Carbon Impact translates host utilization metrics into a CO2 equivalent (CO2e). Carbon emissions are allocated to host instances and summarized by data center. Optimization recommendations are automatic and focus on idle and under-utilized instances.
Carbon Impact is intended for users who want to:
- Track IT carbon footprint for regulatory purposes.
- Support carbon reduction initiatives.
Dynatrace OneAgent collects host utilization metrics, including CPU, memory, disk, and network I/O, as inputs to a conversion formula that also considers geo-specific energy factors to calculate CO2e.
The formula was developed with guidance from the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA).
In-depth carbon reduction use cases are supported by:
- Granular time- and host-based filtering.
- Connected Smartscape dependency mapping.
- Ad-hoc analytics in Notebooks.