{"id":2260,"date":"2026-04-24T10:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sreschool.com\/blog\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:51:24","slug":"dyantrace-what-are-the-major-components-of-dynatrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sreschool.com\/blog\/dyantrace-what-are-the-major-components-of-dynatrace\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyantrace – What are the major components of Dynatrace?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dynatrace has several major components. A useful way to think about it is as data collection \u2192 ingestion \u2192 storage\/analytics \u2192 AI\/root cause \u2192 apps\/automation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

flowchart TD\n    A[OneAgent]\n    B[ActiveGate]\n    C[Dynatrace Platform \/ Tenant]\n    D[Grail]\n    E[OpenPipeline]\n    F[Smartscape]\n    G[PurePath]\n    H[Davis \/ Dynatrace Intelligence]\n\n    I[APPS]\n    I --> I1[Infrastructure Observability]\n    I --> I2[Application Observability]\n    I --> I3[Log Management and Analytics]\n    I --> I4[Digital Experience Monitoring]\n    I --> I5[Application Security]\n    I --> I6[Business Observability]\n    I --> I7[AI \/ LLM Observability]\n    I --> I8[Automation, Workflows, Dashboards, Alerts]\n\n    A --> B --> C --> D\n    C --> E\n    D --> F\n    D --> G\n    F --> H\n    G --> H\n    H --> I<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
1. OneAgent<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The main agent installed on hosts, VMs, containers, or Kubernetes nodes. It automatically discovers and instruments applications, services, infrastructure, processes, and dependencies. It collects metrics, traces, logs, events, topology, and code-level performance data. (Dynatrace Documentation<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. ActiveGate<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A secure gateway\/proxy that sits between monitored environments and Dynatrace. It is commonly used for private networks, large-scale deployments, Kubernetes\/cloud integrations, routing traffic, reducing outbound connections, and handling remote monitoring. Dynatrace describes ActiveGate as a secure proxy between OneAgents and Dynatrace clusters or other ActiveGates. (Dynatrace Documentation<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Dynatrace Platform \/ Tenant<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The SaaS or Managed Dynatrace environment where data is processed, correlated, visualized, queried, alerted on, and used by Dynatrace apps. Dynatrace positions the platform as combining observability, AI, automation, and application security. (Dynatrace<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. Grail<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Dynatrace\u2019s observability data lakehouse. It stores logs, metrics, traces, events, business data, and other telemetry in one place, with topology and dependency context connected to the data. Users query Grail with DQL<\/strong>, the Dynatrace Query Language. (Dynatrace Documentation<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. OpenPipeline<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The ingestion and processing layer for telemetry. It helps route, transform, enrich, filter, and control data before storage or analysis. Dynatrace describes OpenPipeline as managing unified ingestion with scalable stream processing and extraction options. (Dynatrace Documentation<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. Smartscape<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The real-time topology and dependency graph. It maps relationships among services, hosts, processes, Kubernetes objects, cloud resources, applications, and infrastructure so Dynatrace can understand what depends on what. (Dynatrace Documentation<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7. PurePath<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Dynatrace\u2019s distributed tracing technology. It follows individual requests across services, processes, databases, queues, and external calls, giving code-level visibility into performance and failure paths. (Dynatrace<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8. Davis \/ Dynatrace Intelligence<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The AI and analytics layer. It uses topology, telemetry, baselines, anomalies, events, and dependencies to detect problems, reduce alert noise, and identify root cause. Dynatrace\u2019s current docs describe Dynatrace Intelligence as applying causation-based analysis across apps, services, infrastructure, logs, and traces using Grail and Smartscape. (Dynatrace Documentation<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
9. Observability Apps<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
These are the user-facing capability areas, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n