Calculate your consumption of Log Management and Analytics - Ingest & Process (DPS)

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Published Aug 12, 2025

What's included with the Ingest & Process data-usage dimension?

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Explanation

Data delivery

Delivery of log data via OneAgent or Log ingestion API (via ActiveGate)

Topology enrichment

Enrichment of log events with data source and topology metadata

Data transformation

- Add, edit, or drop any log attribute
- Perform mathematical transformations on numerical values (for example, creating new attributes based on calculations of existing attributes)
- Mask sensitive data by replacing either the whole log record, one specific log record attribute, or certain text with a masked string
- Extract business, infrastructure, application, or other data from raw logs. This can be a single character, string, number, array of values, or other. Extracted data can be turned into a new attribute allowing additional querying and filtering. Metrics can be created from newly extracted attributes (see Conversion to time series below)

Data-retention control

- Filter and exclude incoming logs based on content, topology, or metadata (filtering generates usage for Ingest & Process, but not for Retain)
- Manage data retention periods of incoming logs based on data-retention rules

Conversion to time series

Create metrics from log records or attributes (note that creating custom metrics generates additional consumption as described here)

Apply the following calculation to determine your consumption for the Ingest & Process data-usage dimension:

consumption = (number of GiBs ingested) × (GiB price as per your rate card)

Data enrichment and processing can increase your data volume significantly. Depending on the source of the data, the technology, the attributes, and metadata added during processing, the total data volume after processing can increase by a factor of 2 or more.

Dynatrace reserves the right to work with customers to adjust or disable parsing rules, processors, or pipelines that are experiencing service degradation.

The usage of Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing and Services Services is included with Dynatrace. No consumption is generated by these apps.

How consumption is calculated: GiB

Ingested data is the amount of raw data in bytes sent to Dynatrace before enrichment and transformation. It is calculated per gibibyte (GiB).

Track your consumption

This section describes the different Dynatrace tools that you can use to track consumption and costs.

Track your consumption with Metrics

Dynatrace provides a built-in usage metric that helps you understand and analyze your organization's consumption of Log Management and Analytics - Ingest & Process. To use these metrics, in Data Explorer, enter DPS in the Search field.

Log Management and Analytics usage - Ingest & Process

Key: builtin:billing.log.ingest.usage

Dimension: Byte

Resolution: 1 hour

Description: Number of raw bytes sent to Dynatrace before enrichment and transformation in hourly intervals.

You can monitor the total number of bytes ingested for Ingest & Process in hourly intervals for any selected timeframe using the metric builtin:billing.log.ingest.usage.

The example below shows usage aggregated in 1-hour intervals between 2023-09-04 and 2023-09-11 (last 7 days).

Track your consumption and costs in Account Management

You can also view usage metrics in Account Management. Go to Account Management > Subscription > Overview > Cost and usage details > Usage summary and select the Log Management and Analytics - Ingest & Process capability.

Track your consumption and costs via API

You can query metrics via the Environment API - Metrics API v2.