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

[Aboud1]

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 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

[sujit_k_singh]

Hi @Aboud1 

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) — DDU per entity 
builtin:billing.ddu.log.byEntity  — 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 - 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