Cost & Carbon optimization use case

  • 2min

Environmental sustainability is increasingly important to organizations, investors, customers, and employees. However, IT leaders have lacked the tools they need to measure, understand, report, and reduce their IT carbon footprints. Sustainability has become a board-level issue, with mandates reaching tech leaders.

Introduction

Use Cost & Carbon optimization app to track, monitor, and optimize IT energy consumption and carbon footprint. support carbon emissions reduction initiatives and meet regulatory requirements through analytics and recommendations that drive informed optimization decisions at data center, host, architecture, and code levels.

With Cost & Carbon optimization, you can

  • Measure granular energy consumption and carbon emissions across hybrid multicloud environments.
  • Compare consumption across data centers.
  • Leverage automatic host-level recommendations to help you identify and prioritize carbon reduction opportunities.
  • Support green coding initiatives.
  • Support green coding initiatives.
  • Combine Carbon Impact’s granular emissions data with Dynatrace’s comprehensive developer insights to drive code-level green practices.

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Evaluate optimization options for idling and underutilized hosts

Use Cost & Carbon optimization’s recommendations to focus host-level carbon reduction efforts. Start with Cost & Carbon optimization’s automatically generated lists of idling and underutilized hosts.

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Before you choose to scale down or turn off a host, you need to understand the business purpose of any running services.

First, determine which process consumes most of the CPU cycles.

pic A detailed CPU breakdown shows which service is the largest contributor. pic Method hotspots provide details to inform optimization options.

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Compare carbon emissions across data centers

Geographic decisions – which data center or cloud location – can have a big impact on carbon emissions, to a large degree dependent on the carbon intensity of electricity.

Carbon Impact helps you evaluate moving workloads to a different – greener – cloud.

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