Dynatrace Introduces Monthly Pricing Structure with New Foundation & Discovery Plans at $7/Month per Host for Enhanced Infrastructure Monitoring
What happened
Between the Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026 captures of Dynatrace's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: Pricing page restructured from hourly list pricing to monthly pricing display with tiered packages (Foundation, Infrastructure, Full-Stack); Foundation & Discovery plan introduced at $7/month per host ($0.01/hour) for basic infrastructure monitoring and IT inventory. Pulse files it as a packaging change (package change, new plan) 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 Expands Services Flexpoints Pricing with Daily Rates for Lead Consultant and Architect Services" (Q3 2025). Before that Pulse recorded "Dynatrace Expands Full-Stack Monitoring to Include Traditional Environments and New Trace Retention Policy" (Q1 2025), "Dynatrace Restructures Log Management Pricing: Retain Pricing Increased from $0.0007 to $0.02/GiB-day, Query Pricing Removed as Standalone Option" (Q4 2024) and "Dynatrace Renames Kubernetes Monitoring to Kubernetes Platform Monitoring for Enhanced Clarity" (Q3 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.
- — · PackagingChangedhourly list pricingmonthly pricing display
- Foundation & Discovery, Infrastructure Monitoring · PlanAdded
BeforeNot listed
AfterFoundation & Discovery plan
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Packaging | hourly list pricing | monthly pricing display | Changed |
| Foundation & Discovery, Infrastructure Monitoring | Plan | Not listed | Foundation & Discovery plan | Added |
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 Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026; the change is marked on the page, where "hourly list pricing" becomes "monthly pricing display".
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Dynatrace, pricing history
Full history- Jul 2, 2026improvedDynatrace: Log correlation democratized to Foundation & Discovery tier
- Apr 1, 2026packagingDynatrace Launches Telemetry Pricing With Plans Starting at $0.15/100k
- 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 · this change
- 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
- Q4 2024improvedDynatrace Restructures Log Management Pricing: Retain Pricing Increased from $0.0007 to $0.02/GiB-day, Query Pricing Removed as Standalone Option
- Q3 2024packagingDynatrace Renames Kubernetes Monitoring to Kubernetes Platform Monitoring for Enhanced Clarity
- Q1 2024packagingDynatrace Introduces Kubernetes Monitoring at $0.002/hour for Any Size Pod
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 January 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: package change, new plan.
What changed on Dynatrace's pricing page between Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026?
Packaging: hourly list pricing → monthly pricing display, changed; Foundation & Discovery, Infrastructure Monitoring plan: Not listed → Foundation & Discovery plan, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Dynatrace change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Dynatrace in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Dynatrace Expands Services Flexpoints Pricing with Daily Rates for Lead Consultant and Architect Services" in Q3 2025; Dynatrace has been tracked since 2023-12-08.