Company
Date Published
Author
Isidre Royo Bonnin, Klaus Enzenhofer, Alistair Emslie
Word count
1632
Language
American English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Carbon Impact is a specialized application developed using Dynatrace AppEngine to help organizations assess and manage the carbon emissions produced by their IT infrastructures, including hardware and software instances. The app offers a unified interface for measuring energy consumption and carbon emissions, utilizing host utilization metrics and translating them into energy use and CO2e emissions based on geolocation, acknowledging the varied environmental impacts of different energy sources. It provides key insights and optimization recommendations for underutilized or idle systems, aiming to reduce the carbon footprint across hybrid and multicloud environments. Users can engage in ad-hoc analytics using Dynatrace Query Language (DQL) to explore and analyze data, supporting optimization efforts by establishing baselines and measuring progress toward sustainability goals. The app's methodologies are influenced by the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance and the open-source Cloud Carbon Footprint project, offering a streamlined approach for organizations looking to integrate energy efficiency into their IT operations. By facilitating detailed analysis at the data center, host, and process levels, Carbon Impact empowers organizations to prioritize and implement green coding practices, thus aligning sustainability efforts with application performance management best practices.