topic Create charts for license consumption per application in Dashboarding

Create charts for license consumption per application

Adrian_Kefirov — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 18:16:46 GMT

Hi all,

I need to create a dashboard with charts for HU, DEM, and DDU consumption per different applications in a client environment.

I have stock charts for Host Units and DDU consumption but it is not able to be shown per application. There is no chart for DEM consumption, but I found a chart for billed user sessions with an option to be shown per application.

Help me with that make 3 charts to show HU, DEM, and DDU consumption per application.

Re: how to create charts for license consumption per application

victor_balbuena — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 06:16:12 GMT

You can't do this with out-of-the-box functionalities of Dynatrace unfortunately, at least until your tenant gets moved to DPS, where you will have new metrics with a lot more freedom. With current consumption metrics, you need to have an extension or a script that calculates the consumption per application (or usually, management zone) by using these metrics and then ingests the calculated consumption back into Dynatrace.

With DPS , new metrics will appear in Dynatrace which you can easily split by Management Zone by default.

Re: how to create charts for license consumption per application

Julius_Loman — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 08:05:32 GMT

For host units, you can use a simple script which will provide you with a host unit metric split by host. Unfortunately, this is not built into the product.

For DEMs and DDUs there are metrics already. For DEMs you need some calculations as metrics are session based , not DEM units based.

Assuming you have management zones set up (or tags at least) per application, then you can put this data on the dashboard (Dashboard classic) and filter it by Management zone or tag in Data Explorer.

Re: Create charts for license consumption per application

Delary — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:00:02 GMT

Hey @Julius_Loman!

Do you know if this is still a valid solution or Dynatrace has introduced any OOB feature for this? I didn't do much research on this, however it would be nice to hear from you.

Thanks!

Re: Create charts for license consumption per application

Julius_Loman — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:36:28 GMT

@Delary, I don't know of any improvements. Basically, all new licensing reporting features are about the (now default) DPS licensing.