Dynatrace & Crest Data: Accelerate Your Observability Migration

Businesses seeking to modernize their IT monitoring capabilities now have a powerful new option, thanks to a strategic alliance between Dynatrace and Crest Data. This collaboration is designed to help enterprise clients smoothly and rapidly transition from older monitoring systems to the advanced Dynatrace observability platform. By integrating Crest Data’s specialized migration tools with the Dynatrace environment, organizations can achieve a simplified, cost-effective shift that delivers immediate and enhanced operational value.

Malhar Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Crest Data, emphasized the goal of the partnership. “Our work with Dynatrace centers on providing a seamless, automated migration journey for clients adopting the Dynatrace platform,” Shah explained. “Leveraging our specialized knowledge alongside Dynatrace’s powerful observability features allows organizations to modernize more swiftly and with far less operational interruption.”

The joint migration offering delivers several distinct advantages for enterprises.

Accelerated Migration is a primary benefit, with purpose-built tools from Crest Data enabling the fast and straightforward transfer of existing dashboards and alert configurations into the Dynatrace ecosystem.

The solution also provides Enterprise-Scale Observability. A key enabler is Dynatrace Grail, which natively accommodates the ingestion and querying of massive data volumes. This capability grants comprehensive visibility even within the most intricate and widely distributed IT infrastructures.

Another cornerstone is Intelligent AI Automation through Davis AI. As an integral part of the Dynatrace platform, Davis AI supplies automated, real-time insights that drastically cut down on manual work and speed up the process of identifying and resolving problems.

The partnership is built with Future-Proof Flexibility in mind. The roadmap includes expanding migration support to cover additional data types and configurations beyond the initial focus on dashboards and alerts, ensuring the solution evolves with customer requirements.

Finally, clients gain access to Unified Observability. Upon migration, the Dynatrace platform delivers correlated, real-time intelligence across logs, metrics, application traces, and business events. This unified view streamlines IT operations and significantly reduces system complexity.

Steve McMahon, Chief Customer Officer at Dynatrace, commented on the growing market need. “With companies rapidly moving away from outdated log management tools, they require a migration pathway that is not only fast and scalable but also future-ready,” McMahon stated. “This alliance empowers us to help customers obtain actionable intelligence, allowing them to optimize operations at any scale. Dynatrace offers unparalleled full-stack observability, and this partnership represents a significant leap in enabling customers to modernize with assurance.”

Real-world experience underscores the platform’s impact. Alex Hibbitt, Engineering Director for the Customer Platform at Storio group, shared his team’s journey. “Moving away from our legacy log management system presented a major challenge,” Hibbitt noted. “Dynatrace offered a streamlined and scalable method that simplified our entire operational framework. Utilizing Grail and Davis AI, we have gained immediate insights and lowered complexity throughout our environment. This transition has been truly transformative for our overall observability approach.”

The integrated migration solution from Dynatrace and Crest Data is currently available. Organizations planning a move from conventional log platforms can reach out to either company for further details. Development is already underway to extend migration support to other common platforms.

(Source: ITWire Australia)