
What are Microservices?
Microservices is an approach to application design that centers on breaking applications into a large number of small independent services that work together to deliver the required functionality. There are several benefits to microservices architectures including increased development agility, ability to scale performance more effectively and improved reliability. Often, microservices are built to leverage cloud-native functionality like serverless functions or Kubernetes.
Many microservices, complete observability
While other monitoring solutions struggle with dynamic cloud-native environments, Dynatrace automatically discovers and monitors all microservices using both OneAgent and OpenTelemetry. Davis, our AI engine, understands application dependencies and delivers intelligent answers fast.
Powerful core technologies
Get precise answers through explainable, causal AI, with automatic discovery and topology mapping across billions of dependencies.
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OneAgent
Our single agent technology deploys only once on a host and instantly starts collecting all relevant metrics along the full application-delivery chain. Install it and forget it—we take care of everything.
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Smartscape
Our dynamic topology mapping technology automatically identifies and maps interactions and relationships between applications and the underlying infrastructure. As new microservices come up or go away, the Smartscape topology map continuously updates in real-time.
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Grail
Our massively parallel processing (MPP) data lakehouse is purpose-built to ingest, store, and run lightning-fast analytics on observability, security, and business data with high performance and at scale.
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Davis AI
Our AI engine automatically and continuously delivers precise answers. Davis® uses high-fidelity metrics, traces, logs, and user data mapped to a unified entity model to drive automation and deliver broader, deeper insights for modern cloud environments.
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AppEngine
Our secure, serverless, auto-scaling runtime environment makes it easy to create custom, compliant, data-driven apps that address the use cases most important to you.
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AutomationEngine
Our answer-driven automation technology leverages causal AI to intelligently power BizDevSecOps workflows throughout multicloud ecosystems.


Monitoring a microservice and containerized environment with traditional monitoring tools is both cumbersome and ineffective. Dynatrace’s ability to give container level metrics and application performance with a single install on the host dramatically reduces the effort required to maintain our environment.

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