# Dynatrace vs Glowroot

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Dynatrace

| Attribute | Dynatrace | Glowroot |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 60.9 (40% (low)) | 52.6 (53% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 27 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 13 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 1,355 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Dynatrace provides comprehensive observability across applications, infrastructure, security, and business processes. Using AI-driven insights and foundational agents, it enables organizations to analyze data, detect anomalies, automate incident response, and deliver secure software faster across cloud and on-premises environments. | Glowroot is a Java application performance monitoring (APM) tool that captures request traces, provides continuous profiling, response time analysis, and database monitoring with extensive library and framework instrumentation. |
| features.capabilities | `{"rum":true,"service_map":true,"otel_support":"ingest","code_profiling":true,"anomaly_detection":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` | `{"hosting":"self","languages":"Java","otel_support":"none","db_monitoring":true,"code_profiling":true,"error_analytics":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` |
| integrations.count | 6 | 50 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Apigee"},{"name":"Flagsmith"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"VSCode"},{"name":"JetBrains"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform"}]` | `[{"name":"Apache Camel"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"EJB"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Grails"},{"name":"Hibernate"},{"name":"Apache HttpClient"},{"name":"Apache HttpAsyncClient"},{"name":"AsyncHttpClient"},{"name":"OkHttp"},{"name":"JavaMail"},{"name":"JAX-RS"},{"name":"JAX-WS"},{"name":"JDBC"},{"name":"JMS"},{"name":"JSF"},{"name":"JSP"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"JUL"},{"name":"Log4j"},{"name":"Logback"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Netty"},{"name":"Play Framework"},{"name":"Quartz Scheduler"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"Servlets"},{"name":"Spring Framework"},{"name":"Struts"},{"name":"Vert.x"},{"name":"Tomcat"},{"name":"TomEE"},{"name":"Wildfly"},{"name":"JBoss EAP"},{"name":"Jetty"},{"name":"Glassfish"},{"name":"Payara"},{"name":"WebLogic"},{"name":"WebSphere"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Java |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"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"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://glowroot.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T13:21:59.993Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 19 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.8-beta.4","date":"2026-08-02T14:53:48Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.8-beta.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.8-beta.3","date":"2026-06-08T12:18:19Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.8-beta.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.8-beta.1","date":"2026-06-08T05:43:46Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.8-beta.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.7","date":"2026-05-11T08:58:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.7-beta.1","date":"2026-04-21T14:29:03Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.7-beta.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.6","date":"2026-03-24T11:20:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.6-beta.4","date":"2026-03-21T20:01:14Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.6-beta.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.6-beta.3","date":"2026-03-15T20:50:22Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.6-beta.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.6-beta.2","date":"2026-03-14T16:45:03Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.6-beta.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.5","date":"2026-03-08T16:38:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.5-beta.4","date":"2026-03-02T08:06:11Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.5-beta.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.5-beta.3","date":"2026-02-18T10:56:36Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.5-beta.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.5-beta.2","date":"2025-11-10T09:13:23Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.5-beta.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.5-beta.1","date":"2025-07-18T14:32:30Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.5-beta.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.4","date":"2025-05-25T16:31:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.3-beta.5","date":"2024-09-05T19:57:21Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.3-beta.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.3-beta.4","date":"2024-07-11T20:13:52Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.3-beta.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.2","date":"2024-04-07T14:22:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.2-beta.5","date":"2024-04-03T14:44:24Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.2-beta.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/glowroot/glowroot/releases/tag/v0.14.2-beta.4","date":"2024-04-01T20:32:53Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.14.2-beta.4"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 4.2 |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.glowroot%3Aglowroot-agent-api&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (APM Tools)

| Capability | Dynatrace | Glowroot |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 | OTLP ingest | None |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Language agents | - | Java |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | - | Self-hosted only |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:06:00.666Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*