Welcome back, Dynatrace Community!
It's good to see again in 2025! As many of you know, the beginning of the new year means that the next edition of Dynatrace Perform is imminent. In less than month you'll be able to see what's in cards for the product for the next weeks, learn success stories of customers and partners, and meet with faces behind the Dynatrace!
But before the next edition kicks off, share with us your favorite stories and memories from the past Dynatrace Perform events! What are the greatest speeches? What inspiring people have you met? What are the greatest skeches or funny moments? Do you have some pictures? Don't hesitate to share all of that below!
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I remember participating as a customer in 2018 Barcelona's Perform 
where management zones were presented.
What an outstanding achievement! 😊
My <1 year old getting inspired by Simone Biles and winning Best Supporting Viewer in 2022... Somehow she's 3.5... where did the time go, we were starting our DT journey then, and now we are live with thousands of agents and more being deployed each week, and hopefully be at 10,000 soon.
Been to two Performs in Europe, Barcelona, and next month it will be my fourth Perform at Vegas. There are so many things I recall, but kept three of the best!
Starting with Perform Europe, I remember it was where AppSec was launched for the very first time in May 2019. I recall that moment vividly, as I also work heavily in Security, and it made total sense for me joining the two areas under the same Observability platform!
Yes, of all the speakers, I would say that @AgataWlodarczyk from the Community Team did an excellent presentation last year:
For the funny fact, I will never forget meeting Davis in person! Most of you might recall that some years ago Davis had a face, and at Perform we discovered she was real! I believe this has never been publicly disclosed, and is a well guarded secret, but the Davis actress & model was Katie Novak: https://www.backstage.com/u/Katienovak/ I don't have a photo with Katie, but from the @andreas_grabner twitter feed:
But, the best part of Perform is certainly the networking. Being able to talk to all participants, many Dynatracers, even Bernd himself, to all other staff at the booths, and specially you all Community members, is certainly something one doesn't forget!
We use traces all the time, but being able to have them in Grail was a big moment for me. Combining DQL queries with trace information gave me a lot of tools to help customers.
I don't remember the course of Perform 2020 anymore, but I know that we had a good time with my team. We are going to have fun again this year.
Last year was my first Perform and it was amazing!!! I made so many awesome connections. Hoping to make more this year!
Here have this picture of Mark!
Oh 🥹,
My memories from my first Perform in 2024...
- Mainstage presentation, together with Michael Glaess 🤗 , and another opportunity to present the Community to a broader audience,
- Meeting in person most of our lovely customers, partners and DynaMights 🤗,
- and, of course, meeting in person a lot of Dynatracers from all over the world 
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❤️ ❤️ ❤️
In 2020, together with @kurt_aigner, we were responsible for preparing and staffing the Expo demo towers 
This was the first Perform where the Community team rep was finally present! 😍
I still have our Expo towers plan from 2020 😃
Decided to open the Dynatrace conference in a unique way. Only a handful of the 3k in attendance knew what I was up to.
Actually finished packing for this year's Perform just a couple of minutes ago 😅 Hope to see as many of you as possible in the next few days! 🙂
My first two Performs were remote, but they let me know from the start that I would feel at home as soon I attended one in person!
It was actually back then that I found the perfect wrist band for my watch, which led to a dear picture of mine: I call it "Time to Perform" 🤣
This was in 2022.
The year after that, I got to go to Vegas with @AntonioSousa , and all my expectations were met: a truly wonderful event, packed with our Community's greaster asset... PEOPLE! 😄
And great people, to be honest!
I never had a single second of boring conversation on any of the Performs I attend: people are genuinely there for the same interests you are, we share so much!
I always have so much fun!
And, you know, time does fly when you're having fun... but, eventually, you'll find the right opportunity to snatch a great photo with Bernd!!! 👀 📸 😁
Even better if you do it with friends:
Those are actually my greatest memories from Perform.
All events have loads of great presentations, crazy (in a good way) announcements, agendas packed with activities... but the moments you share among friends, with fellow Community members... those are the ones that'll last forever 😉
See you all in a bit ❤️
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