Dynatrace, Inc. is a global technology company listed on the

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that provides a

software intelligence Software Intelligence is insight into the structural condition of software assets produced by software designed to analyze database structure, software framework and source code to better understand and control complex software systems in Informatio ...

platform based on

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

(AI) and

automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...

. Dynatrace technologies are used to monitor and optimize application performance, software development and security practices,

IT infrastructure Information technology infrastructure is defined broadly as a set of information technology (IT) components that are the foundation of an IT service; typically physical components (computer and networking hardware and facilities), but also variou ...

, and user experience for businesses and government agencies throughout the world. The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform uses a proprietary form of AI called Davis to discover, map, and monitor applications,

microservices A microservice architecture – a variant of the service-oriented architecture structural style – is an architectural pattern that arranges an application as a collection of loosely-coupled, fine-grained services, communicating through lightw ...

container orchestration In system administration, orchestration is the automated configuration, coordination, and management of computer systems and software.Erl, Thomas (2005) Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology & Design. ''Prentice Hall'', . A number o ...

platforms such as

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, and

running in

multicloud Multicloud (also spelled multi-cloud or multi cloud) is a company's use of multiple cloud computing and storage services from different vendors in a single heterogeneous architecture to improve cloud infrastructure capabilities and cost. It also re ...

, hybrid-cloud, and

hyperscale In computing, hyperscale is the ability of an architecture to scale appropriately as increased demand is added to the system. This typically involves the ability to seamlessly provide and add compute, memory, networking, and storage resources to ...

network environments. The platform also provides automated problem remediation. The Dynatrace platform provides

observability Observability is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. In control theory, the observability and controllability of a linear system are mathematical duals. The concept of observa ...

of the full

solution stack In computing, a solution stack or software stack is a set of software subsystems or components needed to create a complete Computing platform, platform such that no additional software is needed to support applications. Applications are said to " ...

in order to simplify the complexity of

cloud native computing Cloud native computing is an approach in software development that utilizes cloud computing to "build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds". These technologies such as containers, m ...

and accelerate an organization's

digital transformation Digital transformation is the adoption of digital technology by an organization to digitize non-digital products, services or operations. The goal for its implementation is to increase value through innovation, invention, customer experience or ef ...

and cloud migration.

Product

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform uses AI to provide infrastructure monitoring, applications and

monitoring,

application security Application security (short AppSec) includes all tasks that introduce a secure software development life cycle to development teams. Its final goal is to improve security practices and, through that, to find, fix and preferably prevent security i ...

, digital experience,

business analytics Business analytics (BA) refers to the skills, technologies, and practices for continuous iterative exploration and investigation of past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning. Business analytics focuses on developing ne ...

, an
cloud automation
capabilities. Dynatrace also provides a Software Intelligence Hub that publishes integrations with more than 620 technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker,

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Prometheus In Greek mythology, Prometheus (; , , possibly meaning "forethought")Smith"Prometheus". is a Titan god of fire. Prometheus is best known for defying the gods by stealing fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, know ...

. 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 * Grail data lakehouse with indexless, schema-on-read storage for contextual

data analytics Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics. It is used for the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data. It also entails applying data patterns toward effective decision-making. It ...

and management using

massively parallel Massively parallel is the term for using a large number of computer processors (or separate computers) to simultaneously perform a set of coordinated computations in parallel. GPUs are massively parallel architecture with tens of thousands of t ...

processing and the proprietary Dynatrace query language (DQL) * Davis, a proprietary AI engine, for automatic root-cause fault-tree analysis Dynatrace provides

observability to both SaaS and managed service deployment models, in partnership with service providers including AWS,

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, among others.

Open source contributions

Dynatrace invests in building DevOps and SRE automation and contributes developments to th
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
(CNCF), including the contribution o
Keptn
and open-source pluggable control plane for cloud-native application lifecycle orchestration. Dynatrace is a key contributor and investor in

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

community activities around observability and performance. Examples includ
W3C Trace Context
of which Dynatrace is a founding member and co-chair
OpenTelemetry
an
OpenFeature
Other open-source technologies Dynatrace contributes to include MONACO, Barista, and Dynahist. The Dynatrace REST API can be used to retrieve data or ingest it.

History

Dynatrace was founded by Bernd Greifeneder on February 2, 2005 in Linz, Austria as dynaTrace Software GmbH, and was acquired by

Compuware Compuware Corporation was an American software company based in Detroit, Michigan. The company offers products aimed at the information technology (IT) departments of large businesses, and its services also include testing, development, automation ...

in 2011. In 2014, the private equity firm

Thoma Bravo Thoma Bravo, LP, is an American private equity and growth capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Chicago and Miami. It is known for being particularly active in acquiring software companies and has over $114 billion in assets under manage ...

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 An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment ...

().

Dynatrace headquarters is located in

Waltham, Massachusetts Waltham ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, th ...

, with research and development labs based in various locations across Austria, Estonia, Poland, Spain, 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 Keynote Systems was a U.S. based company that specialized in developing and marketing software as a service technology to measure, test, and improve from the end user perspective, the performance of websites, online content, applications, and ser ...

, the rival provider of Application Performance Management (APM) services, which private equity firm

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 John S. Quarterman (born April 27, 1954) is an American author and longtime Internet participant. He wrote one of the classic books about networking prior to the commercialization of the Internet. He has also written about risk management. Biog ...

, was well-known for its Internet host censuses and its statistical maps and "weather reports" of the Internet. SpectX: On September 14, 2021, Dynatrace completed the acquisition of high-speed parsing and query analytics company, SpectX.

Industry recognition

In 2022 Dynatrace was awarded with 3 major awards, best place to work at 2022, best global culture 2022, best company outlook 2022. In 2022, Gartner again named Dynatrace a Leader in its 2022

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for APM and Observability. In 2021,

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named Dynatrace a Leader in ''2021

APM report'' for the 11th consecutive time. Gartner also scored Dynatrace highest in five of six use cases in the ''2021 Gartner'' ''Critical Capabilities for APM'' report. GigaOm recognized Dynatrace as a "Leader" and "Outperformer" in the 2021 GigaOm Radar for AIOps solutions. Dynatrace named a Customers' Choice in the September 2021 Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer': Application Performance Monitoring report. Dynatrace named a Leader in cloud-native observability in the 2021 ISG Provider Lens^TM – Container Services & Solutions Report. Forrester recognized Dynatrace as Leader in the ''2020 Forrester Wave: AIOps Report''. G2 users rated Dynatrace the #1 observability platform. The AI Breakthrough Awards™ recognized Dynatrace as the best overall AI-based analytics company for business intelligence and analytics.
Constellation Shortlist™
named Dynatrace as one of the top seven companies in their ''Shortlist for Digital Performance Management''. Dynatrace was named a 2021 Best Large Company to Work For by Built In Boston.

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