Calculate your consumption of Security Posture Management (SPM) (DPS)
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This page describes how the Security Posture Management DPS capability is consumed and billed. For an overview of the capability, including its main features, see Security Posture Management (SPM).
How consumption is calculated: host-hour
The unit of measure for Kubernetes Security Posture Management is a host-hour.
In Kubernetes environments, each node that is scanned during an hour is counted as a host-hour, regardless of how many times it was scanned. You can enable Kubernetes Security Posture Management on a per-cluster basis.
- Kubernetes Security Posture Management is enabled for a Kubernetes cluster with 10 nodes.
- Kubernetes Security Posture Management analysis has been initiated and is ongoing.
- After five days, five nodes are added to the Kubernetes cluster so that there is now a total of 15 nodes on the Kubernetes cluster.
- After 10 days, the overall consumption is calculated as
(10 nodes x 5 days x 24 hours) + (15 nodes x 5 days x 24 hours) = 3000 host-hours.
Track your consumption
This section describes the different Dynatrace tools that you can use to track consumption and costs.
Track your consumption with the ready-made dashboard
The ready-made Usage - Application Security dashboard shows the estimated cost of Security Posture Management alongside the other Application Security capabilities. Use it to see Kubernetes node-hour consumption by cluster, and how it changes over time.
To get the dashboard, go to 
Dashboards > Ready-made and search for Usage - Application Security.
For more information, see Usage - Application Security.
Track your consumption and costs in Account Management
You can also track your usage in Account Management.
- Go to Account Management > Subscription > Overview.
- In Cost and usage details, select Usage summary.
- Search for
Security Posture Managementand select View details.
Track your consumption and costs with Data Explorer
- In Data Explorer, enter
DPSin the Search field).
Track your consumption and costs via API
You can query metrics via the Environment API - Metrics API v2.