Dynatrace Expands Full-Stack Monitoring to Include Traditional Environments and New Trace Retention Policy
What happened
Between the Jan 1, 2025 and Apr 1, 2025 captures of Dynatrace's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: Full-Stack Monitoring now explicitly discloses trace retention: 'Includes defined amount of trace volume and 10 days of trace retention that can be extended to 10 years'; Full-Stack Monitoring scope explicitly expanded from 'cloud-native environments' to 'cloud-native and traditional environments'. Pulse files it as a packaging change (threshold added, feature change) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 12, 2026) lists Infrastructure Monitoring at $29 per host/month, Full-Stack Monitoring at $58 per 8 GiB host/month, Kubernetes Platform Monitoring at $1.4 per pod/month, Code Monitoring at $3.6 per container/month and Log Analytics - Pay-per-Query at $3.5 per 1,000 GiB scanned + $0.7 per 1,000 GiB-day retained.
Dynatrace's previous recorded change was "Dynatrace Restructures Log Management Pricing: Retain Pricing Increased from $0.0007 to $0.02/GiB-day, Query Pricing Removed as Standalone Option" (Q4 2024). Dynatrace has been tracked since 2023-12-08.
In the same window Elastic, Datadog and Grafana also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Full-Stack Monitoring · LimitThreshold addedNot listed10 years
- Full-Stack Monitoring · FeatureReworded
Beforecloud-native environments
Aftercloud-native and traditional environments
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full-Stack Monitoring | Limit | Not listed | 10 years | Threshold added |
| Full-Stack Monitoring | Feature | cloud-native environments | cloud-native and traditional environments | Reworded |
Values as written on Dynatrace's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Dynatrace's pricing page (dynatrace.com) from Jan 1, 2025 and Apr 1, 2025; the change is marked on the page, where "Not listed" becomes "10 years".
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Dynatrace, the last 90 days
Full history- Apr 3, 2026packagingDynatrace rebrands Davis AI as Dynatrace Intelligence, overhauls pricing page
- Jan 11, 2026packagingDynatrace Introduces Monthly Pricing Structure with New Foundation & Discovery Plans at $7/Month per Host for Enhanced Infrastructure Monitoring
- Q3 2025packagingDynatrace Expands Services Flexpoints Pricing with Daily Rates for Lead Consultant and Architect Services
- Q1 2025improvedDynatrace Expands Full-Stack Monitoring to Include Traditional Environments and New Trace Retention Policy · this change
- Q4 2024improvedDynatrace Restructures Log Management Pricing: Retain Pricing Increased from $0.0007 to $0.02/GiB-day, Query Pricing Removed as Standalone Option
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- ElasticJan 11Elastic Introduces 99.95% Uptime SLA for Platinum and Enterprise Tiers in Comparison Table
- DatadogJan 11Datadog Introduces AWS Fargate Serverless Application Monitoring at $3 per Active Instance, Enhancing Serverless Performance Insights
- GrafanaJan 10Grafana Transforms Pro Plan to Pure Pay-As-You-Go Model Starting at $0, Renames All Plans
Questions about this change
Did Dynatrace raise prices in April 2025?
No list-price increase was recorded between Jan 1, 2025 and Apr 1, 2025. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: threshold added, feature change.
What changed on Dynatrace's pricing page between Jan 1, 2025 and Apr 1, 2025?
Full-Stack Monitoring limit: Not listed → 10 years; Full-Stack Monitoring feature: cloud-native environments → cloud-native and traditional environments, reworded. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jan 1, 2025 and Apr 1, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Dynatrace change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 1 other pricing-page change for Dynatrace in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Dynatrace Restructures Log Management Pricing: Retain Pricing Increased from $0.0007 to $0.02/GiB-day, Query Pricing Removed as Standalone Option" in Q4 2024; Dynatrace has been tracked since 2023-12-08.