# AppDynamics vs Dynatrace

| Attribute | AppDynamics | Dynatrace |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 60.5 (71% (medium)) | 56.8 (39% (low)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"AppDynamics provides visibility into application performance and infrastructure health in hybrid and on-premises deployments, correlating performance metrics with business impact while using AI to detect anomalies, identify security threats, and track user experiences. It is indexed under APM Tools.","source":"https://www.appdynamics.com/","question":"What is AppDynamics?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to AppDynamics. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.appdynamics.com/en_us/products/pricing.html","question":"What platforms does AppDynamics support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. AppDynamics can be deployed hybrid and on-premise, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.appdynamics.com/","question":"Can AppDynamics be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for AppDynamics. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as AppDynamics not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.appdynamics.com/security","question":"What security certifications does AppDynamics have?","confidence":0.7}]` | `[{"answer":"A monitoring and observability platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide application performance insights, distributed tracing, security threat detection, and automated incident response across cloud and enterprise environments. It is indexed under APM Tools.","source":"https://www.dynatrace.com/","question":"What is Dynatrace?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Dynatrace offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.00 per pod-hour per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.dynatrace.com/","question":"Is Dynatrace free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Dynatrace. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.dynatrace.com/","question":"What platforms does Dynatrace support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Dynatrace, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.dynatrace.com/","question":"Can Dynatrace be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 9 integrations for Dynatrace, including Apigee, Flagsmith, Cursor, VSCode, JetBrains, Google Cloud Platform, AbuseIPDB and Google App Engine, plus 1 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.dynatrace.com/","question":"What does Dynatrace integrate with?","confidence":0.6}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A full-stack application performance monitoring platform that provides real-time visibility into application issues, enables root-cause diagnosis across the entire technology stack, and correlates performance with business outcomes. | Dynatrace is an observability platform that collects and analyzes logs, metrics, and traces from applications and infrastructure. It offers pre-built applications for security investigations, compliance management, and developer debugging, with a data lakehouse called Grail for unified data storage and analysis. |
| features.capabilities | `{"rum":true,"hosting":"both","otel_support":"native","db_monitoring":true,"code_profiling":true,"error_analytics":true,"anomaly_detection":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` | `{"rum":true,"hosting":"cloud","service_map":true,"otel_support":"ingest","code_profiling":true,"error_analytics":true,"anomaly_detection":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` |
| integrations.count | 1 | 2 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenTelemetry","native":true}]` | `[{"name":"Apigee"},{"name":"Flagsmith"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"VSCode"},{"name":"JetBrains"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform"},{"name":"AbuseIPDB","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google App Engine","native":true,"category":"cloud-platform","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"APIContext","native":true,"category":"api","direction":"inbound"}]` |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.appdynamics.com/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T11:09:54.237Z","freeTrialDays":30}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Foundation & Discovery","summary":"$0.01/host/hour","features":["Host health indicators","Host and process topology","Filesystem monitoring","OS services monitoring","Log correlation in context"],"components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"host-hour","amount":0.01,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Basic infrastructure monitoring and IT inventory","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Infrastructure Monitoring","summary":"$0.04/host/hour","features":["Everything in Foundation & Discovery","Process/disk/memory/network analysis","Custom metrics"],"components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"host-hour","amount":0.04,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Infrastructure observability for cloud, hyperscaler, and data center","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Full-Stack Monitoring","summary":"$0.01/GiB-host/hour","features":["Everything in Infrastructure Monitoring","APM with automated root cause analysis","Code-level profiling","Kubernetes monitoring","OpenTelemetry metrics/traces","10 days trace retention (up to 10 years)"],"components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"GiB-host-hour","amount":0.01,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Comprehensive observability for applications, microservices, and infrastructure","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Kubernetes Platform Monitoring","summary":"$0.002/pod/hour","features":["Kubernetes metrics and events","Health views","Resource and topology analysis","Included free with Full-Stack Monitoring"],"components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"pod-hour","amount":0.002,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Visibility into Kubernetes clusters, nodes, and workloads","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Code Monitoring","summary":"$0.005/container/hour","features":["Live debugging","Non-breaking breakpoints","VS Code and JetBrains integration"],"components":[{"kind":"metered","unit":"container-hour","amount":0.005,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Live code troubleshooting and debugging in production","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Log Analytics – Pay-per-Query","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-day"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0007,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-scanned"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0035,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Log Analytics – Bundled Queries","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-day"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.02,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Metrics Telemetry","components":[{"per":{"qty":100000,"unit":"datapoints"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.15,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-day"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0007,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Trace Telemetry","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-day"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0007,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-scanned"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0035,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Events Telemetry","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-day"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0007,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB-scanned"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0035,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Usage-based from $0.002/pod-hour to $0.04/host-hour. Transparency emphasized; single commit with volume discounts and no overage penalties.","currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://www.dynatrace.com/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-05T14:07:49.569Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.002,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | unknown |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | - | https://www.dynatrace.com/hub/detail/security-investigator/ |

## Capabilities (APM Tools)

| Capability | AppDynamics | Dynatrace |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Instrumentation** |  |  |
| Auto-instrumentation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Distributed tracing | - | ✓ |
| **Insight** |  |  |
| Service map | - | ✓ |
| Code / continuous profiling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Database monitoring | ✓ | - |
| Error analytics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-user monitoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| SLO / error-budget tracking | - | - |
| **Intelligence** |  |  |
| Anomaly / root-cause AI | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry support | OTel-native | OTLP ingest |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Language agents | - | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud only |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:18:02.802Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*