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MaciejNeumann
Community Team
Community Team

Product ideas

Dynatrace is a product-driven company, and you—our users—know best what’s needed to make Dynatrace even better. That’s why we’re committed to listening to your needs and turning them into actual product improvements.

 

What is a Product idea?

A Product idea is a suggestion for a new feature, enhancement, or improvement to Dynatrace. Whether it’s a minor tweak or a game-changing innovation, your ideas might help shape the product's future.

 

💡Tip: Only logged-in users can view and post in the Product ideas forum.

 

How to submit an idea?

We strongly encourage you to share your thoughts! Submitting an idea is easy - just follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Product ideas forum and click Suggest an idea
  2. Start typing in the Product idea subject field—this will show similar existing ideas so you can avoid duplicates.

 

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   3. If your idea hasn’t been suggested yet, fill in the details in the description field.
   4. Use clear formatting to make your idea easy to read and get more votes from the other Community members.
   5. Add labels to help route your idea to the right Product Manager.

 

💡 Tip: To make submitting as easy as possible, the Product idea page includes a helpful step-by-step widget with examples of well-described ideas!

 

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The well-crafted idea moves through the review process faster!

 

Track your idea’s progress

Once submitted, your idea is assigned to the Product Manager responsible for that specific product area and goes through a review and development process.

You’ll see status updates like:

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If there are any obstacles along the way, you may see one of these statuses:

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💡Tip: All the ideas you’ve submitted (and followed) can be tracked on your Profile page. So convenient! This way, you can stay up to date on progress, status changes, and discussions related to your contributions.

 

Browse Product ideas

In the Product ideas forum, you’ll find different statuses at the top of the page. Simply select a status to see all ideas currently in that stage of the review and development process.

 

You can filter Product ideas by Hot, Top, and New ideas.


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Want to stay in the loop? Follow a status to get updates whenever an idea in that category progresses—so you’re always up to date.

 

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Why voting matters

Don’t only submit—support other Product ideas by voting!

 

Community votes help us measure demand for new features. The more votes an idea gets, the higher the chance it moves up the priority list. While all ideas are reviewed, high-voted ones often get attention faster.

 

Product ideas review

🔹 Regular reviews: Product Managers assess ideas every few months, focusing on the most popular and well-described ones.

🔹 Collaboration: PMs may ask follow-up questions—responding quickly increases the chances of solving your problem.

 

Need help?

  1. Check the FAQ.
  2. Explore the comprehensive Dynatrace Community User Guide.
  3. Don’t hesitate and reach out to us via team-community@dynatrace.com.

 

Remember, your input drives innovation at Dynatrace. Start sharing your ideas today!

9 Comments
zietho
Dynatrace Leader
Dynatrace Leader

@MaciejNeumann  you could also directly link "suggest an idea" => https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/DynatraceProductIdeas to save one click?

GilesDay
Advisor

Would you be able to develop a way to see how many ideas we've posted, and how many are at the various stages. 

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 (ie a personal view of this, oe created 20 ideas, 10  completed,  5 indirectly addressed, 1 candidate, 4 No Progress)

 

MaciejNeumann
Community Team
Community Team

Hello @GilesDay,

This is a great idea, and we've created a solution for it. Sometime around next week, you'll be able to check how many of your Product Ideas have a specific status. The statistics will be at the top of the list of "Ideas" tab in the User Activity widget in the User profile:

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While it will be only overall statistics of how many of your ideas have which status at the moment, we'll see if we will be able to make them clickable links to the list of those ideas with specific status in the future. No specific plans or timeline for that, but we see, how it could be useful for many users. 

GilesDay
Advisor

Thats great! I wish all my ideas had this quick of a turnaround 🙂 Clickable links would be useful, especially to track how things are progressing. I could also see it as a resume booster, submitted 50 ideas/RFE's to Dynatrace with 10 implemented and 25 in various stages of being implemented, with significant community votes of 4000 across all 50 ideas or something... (someone can wordsmith this better than I can)

MaciejNeumann
Community Team
Community Team

The update to the widget is now live. :dancing_penguin:

Now, every user can check the statistics of statuses of their Product ideas by going to "My profile" and clicking on "Ideas" in the User Activity widget.

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[EDIT - There is still some small bug, but we should be able to fix it soon - I'll update this post when this happens]

zietho
Dynatrace Leader
Dynatrace Leader

yes, i guess i ran into the bug, I don't see any suggestions. And yes being able to click it would be really really useful ;). 

MaciejNeumann
Community Team
Community Team

The bug fix just went to production. Now, the data in the widget should be correct 🙂

AntonioSousa
DynaMight Guru
DynaMight Guru

This is great!!!

gbaudart
DynaMight Champion
DynaMight Champion

Wonderful !