Frequently asked questions about the Dynatrace Developer Program

The goal of the Dynatrace Developer Program is to provide developers with all the necessary resources and support to build, test and deploy innovative software intelligence solutions using the Dynatrace platform.

Use of the free developer instance is limited to development of custom monitoring solutions using Dynatrace integration interfaces including the Dynatrace API, OneAgent SDK, OneAgent/ActiveGate Plugins & OpenKit.

1. Use of the free developer instance for activities unrelated to the development and testing of extensions of the Dynatrace platform, including monitoring of productive environments, is not permitted.
2. Integrations created by Dynatrace customers are for internal business use only and may not be resold.
   
3. Use of the free developer instance may be revoked if the instance is dormant for more than 3 months.
   
4. Dynatrace reserves the right to change program terms without notice.

1. Technical documentation, tutorials and code samples.
2. Membership in the Dynatrace developer community, which includes access to community forums, exclusive developer support and invite-only developer events.
3. Access to a free developer instance on the Dynatrace platform for you and your development team. The dev instance includes:
   5 host units of full-stack monitoring
   100 custom metrics
   1,000,000 annual RUM visits
   10,000 monthly web checks
   

Participation is open to developers employed by Dynatrace partner accounts or paid Dynatrace customer accounts. While the program is available to SaaS, Managed and Offline customers, please note the free developer instances will be provisioned within our SaaS environment.

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The Dynatrace Developer program is free to users under a Dynatrace partner account or a non-trial Dynatrace SaaS customer account.

Start by requesting your free developer instance. To do so, please complete the instance request form on the developer home page. Be sure to use the email address associated with your Dynatrace account. After confirming that you meet the program qualifications, we will get back to you with instructions for accessing your developer instance. In the meantime, please begin exploring the education and community resources.

Yes, we encourage the use of the developer instance as a shared resource across your team. The admin of your developer instance can invite team members by clicking top right menu, and then selecting Account Settings, then User Management, and finally Invite User.

Yes. Please use tags and management zones to manage access.

Please email developer@dynatrace.com