Dynatrace Application Monitoring measures application performance, availability, and user experience to help identify issues before they affect customers. It combines real-user experience, response times, infrastructure, and cloud environments with real-time metrics, automatically discovers dependencies, and tracks transactions across tiers. Dynatrace says its AI analyzes events to identify breakdowns and can pinpoint problems to individual lines of code. Real-user and synthetic monitoring cover web and mobile applications and customer journeys. OneAgent collects host data, discovers running processes, and activates instrumentation for the application stack. Listed technologies include AWS, Android, Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft Azure, Docker, and Go, while the Hub contains additional apps, extensions, and technologies. The product supports distributed and transaction tracing, dependency mapping, real-user monitoring, and log correlation through a hybrid deployment model. Dynatrace advertises a 15-day free platform trial. Full-Stack Monitoring is listed at 58.00 USD per month, billed at $0.01 per memory-GiB-hour per 8 GiB host.
Who it is for
Dynatrace suits teams monitoring web and mobile applications across application, infrastructure, and cloud layers. It is relevant to organizations needing dependency mapping, tracing, user monitoring, and AI-assisted root-cause analysis.
What is good
- Monitors real users, applications, infrastructure, and cloud
- Automatically discovers dependencies and tracks transactions
- AI can identify issues to code lines
- Supports distributed tracing and log correlation
- Lists ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP Moderate, and HIPAA
What to know first
- No free plan
- Full-Stack Monitoring is paid
- Standard Support is limited to business hours
- Trace retention starts at 10 days
Verdict
Dynatrace Application Monitoring combines full-stack visibility, tracing, user-experience metrics, and AI-based issue analysis across a hybrid deployment model. A 15-day trial is available, with paid monitoring listed from $7/mo.
Get started with Dynatrace Application Monitoring
- Open the Dynatrace Application Monitoring website
- Start the advertised 15-day platform trial
- Install OneAgent on a monitored host
- Allow OneAgent to discover running processes and activate instrumentation
- Connect supported applications, infrastructure, or cloud environments
- Review application, user, dependency, and transaction metrics
Limits to know first
There is no free plan. The Full-Stack Monitoring plan is listed at 58.00 USD per month and includes 10 days of trace-data retention, with retention extendable to 10 years; the platform trial lasts 15 days.
Questions about Dynatrace Application Monitoring
Does Dynatrace offer a free plan?
No. Dynatrace lists a paid model and advertises a 15-day free trial.
What does Full-Stack Monitoring cost?
It is listed at 58.00 USD per month, billed at $0.01 per memory-GiB-hour per 8 GiB host.
Which platforms are supported?
Supported platforms include Android, API, iOS, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, web, and Windows.
What trace retention comes with Full-Stack Monitoring?
The plan includes 10 days of trace-data retention, extendable to 10 years.
What technologies does Dynatrace list?
Listed technologies include AWS, Android, Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft Azure, Docker, and Go. Its Hub contains apps, extensions, and technologies.
How is monitoring data collected?
OneAgent collects data from a host, discovers running processes, and automatically activates instrumentation for the application stack.
Dynatrace Application Monitoring plans and pricing
All plansCompared on application performance monitoring
- Free plan
- No
- Paid from
- $7/mo
- Distributed tracing
- Yes
- Transaction tracing
- Yes
- Dependency mapping
- Yes
- Real user monitoring
- Yes
- Log correlation
- Yes
- Deployment model
- hybrid
