DevCycle is Now Part of Dynatrace!
I’m thrilled to announce that DevCycle has been acquired by Dynatrace.
This acquisition marks a pivotal moment for our team and our customers. By joining forces with Dynatrace, we are taking a giant leap toward a future where feature delivery is not just faster, but radically safer and smarter.
There is much more to come, but I want to share why we’ve taken this step and what it means for the future of software delivery.
DevCycle’s Approach
Our team has been building Feature Flagging and Experimentation software for the past 13 years, proudly from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From this learning, DevCycle was built on a simple premise: developers need to be able move fast without breaking things. Our team has focused on simplifying release controls, helping everyone from Fortune 100 companies to fast-growing startups collaborate and release in real-time.
A cornerstone of our philosophy has been our commitment to developers and OpenFeature. We didn’t just want to build another tool; we wanted to build a tool deeply integrated into a developer’s workflow that leveraged a trusted and widely adopted open-standard to allow for flexibility and interoperability.
We believe that feature management should be vendor-neutral and accessible to every developer, regardless of their stack.
Why Dynatrace?
Joining Dynatrace offers a unique opportunity to realize a shared vision that goes beyond Feature Flagging. It aligns perfectly with three key areas:
- A Shared DNA in Open Standards
Dynatrace isn’t just an acquirer; they are a partner in the OpenFeature movement. In fact, Dynatrace helped create and lead the OpenFeature standard in 2022. Because DevCycle is built on this standard, our platforms are a natural extension of one another. This shared foundation means we can deliver a seamless experience where flags, whether from DevCycle or any OpenFeature-compliant system, are native citizens in Dynatrace’s Observability world. - Moving from Observability to Action
Teams today are under immense pressure. As AI-assisted development accelerates code creation across development, test, and production environments, risk no longer emerges only at release time and instead accumulates continuously as changes move through the delivery lifecycle. Teams need visibility and control that extend beyond a single environment, allowing them to understand the impact of change early and respond with confidence.
Together, we are enabling a more integrated system of insight and action. By unifying DevCycle’s runtime control with Dynatrace’s real-time, AI-powered intelligence, teams can close the loop between change and outcome across the entire delivery process. Instead of waiting for issues to escalate, the system can automatically adjust feature flags to limit exposure, disable unstable functionality, or shed load without manual intervention. - The Era of AI-Native Applications
The complexity of modern software is exploding, particularly with AI-native applications. Dynatrace is uniquely positioned to handle this complexity. Together, we can enable:
- Progressive Delivery: Safely rolling out LLM models, prompts, or usage limits to small cohorts.
- Experimentation: Running real-traffic A/B tests on AI model variants to measure quality and cost in production, not just offline.
- Automated Remediation: Using health signals to instantly revert changes if anomalies are detected.
What Happens Next?
For our customers this means we aren’t going anywhere, the DevCycle you know and love today will be here tomorrow. We will be working as part of the Dynatrace team toward bringing our functionality into the Dynatrace platform in due course.
For developers, this means a more unified experience—where feature management, experimentation, debugging, and observability come together in a single workflow, reducing cognitive load and making it easier to understand the impact of every change.
We now have the backing of a global leader to build the best Feature Management tool on the market, that’s deeply integrated with the best Observability tool on the market.
We’re excited to share an updated roadmap that focuses on Progressive Delivery and automated remediation in the weeks and months ahead.
If you have any questions, you can reach out to your account manager or our support team.
A New Chapter
By integrating DevCycle’s precise runtime controls with Dynatrace’s comprehensive intelligence, we are moving closer to a vision of autonomous operations, where software systems can be continuously guided, optimized, and protected in real time.
We are incredibly excited to join the Dynatrace team to continue our mission of growing OpenFeature and redefining how the world delivers software.
Stay tuned for more updates!