Dynatrace announced Observability for Developers, a comprehensive set of solutions that empower the developer community with runtime insights and troubleshooting capabilities, accelerating the industry’s “shift-left” movement.
As modern cloud-native environments grow increasingly complex, observability solutions have become critical for developers. With systems becoming more distributed and dynamic, development teams require real-time insights into application performance, infrastructure health, and user experiences to maintain reliability while building innovation.
To address these challenges, Dynatrace now provides cloud-native application development teams with a powerful suite of differentiated capabilities, including:
- Easy data access and exploration: Intuitive dashboarding and advanced log, metrics, and trace analytics enabled by the powerful Dynatrace AI engine, Davis AI, make it easy to track and optimise application performance, monitor health, analyse end-user interactions, view historical data, and provide forecasting, all in one place.
- Introducing live production debugging to enhance AI-powered troubleshooting: As an extension of its AI-powered troubleshooting and debugging capabilities, including automatic root cause analysis, Dynatrace introduces Live Debugger. This new app enables developers to access real-time insights from runtime environments without requiring issue reproduction or redeployments. Developers can also extract debugging information without performance impact and leverage contextual insights for rapid problem resolution.
- Enterprise adoption with self-service: To facilitate enterprise adoption while minimising tool sprawl and data silos, Dynatrace enables observability teams and platform engineers to seamlessly implement a self-service model for developers. Tailored entry points and integrations with developer portals and integrated development environments (IDEs) unlock easy access to all developer productivity functionalities – including enriched OpenTelemetry logs, metrics, and traces for debugging with deep context – while maintaining a curated and compliant approach. In addition, a new pricing model will be introduced as part of the Observability for Developers solution so development teams can focus on building innovation without the fear of overages.
“As organisations increasingly recognise observability as critical to their IT operations, we are also seeing awareness of the necessity of observability earlier in the SDLC,” says KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Senior Analyst at RedMonk. “With its Observability for Developers solution, Dynatrace is expanding its observability capabilities to offer developer-focused tooling designed to meet this need.”
“Observability for Developers represents our commitment to empowering development teams with intelligent, context-aware solutions that allow them to innovate with speed and confidence,” said Bernd Greifeneder, CTO and Founder at Dynatrace. “We’re giving developers the ability to understand, troubleshoot, and optimise their applications with ease and precision. On top of this, we drive effective collaboration through AI-powered insights and automation to maximise productivity while providing leadership with improved evidence that their IT practices are safe, compliant, and adhere to company standards.”
The Live Debugger is currently in private preview and is expected to be available as part of the Dynatrace Observability for Developers solution in the next 90 days.
To learn more about these advancements, visit the Dynatrace blog.
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