Announcing the Community Member of the Month for February 2019!

Please join us in congratulating a true monitoring passionate, Larry R., the Dynatrace Community Member of the Month for February 2019!

Larry is a Senior Middleware Administrator/Monitoring Architect at Gordon Food Service, passionate about enterprise monitoring, with a special focus on AI and voice assistance. As Larry explains, “AI for me is not just a passion, but something that I get very excited about. There is so much potential for such technology, allowing us to focus on running the business rather than spending countless hours, days, months, and even years trying to figure out how and what to monitor.”

Larry joined the Dynatrace Community in May 2018, but his Dynatrace adventure started back in late 2017. His team’s current monitoring tools were no longer meeting the needs:

“They were never designed for micro-services or cloud, severely lacked on rapids updates, and required high administration. I wanted to replace these tools with cutting edge technology that focused on true AI, SaaS provided, designed with ease of use for both users and administrators, and allowed us to focus on fix things rather than figuring out how to monitor them.“

This led Larry to a 3-month research with a lot of discussions about the best monitoring tools, their ease of use, and leadership in the newest technology.

“With Dynatrace and its ease of use with the OneAgent, we targeted one thing after another in our DEV environment during our trial and started approaching teams with a "Let's toss the OneAgent on and see what we get" approach. For the first time in 15 years, I had teams asking to use monitoring rather than running from it. Not only did I come to the conclusion that Dynatrace was leading the way, but was far ahead of all other vendors on the market.”

Larry can’t imagine a product vendor without an active community and this is also one of the reasons why he contributes to the Dynatrace forums. There’s nothing better than sharing and learning from real life examples!

“Providing and contributing to a strong user community not only aids one another but creates a think tank where new ideas and features are born. I have found through my experience with different vendors and products that customers themselves can often know the best approaches to challenges you may be facing in figuring something out. I love to help others, to thing about a problem with others to find the best solution, and to come together to push forward the best possible solution”, says Larry.

What Larry likes best about the Dynatrace Community are its active users:

“Dynatrace and the community around it are not only just active with the user base, the great people who work for Dynatrace are just as active. They take the time to answer questions and truly evaluate the RFE's which get posted. The Dynatrace community is the perfect foundation for which Dynatrace sits on.”

On his off hours, Larry spends time with his wife, 4 children, and his 2015 Harley Davidson Ultra Glide Classic:

“I have had a strong love for motorcycles since I could walk. I spend as much time as I can riding in Michigan when the weather allows. During the winter, I usually pick up a project bike that I customize and rebuild in my garage to keep me busy. “

Larry, thank you for sharing your story and building the Dynatrace Community into a valuable place for all Dynatrace users!

Congratulations!

Winners of this award are also immediately eligible to win the Rock Star Community awards. See our Community Rock Stars recognized at Perform 2019!