Dynatrace launches early access to Grail on Google Cloud

Dynatrace has announced early access to its latest platform innovations for Google Cloud customers, powered by its GrailTM data lakehouse.

The Grail data lakehouse aims to provide joint customers with actionable answers by retaining context across all data types. This capability is vital as organisations increasingly adopt cloud-native environments to drive innovation and digital transformation, necessitating the management of vast volumes of data.

Traditional observability tools often struggle with delivering real-time insights due to the complexity and vastness of data stores, leading to inefficiencies. Grail seeks to address these issues, transforming complexity into an asset that helps organisations extract real-time intelligence from their data. It aims to unify observability, security, and business data to swiftly derive insights, boost performance, and maintain a competitive edge within Google Cloud environments.

The platform utilises AI-driven precision through the integration of Davis AI, facilitating accurate insights and expedient issue resolution. Additionally, Grail's cloud-native architecture supports scalable data processing that combines the access speed of hot storage with the cost benefits of cold-tier storage. This integration eliminates the need for re-indexing and rehydration operations that are common with other observability solutions.

Grail offers seamless integration with Google Cloud, allowing organisations to unify and analyse data within their existing cloud ecosystems. This feature enhances both performance and security integration within business operations.

Google's Gemini Code Assist further supports developers by providing an AI-powered coding assistant for tasks such as code generation and debugging. This feature enables developers to access critical Dynatrace data without disrupting their workflow, enhancing the speed of issue resolution and fostering continuous innovation.

Diving into AI model observability, the platform supports tracking and monitoring the consumption, cost, and performance of AI services and models provided by Google's Gemini models. These models are designed to understand and generate multimodal outputs such as text, images, audio, and video, thereby operating at scale.

Mitch Ashley, Vice President and Practice Lead for DevOps and Application Development at The Futurum Group, emphasised the importance of such advancements. "The winners in the digital-first world are those who get their 'data house' in order. This requires harnessing large amounts of data, scalable processing and performance, and AI to infer new insights unattainable without such a solution," he said. "Expanding Dynatrace observability and security, along with the power of Grail and Davis AI, to Google Cloud customers brings a solid platform to tackle these challenges."

Ritika Suri, Managing Director of AI & Data ISV Partnerships at Google Cloud, also commented on the partnership. "AI-powered observability has the power to transform how organisations manage their cloud-native environments," she stated. "Solutions like Dynatrace Grail, integrated with Google Cloud's leading AI and infrastructure, enable customers to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and confidently drive innovation."

Jay Snyder, Senior Vice President of Partners and Alliances at Dynatrace, remarked on the impact of Grail. "Grail has been a game changer for Dynatrace, setting us apart by delivering real-time insights at an unprecedented scale," he commented. "By combining the capabilities of Grail with the flexibility and power of Google Cloud, Dynatrace empowers customers to innovate faster, operate more efficiently, and achieve their digital transformation goals with confidence."

Google Cloud customers are invited to participate in the early access program, which presents a significant opportunity to explore next-generation observability technology. This collaboration is expected to assist enterprises in modernising operations and improving system reliability.

Dynatrace projects that the Grail data lakehouse will become generally available on Google Cloud by June 30."