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Dynatrace vs. Elastic

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Top reasons customers choose Dynatrace over Elastic

Dynatrace delivers a unified architecture that transforms fragmented data into actionable, real-time business value. 

  • Grail™

    • Unified data lakehouse built for AI-driven operations
    • Contextualizes observability, security, and business data in one place
    • Massively Parallel Processing and indexless, always hydrated, zero-latency storage
    Learn about Grail
  • Smartscape®

    • Real-time dependency graph
    • Automatic discovery and continuous updates providing a live, accurate view of cloud, K8s, infrastructure and more
    • Understand and analyze complex topologies across multicloud and on-premises environments in real-time and at scale
    Learn about Smartscape
  • Dynatrace Intelligence

    • Agentic operations system for autonomous actions
    • Combined Deterministic and Agentic AI with context-rich data for reliable outcomes
    • Specialized agents that work across domains (SRE, Dev, Security) to “auto-prevent, auto-remediate, and auto-optimize”
    Learn about Dynatrace Intelligence

Feature

Dynatrace

Elastic

End-to-End Observability

End-to-end observability with automatic topology discovery, real-time dependency mapping, and built-in AI-driven insights across all telemetry.

Observability built on Elasticsearch requiring integration of logs, metrics, and traces; correlation often depends on manual queries and dashboards.

Data Platform

Unified, AI-ready data lakehouse (Grail) for logs, metrics, traces, and business data.

Search-based platform with separate ingestion pipelines and index management for logs, metrics, and traces.

Dependency Mapping

Real-time, continuously updated topology (Smartscape) with full stack context.

Limited native topology; service relationships require manual configuration.

AI & Automation

Deterministic + causal AI with precise root cause and remediation for autonomous operations.

Primarily query-driven analysis with limited built-in AI and minimal automation capabilities.

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A Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

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This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from Dynatrace. Dynatrace was recognized as Compuware from 2010-2014.
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