API is your gateway to retrieving and ingesting data.
Founded in Linz, Austria, on February 2, 2005, by Bernd Greifeneder, Sok-Kheng Taing, and Hubert Gerstmayr as dynaTrace Software GmbH, the company was acquired by Compuware in 2011. In 2014, private equity firm Thoma Bravo took the company private, and the Compuware APM group was rebranded as Dynatrace, a move that solidified its position in the Digital Performance Management category by late 2014. Dynatrace achieved its initial public offering on August 1, 2019, with John Van Siclen as CEO and Thoma Bravo as sponsor. In December 2021, Rick McConnell, formerly President of Akamai, took the helm as CEO. While its headquarters are in Boston, Massachusetts, Dynatrace boasts research and development labs across Austria, Estonia, Poland, Spain, Israel, and the United States, with a global presence spanning over 60 offices worldwide, including Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
Dynatrace's growth has been fueled by strategic acquisitions. In 2015, they merged with Keynote Systems, a rival in Application Performance Management, which Thoma Bravo had also acquired. Keynote, an early pioneer in internet performance metrics since 1995, brought valuable expertise. Acquisitions like Matrix.net, through Keynote's own acquisitions, contributed a rich history in internet data and mapping. In 2017, Qumram was acquired, enhancing their session replay technology. More recently, SpectX in 2021 brought high-speed parsing and query analytics, Rookout in 2023 added a developer-first observability platform, Runecast in 2024 bolstered security and compliance solutions, and Metis in 2025 is set to enhance their AI-driven database observability.
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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 Davis 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. The platform provides observability across the solution stack to manage the complexities of cloud native computing, and support digital transformation and cloud migration.
== Product ==
The Dynatrace unified observability and security platform uses AI to provide infrastructure monitoring, applications and microservices monitoring, application security, digital experience, business analytics, and cloud automation capabilities. Dynatrace also provides the Dynatrace Hub, which publishes Dynatrace applications for specific observability use cases and integrations with more than 620 technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Java, and Prometheus.
The Dynatrace platform consists of the following technologies:
OneAgent for automated data collection
Smartscape for continuously updated topology mapping and visualization
PurePath for code-level distributed tracing
AppEngine for building custom applications based on observability, security, and business data
AutomationEngine for building custom automated DevOps workflows
Grail data lakehouse with indexless, schema-on-read storage for contextual data analytics and management using massively parallel processing and the proprietary Dynatrace query language (DQL), which uses a sequence of commands to chain (pipe) data processing operations.
Davis, a proprietary AI engine that combines multiple AI techniques including causal-AI for automatic root-cause fault-tree analysis, 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, Google Cloud Platform, among others.
== Open source contributions ==
Dynatrace invests in building DevOps and SRE automation and contributes developments to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), including the contribution of Keptn, an open-source pluggable control plane for cloud-native application lifecycle orchestration. Dynatrace is a key contributor and investor in open-source community activities around observability and performance. Examples include W3C Trace Context, of which Dynatrace is a founding member and co-chair; OpenTelemetry; and OpenFeature. Other open-source technologies Dynatrace contributes to include MONACO, Barista, and Dynahist.
The Dynatrace REST API can be used to retrieve or ingest data.
== History ==
Dynatrace was founded by Bernd Greifeneder, Sok-Kheng Taing and Hubert Gerstmayr on February 2, 2005 in Linz, Austria as dynaTrace Software GmbH, and was acquired by Compuware in 2011. In 2014, the private equity firm Thoma Bravo took the company private, and the Compuware APM group was renamed Dynatrace. Dynatrace established the Digital Performance Management category in late 2014.
On August 1, 2019, Dynatrace completed its initial public offering. Its CEO was John Van Siclen and sponsor was Thoma Bravo.
Rick McConnell, previously the President of Akamai, became CEO in December 2021.
Dynatrace's headquarters is located in Boston, Massachusetts, with research and development labs based in various locations across Austria, Estonia, Poland, Spain, Israel, and the United States. Dynatrace also hosts 60 further offices globally, including Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
=== Acquisitions ===
Keynote Systems: In 2015, Dynatrace was merged with Keynote Systems, a rival provider of Application Performance Management (APM) services, which private equity firm Thoma Bravo had also acquired. Keynote, founded in 1995, had been an early provider of Internet performance metrics, including its "Keynote perspective" product in 1996, the Business 40 Internet Performance Index in 1997, and its Streaming Perspective product in 2000.
Matrix.net (Matrix Information and Directory Services, Xaffire): Among the Keynote acquisitions which were eventually merged into Dynatrace were Xaffire Inc., whose Austin business unit Keynote acquired in December 2003, and which itself had emerged from the combination of Alignment Software Inc. with Matrix NetSystems, also known as Matrix.net and Matrix Information and Directory Services Inc. Matrix, operated by early Internet pioneer John Quarterman, was well-known for its Internet host censuses and its statistical maps and "weather reports" of the Internet.
Qumram: On November 9, 2017, Dynatrace announced the acquisition of Qumram, a company offering advanced session replay technology for mobile and web applications.
SpectX: On September 14, 2021, Dynatrace completed the acquisition of high-speed parsing and query analytics company, SpectX.
Rookout: On July 31, 2023, Dynatrace announced the acquisition of Rookout, a company that offers a developer-first observability platform.
Runecast: On January 29, 2024, Dynatrace announced the acquisition of Runecast, a provider of security and compliance solutions.
Metis: On March 5, 2025, Dynatrace announced the acquisition of Metis, an AI-driven database observability platform.
== References ==
== External links ==
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