Dynatrace Perform 2026 brought together thousands of customers, partners, and industry leaders for four days of learning, innovation, and community celebration. The conference was focused on advancements in observability, agentic AI, and cloud native operations, offering attendees deep insights and practical expertise to drive transformation in their organizations.
Conference delivered a dynamic program of keynotes, breakout sessions, workshops, and hands on training. The event also created space for peer to peer learning, networking, and collaboration with the broader Dynatrace ecosystem, including a new space for Open Source enthusiasts (feel free to join and check it out).
Besides that, this year part of Perform were initiatives for developers where they could not only watch the practitioner mainstage session led by Andreas Grabner @andreas_grabner and Jeff Blankenburg delivering one of the most talked‑about technical stories of the week:
but also explore Dynatrace capabilities independently and interactively, as well learn and have fun during the meetup.
For two days, Perform attendees could be a hero and save the world during the DevLab. It was a demo zone, hands-on, self-service playground where users could troubleshoot real use cases, featuring cutting-edge topics like MCP, agentic AI, vibe coding, OpenTelemetry and cloud native scenarios.
Sneak peak: What was available to the participants during the Perform 2026 onsite only will be available for everyone on the Dynatrace playground soon! When it’s ready be sure that we will let you know about it in a separate article.
Developers could also take part in the Vibe coding event – an ongoing hackathon-style experience with guided vibe coding sessions, empowering developers to build creatively throughout the event. Many took part, but one was a winner. Huge congrats to Tarun Chawdhury @tarunchy33 who won some nice prizes.
Last but not least, developers got together during the Developer meetup. Community-driven event led by Sean O’Dell and Andi Grabner @andreas_grabner offered genuine peer-to-peer connections and sharing lightning talks. We could see there a lot of new faces but the good “old team” didn't let us down either. 😉 DynaMights, Dynatrace Guild and Technical Advisory Guild members, yes they were with us.
Event started with a keynote speech from Dr. Kate Holterhoff (Senior Industry Analyst, RedMonk), then, all meet up lovers could grab a beer and pizza and foster relationships and receive a dose of knowledge in a 5min nutshell (because that's how much each of the speeches had). Time flew by, the speakers had to speed up sometimes, but everyone made it! And by everyone, I mean: Jason Eckhart @Jason_Eckhart , Srinivas Koripali, Dan Healy @dhealy1 & John Martin @john_martin , Mark Tomlinson @m3tomlins, Christine Irene, Mike Kobush @mkobush, Mauro Pessina @mauro_pessina, Jeff Blankenburg @jeffblankenburg, Anthony Carlson @AnthonyACarlson, Christoph Neumueller @Christoph_Neum, Henrik Rexed @HenrikRexed. 👏
In between Lightening Talks, David Hirsch (@DavidHirsch) spoke about Open Ecosystem community, and the meet up itself was also a great opportunity to reward people who have made a huge contribution to Dynatrace ecosystem over the past year - the winners granted with Rock Star Award were:
Jason Eckhart @Jason_Eckhart , Srinivas Koripali, Damian Jankowski @DamianJankowski and Daniel Adams @StrangerThing. Once again, congrats! By the way, not only the winners, but all event participants left equipped with a new book and a warm Dynatrace sweatshirt. 💙
After all, Alois Reitbauer (Chief Technology Strategist of Dynatrace) finished the event providing a talk called “The Conductor or the Lead violist - The Role of the developer in the AI age" - a very inspiring presentation showing the face of AI from a different perspective. 🎼🎶
Well, there was a lot going on during the whole event, so thank you all for taking part in DevRel initiatives and for being so active! Stay awesome and we hope there will be even more of us next year!
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