📂 DPS Cost Allocation Dashboard V1.2

[Erik_Anderssen]

Dear community members,

Please make sure you have read this documentation, before using the Cost Allocation Dashboard: https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/manage/dynatrace-platform-subscription/cost-allocation

The DPS Cost Allocation dashboard allows you to view your current cost-field enrolment status, along with the usage and expenses associated with each supported capability. Use the top left section to navigate between different capabilities.

The variables in the top middle area enable you to adjust the pricing according to your rate card. 

You can use this Dashboard as a foundation to create your own usage and cost summaries, which can then be shared with your colleagues internally.

If you have any queries or suggestions for improvement, don't hesitate to share them by posting in this group.

[AntonPineiro]

Hi,

Thank you! 

Best regards

[AntonioSousa]

@Erik_Anderssen,
I was not able to upload it. Gave me the error: "Could not map JSON at 'tiles' near line 1 column 1584"

[Erik_Anderssen]

Hey @AntonioSousa!

I'm sorry you had problems with the Dashboard upload. We tested it in different settings and couldn't recreate the issue. I checked with the Dashboard team, but we need to investigate further. Can you contact our Support team to look into this?

[p_devulapalli]

Hi @Erik_Anderssen , I actually see dashboard returning empty results on my side. I was looking at the DQL used and see the  filter set as event.provider == "LIMA_CLIENT" . Looking at the event.provider info on my side I dont see this as a option to filter on . Am I missing something on my side please?

[p_devulapalli]

Ok, I just read your other thread, got some understanding 

https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/DPS-Cost-Allocation/Welcome-to-DPS-Cost-Allocation-What-is-it-Wha...

[Erik_Anderssen]

Hi @p_devulapalli Thanks for bringing this up - i adapted this article to point to the documentation first to make it clearer.

[paolo_fumanelli]

Hi Erik, thanks for sharing. I just tried to upload the dashboard on my tenant but provides actually no result. By digging into DQL I see that all data comes from events kind "BILLING USAGE EVENT" but when executing the DQL below:

fetch dt.system.events
| filter event.kind == "BILLING_USAGE_EVENT"
| summarize count(), by:{event.type}

you can see we have no event type related to host monitoring and in general for the capabilities included in the dashboard.

Do you know if there's anythiing I should activate to produce such events?

thanks
Paolo

[Erik_Anderssen]

Hey @paolo_fumanelli,

Please make sure that you have set the tags for cost allocation (dt.cost.costcenter, dt.cost.product). Here you can find more details: https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/manage/dynatrace-platform-subscription/cost-allocation

Once you have set the tags it might take up to 30 minutes until you can see the first overviews appearing in the dashboard. 

Best regards

Erik

[paolo_fumanelli]

Thanks, I didn't get before that it was mandatory to set cost centers to get these events.

Thanks
Paolo

[Viju111kammar]

Thanks for sharing..!