What are the best practices to optimize the license consumption in dynatrace

[gargigharat]

Hi Team,

I am looking for any best practices in Dynatrace to optimize the license consumption, when you follow DPS model.

Regards,

Gargi Gharat

[radek_jasinski · Accepted solution]

What I can suggest to you is to pay attention to:
- how many custom metrics (data points) you have added and whether you really need all of them
- how you have cockpits built and data ranges allocated to them, refreshes, etc.
- whether you need 24/7 monitoring on test environments. I suggest running monitoring only when tests are executed (you can automate this via API)
- pay attention to the consumption of custom events (you can easily go crazy with the consumption of a large number of licences)

You can find a lot of information here:

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/manage/subscriptions-and-licensing/dynatrace-platform-subscri...