Dynatrace Quick Hit - OpenPipeline - 1 - The 'Why': Solving Daily Frustrations with a New Approach

The journey into mastering a new platform capability begins not with technical specifications, but with a foundational question rooted in a universal business reality: cost. For any modern IT organization, the volume of data generated by systems—logs, metrics, traces, and events—is expanding at an exponential rate. With this expansion comes a commensurate, and often unsustainable, increase in cost. The organization is currently paying a premium to ingest, process, and store every piece of data, regardless of its intrinsic value. This includes everything from a critical transaction failure to a verbose, low-value debug log from a temporary test environment. In essence, the organization is paying a premium for noise.