Dynatrace pricing 2026: plans and costs
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- Dynatrace : Provides a Free Dynatrace Trial allowing you to test their AI-powered unified observability and security platform with your own data, plus a sandbox playground option.
Quick pricing summary
- Foundation & Discovery: $7 per host per month
- Infrastructure Monitoring: $29 per host per month
- Full-Stack Monitoring: $58 per 8 GiB host per month
- Kubernetes Platform Monitoring: $1.4 per pod per month
- Code Monitoring: $3.6 per container per month
- Runtime Vulnerability Analytics: $13 per 8 GiB host per month
- Runtime Application Protection: $13 per 8 GiB host per month
- Security Posture Management: $5 per host per month
- Real User Monitoring: $2.25 per 1,000 sessions
- Browser Monitor: $4.5 per 1,000 synthetic actions
- Worth noting: Dynatrace Platform Subscription: minimum annual spend commitment at the platform level, drawn down by usage at rate-card prices. Unit prices fall as commitment rises. Usage above the commitment is billed monthly at the same rates, with no penalty overages. Unlimited seats. Plan prices are list rates per unit.
Plans
Foundation & Discovery
$7 per host per month
- Basic host health indicators
- Host and process topology detection
- Filesystem monitoring
- OS services monitoring
- Collection and correlation of logs in context
Infrastructure Monitoring
$29 per host per month
- Everything in Foundation & Discovery
- Process, disk, memory, and network analysis
- Custom metrics for extensibility
Full-Stack Monitoring
$58 per 8 GiB host per month
- Everything in Infrastructure Monitoring
- APM with automated root cause analysis for E2E transactions
- Code-level profiling
- Kubernetes Platform Monitoring
- OpenTelemetry metrics and traces
- 10 days of trace data retention, extendable to 10 years
Kubernetes Platform Monitoring
$1.4 per pod per month
- Kubernetes metrics and events: CPU, memory, network
- Health views and explorative analysis
- Resources and topology
- Included on hosts with Full-Stack Monitoring at no additional charge
Code Monitoring
$3.6 per container per month
- Live code troubleshooting and debugging
- Non-breaking breakpoints
- Integration with Visual Studio Code and JetBrains
Runtime Vulnerability Analytics
$13 per 8 GiB host per month
- Detect 1st party code vulnerabilities and 3rd party vulnerabilities
- Automatic prioritization by risk and impact
- Ingest and analyze external security findings
Runtime Application Protection
$13 per 8 GiB host per month
- Protects against top relevant OWASP security risks
- Blocking of exploitation attempts
- Covers 1st party code vulnerabilities
Security Posture Management
$5 per host per month
- Continuously identify and resolve misconfigurations
- Detect and address runtime security issues impacting compliance
- Evidence creation for auditing purposes
- Covers CIS, NIST, DORA, HIPAA and more
Real User Monitoring
$2.25 per 1,000 sessions
- Capture and analysis of customer experience in every digital transaction
- Mobile application monitoring and crash analysis
- 35 days of data retention
Browser Monitor
$4.5 per 1,000 synthetic actions
- Web-based recorder
- Scripted transactions
- Private locations
- 35 days of data retention
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Foundation & Discovery | Infrastructure Monitoring | Full-Stack Monitoring | Kubernetes Platform Monitoring | Code Monitoring | Runtime Vulnerability Analytics | Runtime Application Protection | Security Posture Management | Real User Monitoring | Browser Monitor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic host health and topology | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Process, disk, memory, and network analysis | — | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| APM and code-level profiling | — | — | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kubernetes metrics and events | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Live code debugging | — | — | — | — | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vulnerability detection | — | — | — | — | — | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Blocking of exploitation attempts | — | — | — | — | — | — | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Compliance benchmarks (CIS, NIST, DORA, HIPAA) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ✓ | — | — |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic Operations | $0.10 per AI unit | Autonomous investigations, custom agents and remediation; AI units metered per task |
| Log Analytics ingest and process | $0.20 per GiB | Pay-per-Query logs model; query and retention billed separately |
| Metrics ingest and process | $0.15 per 100k datapoints | Telemetry metrics; query at no additional cost |
| Traces ingest and process | $0.20 per GiB | Distributed traces beyond included allowance |
Dynatrace pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynatrace | $1.4 / mo | No · 15-day trial | Usage-based | — | |
| Datadog | $0.05 / mo | No | Usage-based | Engineering teams that maintain, optimize and secure cloud or hybrid environments | Compare → |
| New Relic | Free; paid from $10 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Engineers responsible for application and system uptime and reliability, and teams that want full-stack observability starting from a free tier. | Compare → |
| Grafana | Free; paid from $19 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Teams that want open-standard observability without lock-in, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises | Compare → |
| OpenTelemetry | — | — | — | Teams that want to instrument applications once and keep the freedom to change observability backends | Compare → |
List prices as published on www.dynatrace.com/pricing/. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.