📌 TIP#3: DEM License Consumption Dashboard for Classic Licensing — Gen3 Dashboards + Code Tiles

tracegazer — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:13:11 GMT

Better late than never! 😄

I've been wanting to leverage the power of Code tiles in the new Gen3 Dashboards to build a proper DEM license consumption dashboard for quite some time. The native Account Management view is useful, but it's limited — no drill-down by component, no breakdown by application, no way to share it with non-admin users, and no customization.

So I finally sat down and built one from scratch. This dashboard gives you a complete, at-a-glance view of your Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) consumption under Classic Licensing.

It's designed to answer the questions that matter:

How much of my DEM license have I consumed?
At this rate, will I exceed my allocation before the contract ends?
Which applications and synthetic monitors are driving the most cost?
Where can I optimize?

📊What's Included

KPI Bar (top of dashboard)

Total DEM Consumed — absolute number for the license period
Consumption % — with threshold coloring (🟢 < 70% | 🟡 < 90% | 🔴 >= 90%)
Remaining — DEM units left in your allocation
Projected End-of-Period — linear forecast based on last 30 days (same approach as Account Management)
Estimated Days Until License Exhaustion
Daily Average DEM
Total Billed Sessions (raw count, all app types)
Total Synthetic Executions (raw count)

Cumulative DEM Chart

Actual consumption line from license start date
Linear forecast line projected to end of contract (based on last 30 days average)
License limit as a horizontal reference line
Visually shows if you're on track to exceed your allocation

Daily DEM Consumption

Per-day bar chart to spot spikes, anomalies, and trends

DEM by Category

Stacked bar + pie chart: Web Sessions vs. Mobile/Custom vs. Synthetic
Executive summary view — which category dominates your spend?

Detail Breakdowns (stacked bar + pie for each)

Web Sessions: sessions without replay, with replay, user action properties
Mobile & Custom: mobile sessions, replay, properties, custom app sessions
Synthetic: browser actions, HTTP monitor requests, external monitors

Top Consumers

Top 10 Applications by DEM — Web + Mobile + Custom combined, with breakdown into sessions, replay, and properties
Top 10 Applications by Replay Ratio — sorted by Total DEM to identify optimization candidates (high cost + high replay % = best target)
Top 10 Synthetic Monitors — browser and HTTP monitors combined in a single ranked view
Top 10 Components by DEM — which billable component type consumes the most?

🔧How It Works

Every tile uses Code tiles with the @dynatrace-sdk/client-classic-environment-v2 SDK, querying builtin:billing.* metrics via metricsClient. No DQL, no Grail dependency — works on any environment with classic licensing.

Key technical details:

DEM unit weights are applied in code (0.25 per session, 1.00 per replay session, 0.01 per property, 1.00 per synthetic action, 0.10 per HTTP/external request)
Forecast uses the last 30 days daily average, matching Dynatrace Account Management's linear forecast model
Dashboard timeframe should be set to your full license period (from = contract start, to = contract end)
A $DEM_License text variable lets you set your annual allocation for threshold calculations
Resolution is hardcoded to "1d" for all calculation tiles to ensure mathematical accuracy

⚠️Important Notes

Adjust DEM weights to match your contract — rates may vary per agreement
builtin:billing metrics are trailing indicators reported at ~15-minute intervals, so the most recent data point may be incomplete
For official billing data, always refer to Account Management > License / Subscription > Overview
Sanitize the JSON before sharing — remove any client-specific application names or tenant URLs

📥How to Use

Import the attached JSON into your Gen3 Dashboards
Modify a Text variable called DEM_License and set it to your annual DEM allocation
Set the dashboard timeframe to your license period (custom: start date → end date)
Review and accept the code tiles when prompted

The dashboard is fully self-contained — no external dependencies, no extensions, no additional configuration beyond the variable.

📸Screenshots

I hope this helps others who have been looking for a way to track DEM consumption beyond what Account Management offers. If you have ideas for improvements or want to see a DDU version, let me know in the comments!

tracegazer - Observability Specialist - 🇦🇷

Re: 📌 TIP#3: DEM License Consumption Dashboard for Classic Licensing — Gen3 Dashboards + Code Tiles

AntonPineiro — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:31:57 GMT

Thank you!!

topic Re: 📌 TIP#3: DEM License Consumption Dashboard for Classic Licensing — Gen3 Dashboards + Code Tiles in Dynatrace tips