How can I vizualize the host consumption per host?

[soportetr]

Hi everyone,

I would like to know where I can visualize how many host units each host consumes. In the previous account management design I had that option and I could export that data, but with the new design I can't find that section.

Thanks in advance

[dannemca · Accepted solution]

I use this formula in Data Explorer to show the amount of HU by host by hour:
(builtin:billing.ddu.includedMetricPerHost:splitBy("dt.entity.host"):avg:auto:sort(value(avg,descending)):limit(100))/(1000)

Try and let us know.

[soportetr]

Hi @dannemca 

Thank you for your response. This formula will be very helpful. I just need to adjust it to show me the exact amount of host unit per host.

[dannemca]

If you set your timeframe to last 1h, you will see the exactly amount of HU by host. At least the ones with fullstack.

[Theodore_x86]

Can you please explain how this formula produces the HU per host?

[dannemca]

I don't know exactly, I just got the formula from the demo.live.dynatrace.com dashboard list and tested on my own env, and the numbers just matched.

[Theodore_x86]

Yeah, me too. It seems strange. It is a DDU metric and after a few divisions it concludes to the HU consumption. DT magic! 😛

[Ahmed_Khaled · Accepted solution]

My team and I took the original formula and we edited it a bit to get the consumption for Full stack and for Infra only as well

Fullstack: (builtin:billing.ddu.includedMetricPerHost:filter(and(or(in("dt.entity.host",entitySelector("type(host),monitoringMode(~"FULL_STACK~")"))))):splitBy("dt.entity.host"):avg:auto:sort(value(avg,descending)):limit(200))/(1000)/(61)

Infra only: (builtin:billing.ddu.includedMetricPerHost:filter(and(or(in("dt.entity.host",entitySelector("type(host),monitoringMode(~"CLOUD_INFRA~")"))))):splitBy("dt.entity.host"):avg:auto:sort(value(avg,descending)):limit(100))/(1000)/(80)

[Viachaslau]

The simplest way get info via API and parse into CSV
maybe with new dashboard we can do it inside dyna, since external call possible to attach...

"""https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/dynatrace-api/environment-api/oneagent-on-host"""
"""https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/improved-supportability-of-dynatrace-oneagent/"""

[Kenny_Gillette · Accepted solution]

Licensing dashboard at BizOps, which also gives other metrics like DEM and DDUs

https://dynatrace.github.io/BizOpsConfigurator/#deploy/all/Licensing%20Overview

[Viachaslau]

Yeah, this is great - just imported 
https://github.com/TechShady/Dynatrace-Dashboards/blob/master/Licensing%20Overview.json
all works OOB

[HJ]

Dynatrace runs a script that populates the billing hostunit ddu metric every 15 minutes. And only gives a grand total.. I am no expert in Dataexplorer and not a big fan of manually entered entitySelector based queries, since they are not selectable in the dropdown list and all manually entered text is prone to errors. 

So I decided to run a scheduled script to query the api and fetch the hostunit count for all hosts and I store the HostUnit count as a custom metric 'HostUnits' on those hosts 😬

We now have a nice way to slice and dice HU consumption from the Data Explorer ui. I can Split on hosts, filter on tags, management zones, hostgroups and some history..

This is a workaround of course.

It would be so nice if HU consumption was just made available as queryable host metadata, metric or property readily available in data explorer dropdown UI.