
What is application topology discovery?
Application topology discovery is the ability to discover all components and dependencies of your entire technology stack, end-to-end. Application mapping is the process of mapping out these elements across your entire IT environment, through a visual graph, and then looking at how these applications are interconnected and dependent on each other. AI can be used to automate these actions.
Auto-discover your full technology stack in minutes
In under 5 minutes, with no manual configuration, Dynatrace auto-discovers all the components and dependencies of your entire technology stack end-to-end. All you need to do is install a single agent.
- Smartscape technology automatically detects your entire web environment.
- Dynatrace detects billions of causal dependencies between websites, applications, services, processes, hosts, networks, and infrastructure within minutes.
- Your entire application topology is displayed in a visual, dynamic, and interactive way.
Dynatrace automatically learns how your application works
As it discovers your IT architecture topology, Dynatrace automatically learns your environment’s normal performance. You don’t need to verify baseline thresholds for metrics like response time and CPU health or adjust static alerting thresholds—it’s all handled for you automatically.
- Dynatrace self-learning capabilities automatically identify performance anomalies.
- Artificial intelligence determines whether or not a problem affects your customers.
- Big data analytics automatically perform root-cause analysis to pinpoint the reasons behind performance problems.
Get actionable insights into highly dynamic environments
The complexity and speed of change in today’s fluid and highly dynamic environments are simply beyond human capability to manage. With Dynatrace, you see how everything works together. Click any component to drill down into its performance details.
- Dynatrace automatically and continuously recognizes changes to your IT environment on the fly.
- Always have an up-to-date, real-time dynamic blueprint of your application architecture.
- Have all information about complex and dynamic IT environments at your fingertips—with no manual assembly or correlation of data.
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