topic Re: Host Unit consumption in Dashboarding

Create a chart for Host Unit consumption

service_apms — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:14:59 GMT

Hello

is there a way to create a chart for HU consumption like the one we have on DEM units with the Billing section ?

If not do you have any suggestions ? how do you deal with this subject ?

Thank you

Re: Host Unit consumption

ugo_abbuehl — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:01:25 GMT

Same need here also...

Re: Host Unit consumption

ChadTurner — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:46:10 GMT

Hello everyone. This use to be possible via the UI and was quite easy, but now you will need to resort to the Environment API for this data to be pulled.

If you are a SAS customer you can also Navigate to the Cluster page, just like in Managed, and see the overall consumption as well as per the environment. This will show as host unit hours or host units - depending on you contract.

Re: Host Unit consumption

ChadTurner — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 18:02:41 GMT

You can also use the following: https://dynatrace.github.io/BizOpsConfigurator/#HUreport

Re: Host Unit consumption

dubois_david — Wed, 12 May 2021 18:38:38 GMT

Is there a way to create this report in an automated manner so the data can be extracted and loaded to a visualization tool or Dynatrace itself?

Re: Host Unit consumption

adam_gardner — Thu, 13 May 2021 00:41:10 GMT

Hi, the tool is first doing an API call to

https://*******.live.dynatrace.com/api/v1/entity/infrastructure/hosts?includeDetails=true

Which returns a JSON doc with lots of fields but the one you care about is consumedHostUnits:

[{ ... "consumedHostUnits": 0.25 ... }]

From there, the tool is performing this logic to calculate the different figures.

If you'd like Dynatrace to build this automated report for you, I'd advise speaking to your local Dynatrace Services team lead who will be able to assist.

Re: Host Unit consumption

Theodore_x86 — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 10:10:41 GMT

Hello. Is this dashboard still available?

Thanks.

Re: Host Unit consumption

r_weber — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:35:57 GMT

I'm using a custom extension "missing metrics" that calculates the HU consumption per host/hostgroup/tag and reports this back to dynatrace as a metric so we can put it on a dashboard:

The AG extension is rather simple, uses the API to get entities and reports back the overall HU consumption per "licensebucket" tag. If you're interested I can share it.

Re: Host Unit consumption

Theodore_x86 — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:47:07 GMT

My primary scope is to calculate HU consumption per MZ. Please share it if we can filter consumption per MZ!

Thank you!

Thodoros

Re: Host Unit consumption

Julius_Loman — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 16:45:23 GMT

@Theodore_x86 I have something similar to @r_weber's solution (not having that as AG extension), you can get the script from here:
https://github.com/Alanata-a-s/Dynatrace-License-Reporting-Scripts
It pushes back metric bound to the hosts, so you can easily then query the sum per MZ in Data Explorer and have that on a dashboard.

Also besides calculating it also can send event in case a host get disabled due to license exhaustion. (One event per host at the moment)

Re: Host Unit consumption

Yosi_Neuman — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:29:39 GMT

Hi @Julius_Loman

This is great implementation!.

Downloaded the code, set 2 environment variables and run it.

With no time got invaluable information from the dashboard and problems that were created!

Thanks for sharing!

Yos

Re: Host Unit consumption

Julius_Loman — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:39:45 GMT

Thanks for the positive feedback!

Re: Host Unit consumption

dbednar — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:46:11 GMT

I'd like to get that if possible.

Re: Create a chart for Host Unit consumption

dneimke — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 03:51:51 GMT

There needs to be an out-of-the box solution for the v2 API.

Re: Host Unit consumption

dreeseLP — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:00:36 GMT

I Like this data.
Can you please share for me :).
Trying to get HU data from our environment.
It looks like we need more and I trying to see how much more.
Thank you.

Re: Create a chart for Host Unit consumption

NicolasTr — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:52:27 GMT

Of course !

It looks API v1 are deprecated.

dt.entity.host on v2 doesn't seems to get the information.

For the moment, as far as I know, there is no way to do it using notebooks or new dashboards with Grail 😕

That's a missing part !

Re: Host Unit consumption

kenyu216 — Thu, 30 May 2024 19:51:37 GMT

Hi
Can you share with me the AG extension that you are using?
Pls Slack me at ken.yu@dynatrace.com
Thank you!

Re: Host Unit consumption

lawrence_cuneaz — Thu, 30 May 2024 21:07:46 GMT

Hello r_weber,

An ActiveGate extension that pulls Host Units into Dynatrace as a metric broken down by Host Group, tags or Management zones is awesome!

Would you be able to share a link to the Activegate extension that you created?

I know we are shifting into DPS licensing but I have a need to chart classic host unit licensing on a dashboard.

Appreciate it,

Lawrence