# 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  
  [Learn about Grail](/content/platform/grail/index.html)

- ### 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](/content/platform/application-topology-discovery/smartscape/index.html)

- ### 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”  
  [Learn about Dynatrace Intelligence](/content/platform/artificial-intelligence/index.html)

| 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. |

### Trusted by thousands of top global brands. These are just a few.

## Dynatrace named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

Read the complimentary report to see why Gartner positioned us highest for Ability to Execute in the latest Magic Quadrant.

[See Magic Quadrant](/content/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-observability-platforms/ "Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms Report"/index.html)

This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from Dynatrace. Dynatrace was recognized as Compuware from 2010-2014.

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