Cost & Carbon Optimization

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  • Calculates your IT carbon footprint at the data center and host levels for multi hybrid-cloud infrastructure.
  • Calculates your IT cost based on public price list from cloud vendors for each region and at host level.
  • Translates utilization metrics—including CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O—into energy consumption in kWh and CO2 equivalents (CO2e).
  • Reports carbon dioxide emissions and price list costs in a single interface— Cost & Carbon Optimization Cost & Carbon Optimization landing page.
  • Identifies opportunities to reduce costs and carbon emissions.

Existing infrastructure metrics on hosts

Carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption are calculated for hosts that are set up and monitored with OneAgent. Energy calculations are based on observed infrastructure metrics.

  1. In Cost & Carbon Optimization Cost & Carbon Optimization, go to the Hosts tab.
  2. Check that you have at least one host instrumented.

Installation and user permissions

The user who installs and sets up the app needs to have privileges to install apps, set up automation, and read or write business events.

Copy the block below to add IAM policy statements based on the required permissions. Note that these statements are for the user who installs and sets up the app.

ALLOW app-engine:functions:run;
ALLOW app-settings:objects:read;
ALLOW app-settings:objects:write;
ALLOW automation:workflows:read;
ALLOW automation:workflows:write;
ALLOW environment-api:entities:read;
ALLOW iam:bindings:read;
ALLOW notification:self-notifications:read;
ALLOW notification:self-notifications:write;
ALLOW state:app-states:read, state:app-states:write;
ALLOW storage:bizevents:read;
ALLOW storage:buckets:read;
ALLOW storage:entities:read;
ALLOW storage:events:write;
ALLOW storage:filter-segments:read;
ALLOW storage:metrics:read;

The Dynatrace Hub entry for Cost & Carbon Optimization Cost & Carbon Optimization lists the required permissions to use the app.

  1. In Hub Hub, select Cost & Carbon Optimization Cost & Carbon Optimization.
  2. Go to the Technical Information tab.
  3. Check the User permissions section for a list of all the permissions you need to include in the policies bound to user groups that are allowed to use Cost & Carbon Optimization Cost & Carbon Optimization.

For more information, see Manage user permissions with IAM policies and Workflow authorization settings.

Grant permissions to Workflows

Check if Workflows has the required permissions to run automations: open Workflows Workflows, select Settings > Authorization settings in the upper-right corner, and ensure that the following settings are enabled.

  • app-engine:apps:run
  • app-engine:functions:run
  • app-settings:objects:read
  • automation:workflows:read
  • automation:workflows:write
  • environment-api:entities:read
  • iam:bindings:read
  • state:app-states:read
  • state:app-states:write
  • storage:bizevents:read
  • storage:buckets:read
  • storage:entities:read
  • storage:events:write
  • storage:metrics:read

Dynatrace Cost & Carbon Optimization Cost & Carbon Optimization enables you to calculate and monitor your IT public prices list cost and carbon footprint. It tracks, reports, and helps you optimize the costs from your cloud infrastructure and reduce your carbon emissions resulting from your cloud and on-premises infrastructure electricity consumption.

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Landing page

The Cost & Carbon Optimization Cost & Carbon Optimization tab provides an at-a-glance view of your IT carbon footprint.

  • The Carbon & Energy Footprint summary reports total CO2e emissions for the selected and preceding timeframes for quick interval-based comparisons.
  • Wasted energy summary is also reported with the selected and preceding timeframe.
  • Publicly listed cloud costs reports calculated cloud costs. Costs associated with the instrumented hosts are also displayed in the same format for the selected and preceding timeframes.

  • Optimization recommendations reports idle hosts and underutilized hosts with their cost and wasted energy measured.

    To adjust thresholds influencing these calculations to your needs, select in the upper-right corner to open Settings.

  • The Accumulated carbon footprint over time chart shows the accumulated carbon footprint and energy consumption over time.

  • With the Carbon versus business KPI chart, you can compare carbon emissions over time with a business key performance indicator (KPI) of your choice, derived from any of your captured business events.

  • If cloud costs are calculated, two more charts display Accumulated cloud cost over time and Cloud cost versus business KPI defined.

Learning modules

Go through the following process to learn using Cost & Carbon Optimization Cost & Carbon Optimization:

01Installation & settings
  • How-to guide
  • Install Cost & Carbon Optimization
02Advanced analytics with Notebooks
  • Reference
  • Use Notebooks to analyze your carbon footprint data.

Data centers and hosts

The Data center emissions table on the landing page shows costs, energy, and CO2e consumption per data center. Select a data center name to view details of its hosts.

The Hosts tab details cost, energy, and CO2e consumption per host. You can narrow your search using filters. For example, you can view underutilized hosts in a specific data center or top CO2e emitters.

Expand a hostname to see key infrastructure metrics: CPU in use, Memory in use, and Receiving network traffic. Select a host name to view the host details page in Infrastructure & Operations Infrastructure & Operations.

Cost & Carbon Optimization Cost & Carbon Optimization is automatically connected to Dynatrace Smartscape® topology modeling, so it's easy to see the host details or use Notebooks for ad hoc analysis with DQL.

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