Subscription and license management

  • A new version of the Dynatrace Platform Subscription model (DPS) was released on April 26, 2023. If your Dynatrace licensing agreement started prior to April 2023, please refer to the earlier version of DPS documentation.
  • This page is provided for informational purposes only. The terms of the Dynatrace free trial offer and/or your Dynatrace license will be applied to any use of Dynatrace products or services. For more information, see Dynatrace Platform Subscription (DPS).

Dynatrace Platform Subscription (DPS)

Dynatrace Platform Subscription is our new licensing model for all Dynatrace capabilities. DPS offers full flexibility to use any capabiity, at any volume, anytime to help you adapt quickly to ever-changing technical and business requirements.

Dynatrace SaaS

A Dynatrace SaaS deployment has one active license that controls the products you can use. Products' capabilities include:

  • host units1
  • host unit hours2
  • Digital Experience Monitoring
  • Davis data units
  • Application security units

Account Management provides a real-time view of licensed product consumption (Total license usage), with historical analysis at the daily or hourly level (Usage details).

1

The size of a host for licensing purposes (based on the amount of RAM provided by a host). The size of a host (in other words, the number of host units that a host is comprised of for consumption calculations) is based on the number of GBs of RAM available on the host server. The advantage of this approach is its simplicity; technology-specific factors are not taken into consideration (for example, the number of JVMs or the number of microservices that are hosted on a server). It doesn't matter if a host is .NET-based, Java-based, or something else. You can have 10 JVMs or 1,000 JVMs; such factors don't affect the amount of monitoring that an environment consumes. For full details, see Application and Infrastructure Monitoring (Host Units).

2

Represents the consumption of a host unit over a time period. 1 host unit hour equates to 1 host unit being consumed for 1 hour. A host with 16 GB of RAM (1 host unit) running for a full day consumes 24 host unit hours.