Server Underutilization via Wattage Analysis

The Dynatrace Cost & Carbon Optimization application primarily aims to help organizations
understand and reduce the carbon footprint of their IT infrastructure, translating utilization
metrics into CO2 equivalents (CO2e).1 While supporting sustainability goals is a critical
endeavor, the underlying energy consumption data reported by the application—specifically
wattage and energy metrics for components like CPU, Storage IO, Network, and
Memory—offers a valuable secondary benefit. This report focuses on harnessing this energy
data, not for its carbon implications, but as a proxy for server activity levels [User Query].
The objective of this report is to provide a practical, data-driven methodology for analyzing
these energy metrics within Dynatrace, correlating them with core performance data. The
goal is to identify servers that exhibit consistently low activity profiles, marking them as
potential candidates for decommissioning or for a reduction in their monitoring scope within
Dynatrace, thereby optimizing infrastructure efficiency and potentially reducing costs.