Dynatrace vs. New Relic
Dynatrace vs. New Relic
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Top reasons customers choose Dynatrace over New Relic
Dynatrace delivers a unified architecture that transforms fragmented data into actionable, real-time business value.
Grail™
- Unified data lakehouse built for AI-driven operations
- Contextualizes observability, security, and business data in one place
- Massively Parallel Processing and indexless, always hydrated, zero-latency storage
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Smartscape®
- Real-time dependency graph
- Automatic discovery and continuous updates providing a live, accurate view of cloud, K8s, infrastructure and more
- Understand and analyze complex topologies across multicloud and on-premises environments in real-time and at scale Learn about Smartscape
Dynatrace Intelligence
- Agentic operations system for autonomous actions
- Combined Deterministic and Agentic AI with context-rich data for reliable outcomes
- Specialized agents that work across domains (SRE, Dev, Security) to “auto-prevent, auto-remediate, and auto-optimize”
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| Feature | Dynatrace | New Relic |
|---|---|---|
| End-to-end observability | End-to-end observability with automatic topology discovery, real-time dependency mapping, and built-in AI-driven insights across all telemetry. | Monitoring across telemetry types and correlation often relies on manual dashboards, queries, and user-defined relationships. |
| Data Platform | Unified, AI-ready data lakehouse (Grail) for logs, metrics, traces, and business data. | Telemetry data platform optimized for querying. |
| Dependency Mapping | Real-time, continuously updated topology (Smartscape) with full stack context. | Service maps limited in real-time depth and dependent on manual configuration. |
| AI & Automation | Deterministic + causal AI with precise root cause and remediation for autonomous operations. | Alerting with correlation based AI and minimal automation capabilities. |
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Dynatrace named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
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