Dynatrace Perform 2026 – why performance problems rarely live where they appear

Vendor keynotes often describe futures in broad strokes. Technical sessions are where those futures either acquire substance or quietly fall apart in practice.

Much of the opening keynote at Dynatrace Perform 2026 focused on familiar themes in enterprise AI and observability: autonomy, trustworthy automation, and the promise of AI-powered operations. Those announcements warrant deeper analysis in their own right. Away from the main stage, however, the technical sessions offered something more concrete: a chance to see how those ideas translate into day-to-day engineering workflows.

The first breakout had smoke billowing from my keyboard as I tried to keep up – less about what Dynatrace claims to enable, and more about how such capabilities might actually be used in practice. Titled “From Frontend to Backend: Complete Visibility, Zero Blind Spots”, it illustrated a growing expectation in modern software environments: the ability to trace user experience degradation across the entire technology stack without ...