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APM Greenfield Rollout
Deployed Dynatrace OneAgent across 800+ services in 90 days. MTTR dropped from 47 minutes to 12 minutes within the first quarter post-launch.
Outcome at a Glance
The Challenge
A Fortune 500 retailer was missing critical incidents during peak shopping season. Their monitoring stack had grown across four legacy tools — none with full coverage, all with conflicting alerts. Engineering leadership wanted Dynatrace fully deployed before the next holiday season.
- Fragmented monitoring: Four legacy tools with overlapping but incomplete coverage; no single pane of glass during incidents.
- 47-minute MTTR: Average time-to-resolution across critical retail incidents — far above industry benchmarks for the category.
- 800+ services, 90-day window: Scope: full platform instrumentation. Deadline: pre-Black-Friday code freeze.
- Heterogeneous stack: Mix of Java, .NET, Node, Go, and PHP services on Kubernetes, EC2, and bare-metal — agent deployment had to work everywhere.
Our Approach
Wave-based deployment
Sequenced agent deployment by service tier and runtime, enabling fast feedback loops and contained blast radius for any rollout issues.
- • 6 deployment waves, weekly cadence
- • Auto-injection on Kubernetes
- • Helm chart and Terraform modules
Service-level objective layer
SLOs mapped to business outcomes — checkout latency, search availability, payment success — not raw infrastructure metrics.
- • 24 business-aligned SLOs
- • Automated error-budget tracking
- • Per-funnel availability dashboards
Davis AI tuning
Trained baseline detection on pre-peak traffic, suppressed seasonal-noise patterns, configured comparison windows for promotional events.
- • Seasonality-aware baselines
- • Promotional-event suppression rules
- • Auto-correlated root cause
Runbook automation
Replaced 40+ manual triage steps with automated diagnostic checks, cutting acknowledgment-to-action time dramatically.
- • Workflow automation for top-10 alerts
- • Auto-attached forensics on page
- • Direct-to-owner routing
Detailed Results
Before
- • 47-minute average MTTR
- • 4 disconnected monitoring tools
- • ~60% effective service coverage
- • Manual incident triage
After
- • 12-minute average MTTR (74% reduction)
- • Single pane of glass on Dynatrace
- • 99.95% agent coverage across 800+ services
- • Automated triage on top-10 alert types
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