# How to calculate total Data Ingestion (Traces, Metrics, Logs) in Gigabytes per Host?

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-calculate-total-data-ingestion-traces-metrics-logs-in-gigabytes-per-host/55993>\
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**Created:** [May 24, 2026, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-calculate-total-data-ingestion-traces-metrics-logs-in-gigabytes-per-host/55993 "2026-05-24T15:02:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aboud1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@Aboud1](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/Aboud1)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-calculate-total-data-ingestion-traces-metrics-logs-in-gigabytes-per-host/55993/1 "2026-05-24T15:02:56Z")

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Hi Everyone,

I’m currently working on a capacity planning and architectural review for our **Dynatrace Managed** environment.

We need to calculate the **actual volume of data ingested in Gigabytes (GB) per host (on average per month)**, rather than looking at it from a DDU consumption perspective. Specifically, I want to find a way to aggregate:

- **APM / Tracing data volume** (Code-level insights, spans, etc.)
- **Log Ingestion volume** per host
- **Infrastructure metrics volume**

Since many built-in screens focus primarily on DDU billing units or Host Units (HU), it’s a bit tricky to extract the raw volumetric data (GBs) per agent/host.

Has anyone built a **Dashboard** , or written a specific USQL&nbsp;or classical metric expression that breaks down the raw ingestion traffic (in GBs) per Host?

Any tips, dashboard JSONs, or queries would be highly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Muhammed Aboud

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**Author:** ![sujit\_k\_singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@sujit\_k\_singh](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/sujit_k_singh)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2026, 11:08am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/how-to-calculate-total-data-ingestion-traces-metrics-logs-in-gigabytes-per-host/55993/2 "2026-05-25T11:08:14Z")

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Hi&nbsp;[@Aboud1](https://community.dynatrace.com/user/90253)

Extracting raw volumetric data (in GBs) per host in Dynatrace Managed is indeed tricky since the built-in UI focuses primarily on DDU/HU billing units. Here’s how you can approach this for capacity planning:

In Dynatrace Managed, extracting raw GB per host is tricky since the UI focuses on DDUs/HUs. Here are the key approaches:

1. CMC — Your best option on Managed:

CMC → Cluster → Storage shows actual disk consumption per environment broken down by data type (metrics, traces, logs, events)  
Divide by host count for average per-host volume  
2. Useful built-in metrics for a dashboard:

builtin:billing.ddu.metrics.byEntity (split by dt.entity.host)&nbsp;— DDU per entity&nbsp;  
builtin:billing.ddu.log.byEntity&nbsp;&nbsp;— Log DDU per entity  
3. Log volume is the easiest — directly visible in GB under Settings → Usage → Log Management & Analytics

4. Trace volume — Check Adaptive Traffic Management settings; trace ingest rate is tied to GiB-hours of connected host memory.

5. OneAgent network traffic as a proxy:

builtin:tech.generic.network.bytesTransmitted -&nbsp;Network bytes from OneAgent

The CMC storage view is really your best friend here for Managed — it gives raw disk-level consumption that maps directly to GBs.

Thanks,

Sujit