What is the primary purpose of the Dynatrace Application Security feature?

The primary purpose of the Dynatrace Application Security feature is to detect and remediate vulnerabilities within applications. This function is crucial for ensuring that applications remain secure against potential threats and exploits. Dynatrace achieves this by automatically scanning applications for vulnerabilities, providing actionable insights to developers and security teams, and helping to prioritize which vulnerabilities should be addressed first based on risk level. This proactive approach allows organizations to enhance their security posture, ensuring that potential security issues are identified and mitigated before they can be exploited by malicious actors.

While managing code repositories, monitoring network traffic, and optimizing database performance are important aspects of application and infrastructure management, they do not directly relate to the specific focus of application security, which centers on safeguarding applications against vulnerabilities and threats. This distinction underscores why detecting and remediating vulnerabilities is the central aim of the Dynatrace Application Security feature.