Most of the value in Dynatrace is decided before the first agent goes in: what gets full depth, what gets basic health, which logs are worth keeping and who gets told when something breaks. We design that first, then deploy it in phases, starting where it matters most.
Official Dynatrace partner, and an independent adviser
A Dynatrace implementation puts OneAgent on the hosts and containers you want to observe, connects cloud and Kubernetes platforms, brings logs in through OpenPipeline and any OpenTelemetry data through the native OTLP endpoints, and then turns all of it into alerting, dashboards and integrations people actually use. Grail stores the data and Smartscape maps the dependencies between services automatically.
The technical install is the quick part. The decisions that shape cost and usefulness are which parts of the estate get full stack monitoring and which only need infrastructure monitoring, which logs to ingest and how long to keep them, and how alerts reach the right team. Getting those right at the start is far cheaper than unpicking them later.
Implementation
A documented plan for which hosts, services and clusters get full stack depth, which get infrastructure monitoring, and which are left out, tied to how much each matters to the business.
OneAgent rollout across on premises, cloud and Kubernetes estates, ActiveGate placement, and OpenTelemetry ingestion for services already instrumented that way.
Log ingest through OpenPipeline with filtering and retention rules set from the start, so log volume and cost are designed rather than discovered.
Alerting routed to the owning teams, and integrations with the tools you already run, such as ServiceNow, Atlassian, GitHub and your cloud platforms.
Dashboards, notebooks and enough Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) training that your teams can answer their own questions rather than raise a ticket.
What you get
We are an independent UK consultancy and an official Dynatrace partner. Our people spent decades on the vendor side, so we know how enterprise platforms are sold, sized and deployed, and we use that on your side of the table.
We do not run your monitoring around the clock. We design, deploy, train and optimise, and your teams or your existing service provider operate the platform day to day. That keeps the knowledge where it belongs.
Talk to us
We reply within one working day. Prefer email? Write to us at hello@c4cgroup.co.uk.
Questions
It depends on the size of the estate and how many teams are involved, which is why we scope before we quote. We roll out in phases, starting with the services where faster diagnosis matters most, so you get value from the first phase rather than waiting for the whole estate.
Yes. Dynatrace accepts OpenTelemetry data through native OTLP endpoints and provides its own supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. Services already instrumented with OpenTelemetry can send data to Dynatrace alongside OneAgent.
Some of them, yes. Dynatrace Query Language is how you query data in Grail, and the people who build dashboards and investigate issues get far more from the platform once they know it. We include practical DQL training in every implementation.
No. Full stack monitoring is priced by memory and is worth it for the services where code level detail speeds up diagnosis. Many supporting hosts only need infrastructure monitoring. Deciding this up front is one of the biggest levers on what Dynatrace costs you.
Yes. As an official Dynatrace partner we design and deploy Dynatrace, train your teams, and can supply the licensing too, so one team is accountable for the rollout and the commercials.
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