Welcome to DPS SaaS Cost Intelligence: a new home for managing your Dynatrace spend

[Sophie_Mayerw]

 

Most teams know how much they spend on observability. Far fewer can say why it moved last month, who drove it, and what to do about it. With a Dynatrace Platform Subscription (DPS), that question matters more, because every capability draws from one shared pool. A retention setting, an OpenPipeline rule, a dashboard's auto-refresh interval, and a workflow's query all consume from that pool. Each is a small, ongoing financial decision made by whoever configured it.

That's why we're renaming this group from DPS Cost Allocation to DPS SaaS Cost Intelligence. Allocation is still a core topic here. It's now one part of a bigger picture: helping you go from a billing number to an explanation and a next step, without becoming a billing expert first.

Where to start: the new "Manage your costs" docs

We've rebuilt our documentation around the way cost management actually works. Start at docs.dynatrace.com/docs/manage-your-costs. It follows five steps that build on each other:

1. View: See what you're consuming in Account Management, the ready-made Usage - Overview dashboard, or by exporting cost data via API.
2. Allocate: Tag consumption with cost centers and products so every line item has an owner (showback and chargeback).
3. Predict: Read the built-in forecast, project your run rate with DQL, and estimate new workloads before they hit your bill.
4. Control: Set budgets aligned to your commitment and cost monitors that catch anomalies. When an alert fires, trace it back to the source.
5. Optimize: Send and keep less data, and query it more efficiently, guided by drill-down dashboards for traces, logs, and Full-Stack.

If Dynatrace Assist is activated in your environment, you can also ask it cost and usage questions in natural language.

What this group is for

• Ask: "My costs spiked on Tuesday. Where do I start?"
• Share: Allocation setups, DQL queries, dashboards, and alert configurations that worked for you. (There's also the community examples repository on GitHub.)
• Shape: Tell us what's missing. We read this group, and your feedback directly informs what we build next.

Let's start the conversation

Reply below and tell us:

• Which of the five steps is your biggest challenge today?
• What question about your DPS spend do you wish you could answer in seconds?
• Do you share costs across teams? Which allocation model do you use (cost centers, products, both)?

We'll answer as many as we can, and the most common questions will shape our next posts.