Dynatrace Davis CoPilot (now Dynatrace Assist)
Dynatrace launched Davis CoPilot Sep-2023 — GenAI conversational interface on top of the (deterministic) Davis AI engine, the largest causal-AI observability deployment. Dynatrace parent: NYSE:DT, $1.4B+ revenue.
Renamed · Verified 2026-10-28 · fresh as of 2026-10-28 · 21 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T1
- Created
- 2023-09 (Davis CoPilot) vendor fix
- Latest release
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- not applicable — wrong section fix
- Funding
- Dynatrace: public (NYSE: DT) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
- Protocols
- mcp-server repo fix
- Compliance
- ccpa, fedramp, gdpr, hipaa, iso27001, iso27017, iso42001, soc2-type2 vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: conversational observability + causal-AI explanations
Anti-fit: not applicable — wrong section
Pros & cons
Pros
Davis underlying causal-AI is one of the most mature in observability; CoPilot is a credible LLM overlay; broad enterprise base.
Cons
Davis CoPilot is a conversational overlay vs an agent; differentiation from Datadog Bits AI / New Relic AI Monitoring is narrow.
Claims & capabilities
Davis CoPilot launched Sep-2023; sits atop Davis (Dynatrace's deterministic causal-AI); Dynatrace $1.4B+ revenue
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — wrong section
- Backend storage
- not applicable — wrong section
- Deployment
- not applicable — wrong section
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — wrong section
- MCP
- yes — Dynatrace MCP Server; Assist uses the same tools hosted on it
- A2A
- not applicable — wrong section
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — wrong section
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Sources (20 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is GenAI assistant for the Davis AI observability engine vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Dynatrace launched Davis CoPilot Sep-2023 — GenAI conversational interface on top of the… vendor
- Claims / benefits Davis CoPilot launched Sep-2023; sits atop Davis (Dynatrace's deterministic causal-AI); … vendor
- Created 2023-09 (Davis CoPilot) vendor
- Funding Dynatrace: public (NYSE: DT) vendor
- Customers / scale 3700+ Dynatrace customers; Fortune 500 heavy vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type II; ISO 27001; FedRAMP vendor
- HQ Waltham, MA / Linz, Austria vendor
- Founders / pedigree Dynatrace (Rick McConnell CEO) vendor
- MCP support yes — Dynatrace MCP Server; Assist uses the same tools hosted on it vendor
- Optimised for conversational observability + causal-AI explanations vendor
- Pros Davis underlying causal-AI is one of the most mature in observability; CoPilot is a cred… vendor
- Cons Davis CoPilot is a conversational overlay vs an agent; differentiation from Datadog Bits… vendor
- Project & sources www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/dynatrace-davis-copilot/ vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- compliance-certifications ccpa,fedramp,gdpr,hipaa,iso27001,iso27017,iso42001,soc2-type2 vendor
- protocol-support mcp-server repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-28
- Name “Dynatrace Davis CoPilot” → “Dynatrace Davis CoPilot (now Dynatrace Assist)”
- Homepage “https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/dynatrace-davis-copilot/” → “https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/dynatrace-assist-ask-analyze-and-act-with-dynatrace-intelligence/”
- MCP support “not applicable — wrong section” → “yes — Dynatrace MCP Server; Assist uses the same tools hosted on it” source