topic Re: DPS Cost Allocation Dashboard - UPDATED v3.3 in DPS Cost Allocation

DPS Cost Allocation Dashboard - UPDATED v3.8

Sophie_Mayerw — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:10:13 GMT

Hi dear community,

We’ve rolled out major improvements (v3.8) for our Cost Allocation dashboard so you can get the most accurate insights.

I've also switched on how to publish the Dashboard. It's now included in our Community Github.

So please see here to download the dashboard. Based on Feedback I've also included a tiny script which helps to get the price details correctly into the dasboard based on your Account Management Details (no API token needed)

What’s new?

Broader usage coverage

Metrics ingest is now included and fully cost allocation supported
ALL DPS SaaS capabilities (except classics) are now shown. Even not supported ones are shown as unassigned
Note: Usage currently shows as “unassigned” if not yet support Cost Allocation

👉 What this means:

You now get a complete 360° view of usage and estimated costs for all DPS SaaS capabilities (except Classic) within an environment — even where Cost Allocation support is still pending.

Usability & configuration improvements

Filter dropdown issues resolved
Retain capability calculations fixed
Units are now shown alongside rate card prices to make configuration easier and less error‑prone

Friendly reminder: Before this dashboard shows you detailed information, you must set up DPS Cost Allocation. The documentation can be found here: https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/license/cost-allocation

If data is missing, please check:

Host monitoring specific:
1. OneAgent version (min. 1.291)
2. OneAgent restart
Telemetry (Log, Traces) specific:
1. Query your Logs/Traces to identify if a dt.cost.costcenter/dt.cost.product is present in your ingested data
Configuration of Allow List

You can also find a step-by-step checklist in our documentation:

https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/license/cost-allocation#troubleshooting

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

DanielS — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:01:20 GMT

Great Work!!!

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

sqnocopsguy — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:23:52 GMT

greetings - we are missing data in the dashboard. cost center/product fields all show as unassigned.

we imported the DPS Cost Allocation - Usage & Costs v1.3.
we have configured the allowlist via Account Management UI as suggested, but found that on the usage/cost area, the Cost center and Product all show as unassigned.
this was completed several weeks ago
to troubleshoot:
- confirmed OneAgent version 1.309 on hosts
- we followed the guidance to compare the Cost Allocation tags on the host with the Cost Allocation allowlist.
- we confirmed that the tag name is correct, and the tag value is included in the Cost Center or Product allowlist.
- later, we restarted the OneAgents on these hosts.
- still, several days after agent restarts, the data is missing for Cost Allocations.

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

scardignos — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:12:02 GMT

The documentation provides two methods (command line or UI) for applying tag values to the host. Which did you choose?

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

sqnocopsguy — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:57:16 GMT

UI (manually applied tags)

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

Sophie_Mayerw — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 07:58:39 GMT

Please check the OneAgent configuration to ensure the tags have not been applied via UI onto the host but onto the OneAgent configuration as mentioned here: https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/cost-allocation#oneagent-configuration-assign-cost-centers-and-products

If the tag has been applied onto the Host on the UI: Please remove the tag there and add it to the OneAgent configuration via Deployment status or CLI

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

ian_molyneaux1 — Wed, 07 May 2025 10:00:37 GMT

Hi, looks great - just wanted to confirm - if a client has cost-center spread across multiple tenants can we provide a consolidated multi-tenant analysis or is that a future enhancement? Kr Ian

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

Sophie_Mayerw — Wed, 07 May 2025 10:26:59 GMT

Hi Ian!
Dynatrace does not currently provide a consolidated multi-tenant view for cost allocation cost-center data directly within the platform. However, you can retrieve and consolidate this data externally using the following methods:

Account Management API: Use the Account Management API to extract cost allocation data from each tenant and consolidate it externally.
CSV Export: Export cost allocation data from each tenant via the Account Management web UI and combine the CSV files in an external reporting tool.

For further details, please refer to the Account Management API documentation and the Cost Allocation guide.

We're aware of the need for a UI within Account Management, but it's not yet on our roadmap.

BR,
Sophie

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

Malaik — Wed, 07 May 2025 12:28:26 GMT

hello

In Managed,

Im not able to find the cost allocation menu.

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

Sophie_Mayerw — Thu, 08 May 2025 15:31:30 GMT

Hi Malaik,
DPS Cost Allocation is a SaaS only feature. That's why it's not visible in the menu for Managed Accounts.

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

CTull — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:35:29 GMT

Great work Sophie,

I was wondering if you can or find time to add in functionality for being able to determine costs and add variables for extensions. Those have a means for cost center and product but are not based on full\infra\discovery. Example is from the IBM MQ monitoring extension.

Here is a query we found that gives me close to what I need but would love to be able to isolate extensions themselves.

Query example:

dsfm:server.metrics.ingest.external_datapoints:filter(and(or(in("dt.entity.extensions:extension",entitySelector("type(extensions:extension),entityName.equals(~"com.dynatrace.extension.ibm-mq~")"))))):splitBy():sort(value(auto,descending))*97.5/100000000

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

Chayaphot — Tue, 13 May 2025 09:11:33 GMT

This is really great.

But I would like to ask you something more.

Right now we can only monitor some capabilities, right? Is there a way to make them all visible?
Any idea why it only shows up to a short time ago? I tried using the 365 day timeframe but it doesn't show the date I want. Is this because of 'makeTimeseries' or something else?

Best regards,

Chayaphot

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

Sophie_Mayerw — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:10:05 GMT

Thank you @CTull

There is already a way to set the Cost Allocation attributes per extension.
Combined with having Logs & Traces Ingest & Retain available in CQ3 this should do the trick.

I'm working on getting a timeline for Metrics & Events as well. Then all costs which can emerge from an extension can be covered. Feel free to already configure all your extensions and ensure to have all values added to the Cost Allocation Allow List. If you set it up now it will magically start to work as soon as the feature is out 🙂

What do you say? Will this fulfill your needs?

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

Sophie_Mayerw — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:13:28 GMT

Hi @Chayaphot,

Currently DPS Cost Allocation does only support the shown capabilities.
As soon as more capabilities are supported, we will provide a new dashboard to match all supported capabilities.

To your question about the timeframe: I assume the timeframe matches when you started configuring DPS Cost Allocation. In order to get values generated you need to setup:

DPS Cost Allocation Allow List
One Agent configuration to include dt.cost.costcenter / dt.cost.product

Since this feature has only been available since October '24, there can't be 365 days of data yet.

HTH,

Sophie

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

Chayaphot — Wed, 14 May 2025 07:37:40 GMT

Hi @Sophie_Mayerw Thank you for your reply.

It is understandable that we can only show this much capability at this time.

But for the timeframe, I actually don't do Cost Allocation on the Management page. I adjust it by separating it by MZ (as requested by the client).

Now I think it's not related to the Cost Allocation configuration, but maybe it's related to the DQL script or other limitation.

Not sure if anyone else has had the same issue as I tried using the dashboard in the demo tenant (guu84124) and it only showed data up to December.

Best regards,

Chayaphot

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

Sophie_Mayerw — Wed, 14 May 2025 08:05:08 GMT

OK, I see - this dashboard is built on top of Cost Allocation data. It doesn't use management zones or anything else. Since management zones will no longer be supported, I highly recommend starting a transition process to another data basis.

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

Chayaphot — Wed, 14 May 2025 08:13:35 GMT

Actually, it works well with MZ, but you have to modify the DQL a lot. As mentioned, the problem I encountered was that the data could not be viewed as it should be (even after importing without any modification), and this is a problem that customers have mentioned in many places that use this dashboard.
You can see this image for example.

Best regards,

Chayaphot

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

ColinM — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:03:11 GMT

Hi Sophie, Will this be added to the roadmap? If so then do you have a timeline?

We have implemented a comprehensive chargeback model are finding the inability to report granular costs per tenant to be a significant constraint. It would be really helpful to have this capability directly in the platform.

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

Sophie_Mayerw — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:15:50 GMT

Hi @ColinM!

ad "report granular costs per tenant": We currently don't support all capabilities with Cost Allocation. There are several workarounds available on the environment level, though. Please check out this page: https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/manage/dynatrace-platform-subscription/manage-costs/cost-allocation#supported-capabilities

All capabilities supported by Cost Allocation will also show up in the Cost Allocation report within Account Management. Please check this page:

https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/manage/dynatrace-platform-subscription/manage-costs/cost-allocation#export-cost-allocation-data

Re: DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

Kenny_Gillette — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:18:42 GMT

This is great. We discussed in "Dynatrace Western Meeting" meeting today and many of us think it would be best for the dashboard to explain exactly how to bring in unit prices into the dashboard.

Could dashboard be setup so you just have to copy and paste from "pricing details"?