Dynatrace Inc. is rolling out new features that will make it easier for enterprises to troubleshoot their software and fix cybersecurity issues. 

The company debuted the enhancements today at its annual Perform product event in Las Vegas. The additions are rolling out to Dynatrace’s namesake observability platform, which helps enterprises detect performance issues, outages and hacker activity in their infrastructure. The software ships with an artificial intelligence assistant called Davis that eases tasks such as identifying the cause of server malfunctions.

The first set of new features that the company debuted today is rolling out for Davis. Dynatrace is enhancing the AI assistant’s ability to explain the technical issues it finds. According to the company, Davis can now provide natural language problem summaries and suggests “specific remediation steps.” The underlying AI models generate recommendations by analyzing similar incidents that occurred in the past.

In addition to troubleshooting technical issues, Davis lends itself to a number of other tasks. Administrators can, for example, ask the assistant to predict when they should add more storage capacity to a cloud environment. Davis also generates alerts when it detects malfunctions. 

Today’s update equips the assistant with the ability to generate artifacts, or software-related files such as an application’s configuration scripts. The assistant can generate, among other things, scripts for configuring Kubernetes clusters. An administrator could ask Davis to increase the amount of processing power available to a Kubernetes cluster when it’s receiving more network traffic than usual. 

“The shift from reactive to preventive operations represents the next evolution in AIOps,” said Chief Technology Officer Bernd Greifeneder. “This is not just about earlier detection of problems or faster resolution — it’s about preventing problems from occurring in the first place.”

The upgrades to Davis are rolling out alongside a new suite of features called Observability for Developers. It’s headlined by Live Debugger, a tool that promises to ease the task of troubleshooting software issues.

When a faulty piece of code interrupts an application, developers usually have to reproduce the outage to identify what happened and how it can be fixed. The task can take a significant amount of time. Dynatrace says that Live Debugger enables developers to collect the technical data they need to fix an application malfunction without having to reproduce the incident.

Observability for Developers also includes dashboarding features for monitoring workload health. Additionally, developers can use the offering to track how customers interact with their software and identify ways to improve the user experience.

The new service is rolling alongside another new feature bundle called Dynatrace CSPM. According to the company, it enables customers to centrally monitor their cloud environments’ cybersecurity posture. The offering is positioned as an alternative to platform-specific tools that only collect data from a single public cloud. 

Companies such as banks can use Dynatrace CSPM to ensure their cloud environments adhere to industry-specific cybersecurity standards. Privacy teams, in turn, can monitor systems’ compliance with data protection laws such as GDPR. Dynatrace says the information collected by the feature suite is also useful for breach investigations.

“With our unified solution, organizations achieve a single-platform approach that delivers continuous security insights, AI-ranked risk analysis and automated remediation,” said Chief Product Officer Steve Tack.

“Dynatrace continues to push the boundaries of observability and AIOps with its latest advancements, including Live Debugger and expanded security capabilities,” said Rob Strechay, managing director of SiliconANGLE’s sister market research firm theCUBE Research. “By integrating gen AI with its established Davis AI in an agentic manner, Dynatrace enhances preventive operations, reduces developer toil and accelerates MTTR. Its commitment to self-service observability and OpenTelemetry support underscores its role in enabling platform engineering at scale.”

Strechay also sees the expansion from Kubernetes Security Posture Management to Cloud Security Posture Management as a logical progression, leveraging its deep telemetry expertise to provide broader security insights. “With a strong application-centric approach, Dynatrace extends security posture management across cloud environments, reinforcing its position as a partner-focused innovator in modern enterprise IT,” he said.

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