DPS Cost Allocation v1.3

[Sophie_Mayerw]

Hi dear community,

We do have a new version of our DPS Cost Allocation Dashboard. 

Friendly reminder: Before this dashboard shows you any information, you must set up DPS Cost Allocation. The documentation can be found here: https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/manage/dynatrace-platform-subscription/cost-allocation

If data is missing, please check:

1. OneAgent version (min. 1.291)

2. OneAgent restart

3. Configuration of Allow List

You can also find a step-by-step checklist in our documentation:

https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/manage/dynatrace-platform-subscription/cost-allocation#host-monitori...

[DanielS]

Great Work!!!

[sqnocopsguy]

greetings - we are missing data in the dashboard. cost center/product fields all show as unassigned. 

• we imported the DPS Cost Allocation - Usage & Costs v1.3.
• we have configured the allowlist via Account Management UI as suggested, but found that on the usage/cost area, the Cost center and Product all show as unassigned.
• this was completed several weeks ago
• to troubleshoot:
  • confirmed OneAgent version 1.309 on hosts
  • we followed the guidance to compare the Cost Allocation tags on the host with the Cost Allocation allowlist.
  • we confirmed that the tag name is correct, and the tag value is included in the Cost Center or Product allowlist.
  • later, we restarted the OneAgents on these hosts. 
  • still, several days after agent restarts, the data is missing for Cost Allocations. 

[scardignos]

The documentation provides two methods (command line or UI) for applying tag values to the host.    Which did you choose?

[sqnocopsguy]

UI (manually applied tags)

[Sophie_Mayerw · Accepted solution]

Please check the OneAgent configuration to ensure the tags have not been applied via UI onto the host but onto the OneAgent configuration as mentioned here: https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/cost-allocation#oneagent-configuration-assign-cost-centers...

If the tag has been applied onto the Host on the UI: Please remove the tag there and add it to the OneAgent configuration via Deployment status or CLI

[ian_molyneaux1]

Hi,  looks great  - just wanted to confirm - if a client has cost-center spread across multiple tenants can we provide a consolidated multi-tenant analysis or is that a future enhancement?  Kr Ian

[Sophie_Mayerw]

Hi Ian!
Dynatrace does not currently provide a consolidated multi-tenant view for cost allocation cost-center data directly within the platform. However, you can retrieve and consolidate this data externally using the following methods:

1. Account Management API: Use the Account Management API to extract cost allocation data from each tenant and consolidate it externally.
2. CSV Export: Export cost allocation data from each tenant via the Account Management web UI and combine the CSV files in an external reporting tool.

For further details, please refer to the Account Management API documentation and the Cost Allocation guide.

We're aware of the need for a UI within Account Management, but it's not yet on our roadmap. 

BR,
Sophie

[Malaik]

hello

In Managed,

Im not able to find the cost allocation menu.

[Sophie_Mayerw]

Hi Malaik,
DPS Cost Allocation is a SaaS only feature. That's why it's not visible in the menu for Managed Accounts. 

[CTull]

Great work Sophie, 

I was wondering if you can or find time to add in functionality for being able to determine costs and add variables for extensions.  Those have a means for cost center and product but are not based on full\infra\discovery.  Example is from the IBM MQ monitoring extension.

Here is a query we found that gives me close to what I need but would love to be able to isolate extensions themselves.

Query example:

dsfm:server.metrics.ingest.external_datapoints:filter(and(or(in("dt.entity.extensions:extension",entitySelector("type(extensions:extension),entityName.equals(~"com.dynatrace.extension.ibm-mq~")"))))):splitBy():sort(value(auto,descending))*97.5/100000000

[Sophie_Mayerw]

Thank you @CTull 

There is already a way to set the Cost Allocation attributes per extension.
Combined with having Logs & Traces Ingest & Retain available in CQ3 this should do the trick.

I'm working on getting a timeline for Metrics & Events as well. Then all costs which can emerge from an extension can be covered. Feel free to already configure all your extensions and ensure to have all values added to the Cost Allocation Allow List. If you set it up now it will magically start to work as soon as the feature is out 🙂 

What do you say? Will this fulfill your needs?

[Chayaphot]

This is really great.

But I would like to ask you something more.

• Right now we can only monitor some capabilities, right? Is there a way to make them all visible?
• Any idea why it only shows up to a short time ago? I tried using the 365 day timeframe but it doesn't show the date I want. Is this because of 'makeTimeseries' or something else?
  

Best regards,

Chayaphot

[Sophie_Mayerw]

Hi @Chayaphot,

Currently DPS Cost Allocation does only support the shown capabilities.
As soon as more capabilities are supported, we will provide a new dashboard to match all supported capabilities.

To your question about the timeframe: I assume the timeframe matches when you started configuring DPS Cost Allocation. In order to get values generated you need to setup:

1. DPS Cost Allocation Allow List
2. One Agent configuration to include dt.cost.costcenter / dt.cost.product

Since this feature has only been available since October '24, there can't be 365 days of data yet.

HTH,

Sophie

[Chayaphot]

Hi @Sophie_Mayerw  Thank you for your reply.

It is understandable that we can only show this much capability at this time.

But for the timeframe, I actually don't do Cost Allocation on the Management page. I adjust it by separating it by MZ (as requested by the client).

Now I think it's not related to the Cost Allocation configuration, but maybe it's related to the DQL script or other limitation.

Not sure if anyone else has had the same issue as I tried using the dashboard in the demo tenant (guu84124) and it only showed data up to December.

Best regards,

Chayaphot

[Sophie_Mayerw]

OK, I see - this dashboard is built on top of Cost Allocation data. It doesn't use management zones or anything else. Since management zones will no longer be supported, I highly recommend starting a transition process to another data basis. 

[Chayaphot]

Actually, it works well with MZ, but you have to modify the DQL a lot. As mentioned, the problem I encountered was that the data could not be viewed as it should be (even after importing without any modification), and this is a problem that customers have mentioned in many places that use this dashboard.
You can see this image for example.

Best regards,

Chayaphot