Modern microservices architecture presents challenges in release management due to the complexity of coordinating hundreds of CI/CD pipelines managed by diverse DevOps teams. Dynatrace offers a solution by centralizing release validation through its workflows, which can be triggered via ITSM or GitOps, thereby maintaining consistent validation standards without modifying each individual pipeline. This approach integrates release validation with ITSM tools such as ServiceNow and Jira, as well as GitOps tools like ArgoCD for Kubernetes deployments, ensuring adherence to organizational standards. Dynatrace's Site Reliability Guardians (SRGs) provide automated validation checkpoints, assessing key metrics like latency and error rates, with the flexibility to tailor validations to specific services using tags. By implementing a phased approach, starting with centralized workflows in ITSM and expanding to GitOps and CI/CD tools, organizations can achieve a balance between centralized oversight and real-time validation, enhancing release quality and responsiveness while empowering both developers and release managers.