As of January 12, 2026, SaaS platform extensions will no longer be part of the rate card for any new DPS subscription signed on or after that date. Existing DPS customers will continue to have access to the SaaS platform extensions capabilities.
This page describes the different platform extensions and the features that they provide with a DPS subscription.
For information about how usage of a specific capability translates to consumption of your DPS license commit, see
Learn how consumption of Dynatrace platform extensions is calculated using the Dynatrace Platform Subscription model.
You can extend the value of Dynatrace by defining, enabling or ingesting custom metrics. Dynatrace enables you to integrate third-party data sources, ingest custom metrics via API, leverage extensions, cloud integrations, and more.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of custom metric types:
Dynatrace can ingest log records. A log record is recognized in one of the following ways:
You can ingest traces into Dynatrace using OpenTelemetry exporters for applications running on hosts that don't have OneAgent installed. These distributed traces are sent via the Trace Ingest API.
You have the option to configure custom events and/or event-ingestion channels.
Custom created/ingested or subscribed events that might be configured for an environment include:
Dynatrace enables end-to-end observability of serverless Cloud functions based on monitoring data coming from traces, metrics, and logs.
Dynatrace also allows you to ingest logs from your serverless cloud functions.