Dynatrace use cases

We have categorized Dynatrace use cases with a product-lifecycle-centric view, rather than a platform-centric view, to emphasize the ease of adoption of use cases for platform engineering teams and cases in which no formal platform engineering team has been established.

Develop - Release - Operate - Predict - Prevent - Resolve - Protect - Improve

See a selection of Dynatrace use cases available to the teams to make their work observable and easier. You can use these cases to provide automation and self-service capabilities to your users—the development teams.

Develop

This category contains all activities around planning, developing, building, and testing services and applications on an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) provided by a platform engineering team.

Test pipeline observability

Goal

From millions of test events to a single source of truth.

Try it yourself: Test pipeline observability.

Continuous testing validation

Goal

120X reduction in evaluation times from days to minutes.

For more information, see Continuous testing validation.

Tutorial coming soon

Observability-driven development

Goal

Mean Time to Observability reduction from hours to seconds.

For more information, see Observability-driven development.

Tutorial coming soon

Release

This category contains all activities around releasing and deploying in environments along the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Release validation

Goal

Reduce change failure rate and reduce production deployment lead time by up to 99%

Try it yourself: Release validation.

Progressive delivery

Goal

90-99% reduced problem exposure with progressive delivery.

For more information, see Progressive delivery

Tutorial coming soon

Pipeline observability

Goal

100% real-time standardized coverage of your software lifecycle health.

For more information, see Pipeline observability

Tutorial coming soon

Operate

This category contains activities around monitoring and operating services and applications in production environments.

Cloud cost optimization

Goal

Reduce cross-zone network traffic by up to 55%.

Try it yourself: Data-driven cloud tuning.

Generative AI observability

Goal

Increase reliability while keeping costs from surging.

For more information, see AI/ML Observability.

Try it yourself:

Observability for infrastructure

Goal

30% reduced MTTR by breaking down data silos.

For more information, see Observability for infrastructure.

Tutorial coming soon

Kubernetes monitoring

Goal

Manage your platform with 30+ out-of-the-box health alerts.

For more information, see Kubernetes monitoring.

Tutorial coming soon

Predict

Many incidents that used to result in wake-up calls for people on standby can now be addressed before they become major issues by using predictive AI and forecasting.

Predictive Kubernetes operations

Goal

Reduce overprovisioning and storage needs by up to 75%.

Try it yourself: Predictive Kubernetes operations.

Forecasting in data analytics

Goal

Zero disk-resize related after-hour alerts for SREs.

Try it yourself: Davis for Workflows.

Forecasting in workflow automation

Goal

Reduce up to 100% of recurring manual efforts with prediction-driven automation.

For more information, see Forecasting in workflow automation.

Tutorial coming soon

Prevent

Even when AI can’t predict issues, it can often prevent them using observability and security data.

Preventing customer-facing bugs

Goal

Reduce end-user-facing bugs by up to 36%.

Try it yourself: Automated bug triaging and ticketing.

Unified exposure protection

Goal

Cut risk remediation from 96 hours to 4 hours – 95% faster.

For more information, see Unified exposure protection.

Tutorial coming soon

Continuous security posture awareness

Goal

Instant live security reports.

For more information, see Continuous security posture awareness.

Tutorial coming soon

Data observability

Goal

24/7 data monitoring

Try it yourself: Data Observability

Resolve

Once an incident occurs, it is important to take the right steps immediately. Sometimes, the first step is to inform the right team with the required information. In others, issues can be remediated and resolved automatically.

Threat hunting and forensics

Goal

Fast and accurate threat hunting, incident solving, and root cause analysis

Try it yourself: Threat hunting and forensics.

Instant intrusion response

Goal

Intrusion response in minutes instead of days

Try it yourself: Instant Intrusion Response.

Incident triaging and response

Goal

Improve MTTR by up to 99%.

For more information, see Incident triaging and response.

Tutorial coming soon

Resolving critical business impact

Goal

Linking IT alerts to business impact provides prioritization.

For more information, see Resolving critical business impact.

Tutorial coming soon

Error budget alerting

Goal

Increase triaging efficiency by 90%.

For more information, see Error budget alerting.

Tutorial coming soon

Protect

All environments, infrastructures, and applications must be protected—with the right measures. Organizations can protect their assets more easily with a consistent Internal Developer Platform (IDP), providing governance and security.

Security Operations Center (SOC) noise reduction

Goal

Reduce security event storms by 99%

Try it yourself: CSPM Notification Automation.

Automate security findings at scale

Goal

Strive towards zero false positives.

For more information, see Automate security findings at scale.

Tutorial coming soon

Contextualized threat detection and incident response

Goal

From threat hypothesis to tangible evidence in minutes.

For more information, see Automate security findings at scale.

Tutorial coming soon

Improve

Continuous improvement of resources drives business. These improvements can range from cost- to time-savings to always ensuring best-in-class customer experiences.

Always-on app profiling

Goal

5x faster performance bottleneck issue resolution

Try it yourself: Always-on app profiling.

Kubernetes utilization improvement

Goal

Automated K8s utilization improvement reduces spend up to 25%.

For more information, see Kubernetes utilization improvement.

Tutorial coming soon

Business alignment

Goal

Bring in context to your business processes and accelerate collaboration.

For more information, see Business alignment.

Tutorial coming soon