How much does Dynatrace cost?
Paid plans start at
$1.40/mo
Their page doesn't say if this is billed monthly or yearly.
- Free plan
- Not stated
- Free trial
- 15-day free trial
- Usage price
- $0.20/minute
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
Read from www.dynatrace.com/pricing/ on Oct 29, 2026. Price changed? Tell usSee the line each price came from
In your favor
- Free trial. 15-day free trial
Watch out for
- Extra usage is billed. No penalty overages; usage above the commit is billed monthly at the same rates
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Start free trial, Request a demo, Try it free
- Sign up
- Self-serve 15-day free trial "Start your 15-day free trial of Dynatrace."
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Minimum annual spend commitment at the platform level "you make a minimum annual spend commitment at the platform level"
What Dynatrace does
Dynatrace offers a unified observability platform built on its Grail data lakehouse, with Log Analytics alongside APM, digital experience and application security. Pricing is an annual platform-level commitment drawn down at rate-card prices.
- Good for
- Enterprises and cloud-native teams that want one platform for logs, metrics, traces, application monitoring and security under a single annual commitment.
- Channels
- Web app, Remote MCP Server, CLI, API
- Main product
- Dynatrace platform with Log Analytics
- Also includes
- Log Analytics with Pay-per-Query or Bundled Queries, DQL-powered querying with on-read parsing, Log pattern analysis, Retention control from 1 day to 10 years, Unlimited seats, SSO, granular access policies and IP allow lists
- Connects to
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Jira, Slack, OpenTelemetry (OTLP), Visual Studio Code, JetBrains
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- Live tailNot stated
- Full-text log searchNot stated
- Log-based alertingNot stated
- Configurable retention
Data retention control from 1 day to 10 years
- SSO and role-based access
Give your security team full governance over user access through SSO, granular access policies, and IP allow l
- Self-hosted optionNot stated
- OpenTelemetry support
OpenTelemetry ingest via OTLP
- AI log analysis assistant
AI for everyday work: telemetry exploration, anomaly detection in time-series and log analysis.
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Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | HIPAA listed among compliance certifications; BAA not stated | "ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA, and more."pricing |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II | "ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA, and more."pricing |
| GDPR | Built-in masking, configurable retention and hard deletion to help meet GDPR | "Built-in masking, configurable retention, and hard deletion help you meet GDPR, CCPA, and beyond"pricing |
| CCPA | Built-in masking, configurable retention and hard deletion to help meet CCPA | "Built-in masking, configurable retention, and hard deletion help you meet GDPR, CCPA, and beyond"pricing |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | ISO 27001 | "ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP Moderate, HIPAA, and more."pricing |
| Single sign-on | Included in subscription; plan not stated | "Give your security team full governance over user access through SSO, granular access policies, and IP allow lists."pricing |
| Trust center | Trust Center | "Trust Center"security |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Platform Monitoringper pod | $1.40monthly or yearly not stated | – | – | – | "l user monitoring, log analytics, and application security. kubernetes platform monitoring" |
| Foundation & Discoveryper host | $7monthly or yearly not stated | – | – | – | "nitoring, code monitoring, and application security. choose foundation or infrastructure f" |
| Infrastructure Monitoringper host | $29monthly or yearly not stated | – | – | – | "lation of logs in context billed at $0.01 per hour per host infrastructure monitoring infr" |
| Full-Stack Monitoringper 8 GiB host | $58monthly or yearly not stated | – | – | – | "metrics for extensibility billed at $0.04 per hour per host full-stack monitoring comprehe" |
| Log Analytics Pay-per-Query: Ingest & Processper GiB | $0.20per minute | – | – | – | "ce monitoring, and application security. mix and match your logs pricing model across your" |
| Log Analytics Pay-per-Query: Retainper GiB-day | $0per minute | – | – | – | "ce monitoring, and application security. mix and match your logs pricing model across your" |
| Log Analytics Pay-per-Query: Queryper GiB-scanned | $0per minute | – | – | – | "ce monitoring, and application security. mix and match your logs pricing model across your" |
| Log Analytics Bundled Queries: Ingest & Processper GiB | $0.20per minute | – | – | – | "ce monitoring, and application security. mix and match your logs pricing model across your" |
| Metrics: Ingest & Processper 100k datapoints | $0.15per minute | – | – | – | "rt. preserve context to query and correlate across signals. metrics measure and trend perf" |
| Traces: Ingest & Processper GiB | $0.20per minute | – | – | – | "ance included with full-stack and infrastructure monitoring traces track requests end to e" |
| AI Explorationno additional charge | – | – | – | – | "AI for everyday work: telemetry exploration, anomaly detection in time-series and log anal" |
| Agentic Operationsper AI unit | $0.10per minute | – | – | – | "time series data + predicting future timeseries values with agentic forecasting + log patt" |
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- No penalty overages; usage above the commit is billed monthly at the same rates "Dynatrace never charges penalty-style overages."
- Contract
- Annual commitment at the platform level "Make an annual commitment at the platform level"
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Dynatrace, LLC
- Online since
- Dec 23, 2004 Domain registration date
- Customers
- "Trusted by global leaders" their claim
- Backing
- "Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms" their words
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Questions
Is Dynatrace free?
There's no free plan. Free trial: 15-day free trial. Paid plans start at $1.40/month.
How much does Dynatrace cost?
Paid plans start at $1.40 per month.
Is Dynatrace HIPAA compliant?
Dynatrace says a HIPAA BAA is HIPAA listed among compliance certifications; BAA not stated.