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Dynatrace alternative

Full-stack observability.
One pricing dimension, not a rate card.

Dynatrace bills an annual commitment against an hourly rate card: memory-GiB-hours for full-stack hosts, host-hours for infrastructure, and per-GiB ingest for logs and traces. aiAxonIQ prices on data volume, and your instrumentation stays open-source OpenTelemetry.

One pricing dimensiondata volume, with no host-hour or memory-hour metering

Why teams switch

Engineered for clarity and cost certainty

01
A bill you can predict
One data-volume plan. No memory-GiB-hours, host-hours, retention and query lines to forecast separately.
02
Portable instrumentation
Dynatrace accepts OTLP, but auto-instrumentation centres on OneAgent. On aiAxonIQ the open-source OpenTelemetry SDK is the only path, so nothing ties you in.
03
Query languages you know
PromQL for metrics and natural-language questions over SQL, instead of learning DQL.

Feature comparison

Feature
aiAxonIQ
Dynatrace
OpenTelemetry (OTLP) ingest
Instrumentation
OpenTelemetry SDKs + eBPF
OneAgent or OTLP
Pricing model
Data volume
Hourly rate card (DPS)
Per-seat fees
None
None
Distributed tracing (APM)
Log management
Kubernetes monitoring
Query language
PromQL + SQL
DQL (proprietary)
Zero-code eBPF capture
Via OneAgent
Self-hosted option
Dynatrace Managed
Free tier
Playground
15-day trial

Hover feature rows for notes. Competitor details based on publicly available information, verify against their current docs.

Migrate from Dynatrace

Switch in 3 steps

1

Sign up and get your license key

curl https://app.aiaxoniq.com/otlp/health -H "x-license-key: YOUR_KEY"
2

Point your OpenTelemetry SDK or Collector at aiAxonIQ (one environment variable)

OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=https://app.aiaxoniq.com/otlp
3

Rebuild key dashboards and alerts; PromQL replaces DQL metric queries

The bottom line

Same depth. Open instrumentation. One meter.

Dynatrace is a capable platform with a deep agent. aiAxonIQ takes the other road: open-source OpenTelemetry and eBPF for collection, PromQL and SQL for querying, and one data-volume price. If you already export OTLP, switching is an endpoint change.

OTLP over HTTP and gRPCNo host-hour or memory-hour meteringSelf-host with Docker Compose or Kubernetes

Switch from Dynatrace today

Connect your first service in under 5 minutes. Your Dynatraceinstrumentation keeps working while you evaluate.

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