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Analyze energy consumption and carbon emissions in hybrid cloud infrastructure

Dynatrace

For Carbon Impact, these business events come from an automation workflow that translates host utilization metrics into energy consumption in watt hours (Wh) and into greenhouse gas emissions in carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). Energy consumption is then translated to CO2e based on host geolocation.

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Dynatrace Cost & Carbon Optimization certified for accuracy and transparency

Dynatrace

The explosion of AI models shines a new spotlight on the issue, with a recent study showing that using AI to generate an image takes as much energy as a full smartphone charge. Actions resulting from the evaluation The certification process surfaced a few recommendations for improving the app.

Energy 223
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Energy Efficient Distributed Systems

DZone

Energy efficiency has become a paramount concern in the design and operation of distributed systems due to the increasing demand for sustainable and environmentally friendly computing solutions.

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Leveraging Observability Techniques for Energy Efficiency Optimization in Data Centers

DZone

Data centers play a critical role in the digital era, as they provide the necessary infrastructure for processing, storing, and managing vast amounts of data required to support modern applications and services. Therefore, achieving energy efficiency in data centers has become a priority for organizations across various industries.

Energy 189
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Sustainability: Thoughts from a software engineer

Dynatrace

Collect metrics on energy consumption or derive them from existing signals. For instance, Dynatrace has developed the Cost and Carbon Optimization app, a tool designed to measure, understand, and act on the energy consumption and carbon emissions generated by hybrid and multicloud infrastructures.

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KubeCon EU 2025 retrospective: Reflections from my sixth KubeCon

Dynatrace

KubeCon is a massive conference, full of energy, great talks, and great friends, and my fellow Dynatracers and I couldnt wait to get started. OpenTelemetry provides us with a standard for generating, collecting, and emitting telemetry, and we have existing tooling that leverages OTel data to help us understand work processes and workflows.

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Sustainable IT: Optimize your hybrid-cloud carbon footprint

Dynatrace

If you’re running your own data center, you can start powering it with green energy purchased through your utility company. The complication with this approach is that your energy bill will likely increase. Next, we consider possible energy savings in the data center. So you’ll have to look elsewhere for energy savings!”

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