Perform 2026 Lightning Talks: Present your Productivity Tip in 5 Minutes

[andreas_grabner]

Dear Dynatrace Community

At Perform 2025 we hosted our first Dynatrace Practitioner Meetup featuring 5-minute lightning talks on topics around: Dynatrace Loves OpenTelemetry, How Dynatrace is the Devs Best Friend, Automating the Annoying Tasks with Workflows, Unleash the Dynatrace API, 10 Things learned from Optimizing 50k pods, The power of Site Reliability Guardian and more ...

See here our inaugural meetup speakers! Thanks to them we are doing this again at Perform 2026!

Got a story to share at Perform 2026? Let us know! Get a Perform ticket!

For Perform 2026 we are looking again for Dynatrace community members that are willing to share their daily tips & tricks that make an impact in your organization. We are looking for topics in the areas of AI, MCPs, Tool Integrations, Open Source, Observability Best Practices, Dashboarding, Automation. Here some examples of topics I think would be interesting:

• My Top 3 Prompts for the Dynatrace MCP Server
• An Auto-Remediation Workflow that I think everyone should use!
• How our engineers consume Dynatrace data in Git, Backstage, Visual Studio and why they love it!
• Look what I have vibe-coded: A Dynatrace App in 5 Minutes that saves me two hours every week!
• How I used Dynatrace on my personal open source project
• A Workflow that everyone should have in their automation toolbox
• I learned OpenTelemetry the hard way: 3 things to make your learning curve easier!

If you have a topic in mind let us know by either leave a comment or send an email to devrel@dynatrace.com.

Please send us a title and a short abstract! Deadline is Dec 20th 2025! 

The first 5 valid topic suggestions get a free conference ticket to Perform 2026!

Need help to craft your story?

We are happy help you on your path to Vegas! Whether its helping you building your slides or giving you guidance on how to tell your story if you are not an experienced speaker! 

We - the DevRel Team - will be there as your mentor!

All the best

Andi and the rest of the DevRel Team

[victoria]

I'll be there and I'll give a talk! I...need to come up with something. I've been working with frontend stuff, but that's my breakout session. But could do a real quick talk? Will brainstorm...

[StrangerThing]

I will also be there and also not sure what I would speak about yet, but we can figure it out

[StrangerThing]

Maybe... using DQL to build on the raw span data to gain request-level insights and custom metrics via Workflows

[mkobush]

I would love to talk about how I'm using the Dynatrace MCP server to perform deep dive analysis of problems, cutting research time from 20, 30 minutes to just seconds.  Along with that, how we can use it to build DQL, Dashboards and Workflows using natural language!

[m3tomlins]

Topic: how I used bizevents, workflows and openpipeline to create a "change status" dashboard...synchronizing our ADO change tickets into Dynatrace bizevents. We can display them on a dashboard to help the Platform Engineering team keep up with emergency changes, approval status and change timing/dates.

It looks like a flight status board in an airport terminal, but instead of flights...it's change tickets. 🙂

[ChristineIrene]

I will be there, and I'd love to give a talk about how Dynatrace can fill the black hole in testing... By using Custom headers to identify your test runs coupled with SRG's, workflows and dashboards, you can tie it all together and see the changes in your test runs over time.  Of course, in 5 minutes, it would just be the high-level.

[Erik_Ostermuell]

Is anyone around here load testing before deploying code into production?
How scalable are our systems?
Has someone messed up our system's fantastic performance?

With more than a 100 production environments,
tracking company-wide performance readiness is a hefty task!

We've transformed the old Keptn 1.x project into a modern automation toolkit
for enterprise performance visibility.  Spoiler alert:  these enhancements are company private, but we'll show you how to do all of this:

a. automate & evaluate Chaos Tests
a. Keptn self-onboarding (teams need just a single k8s permission).
b. Training!!!
c. A single Keptn evaluation can evaluate data from multiple SLI providers (DT, prometheus....)
d. Hierarchical view of all your keptn projects!