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

[tracegazer]

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?

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📊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?

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🔧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

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⚠️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

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📥How to Use

1. Import the attached JSON into your Gen3 Dashboards
2. Modify a Text variable called DEM_License and set it to your annual DEM allocation
3. Set the dashboard timeframe to your license period (custom: start date → end date)
4. 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.

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📸Screenshots

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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!

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tracegazer - Observability Specialist - 🇦🇷

[AntonPineiro]

Thank you!!