# Dynatrace vs Lumigo

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Dynatrace

| Attribute | Dynatrace | Lumigo |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 60.9 (40% (low)) | 53 (73% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":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. | Lumigo is an AI-powered observability platform providing root cause analysis, distributed tracing, and log management for microservice environments across AWS, Kubernetes, and OpenTelemetry. |
| features.capabilities | `{"rum":true,"service_map":true,"otel_support":"ingest","code_profiling":true,"anomaly_detection":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` | `{"hosting":"both","service_map":true,"otel_support":"native","error_analytics":true,"anomaly_detection":true,"distributed_tracing":true,"auto_instrumentation":true}` |
| integrations.count | 6 | 5 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Apigee"},{"name":"Flagsmith"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"VSCode"},{"name":"JetBrains"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform"}]` | `[{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Serverless Framework"},{"name":"CircleCI"}]` |
| 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":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Basic","summary":"Free","features":["150k Traces/mo","14 Day Trace Retention","5GB/mo Logs","3 Days Log Retention","5GB/mo Metrics","3 Days Retention","Copilot Basic","Documentation"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"logs":"5GB/mo","traces":"150k/mo","metrics":"5GB/mo","log_retention":"3 days","trace_retention":"14 days","metrics_retention":"3 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$99/mo annual, $119/mo monthly","features":["1M Traces/mo","14 Day Trace Retention","40GB/mo Logs","7 Days Log Retention","40GB/mo Metrics","7 Days Retention","Copilot","Basic Support","Email Support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":119,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Great for small businesses","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"logs":"40GB/mo","traces":"1M/mo","metrics":"40GB/mo","log_retention":"7 days","trace_retention":"14 days","metrics_retention":"7 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Plus","summary":"$299/mo annual, $359/mo monthly","features":["5M Traces/mo","14 Day Trace Retention","100GB/mo Logs","30 Days Log Retention","100GB/mo Metrics","30 Days Retention","Copilot","Basic Support","Email Support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":359,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For multiple teams","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"logs":"100GB/mo","traces":"5M/mo","metrics":"100GB/mo","log_retention":"30 days","trace_retention":"14 days","metrics_retention":"30 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Custom","summary":"Contact for pricing","features":["Custom Traces","Custom Trace Retention","Custom Log Volume","Custom Log Retention","Custom Metrics","Advanced AI RCA","AI insights","AI issue triage","Copilot in Slack & Teams","Custom seats","Chat & Email Support","Private Slack Channel","Success Manager","Professional Services"],"description":"Designed for enterprise","contactSales":true}],"summary":"From $99/mo (annual). Free tier with 150k traces/mo. 14-day free trial.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://lumigo.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T13:22:21.885Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":119,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |

## Capabilities (APM Tools)

| Capability | Dynatrace | Lumigo |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 | OTel-native |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Language agents | - | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | - | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:19:45.715Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*