Are DDU quotas tied to host unit consumption?

DDU quotas, or Dynatrace Data Units, are designed to provide a measure of resource consumption within your Dynatrace environment. They are not tied to host unit consumption, meaning that the quotas are independent of how many hosts you have or the type of those hosts, whether physical or virtual.

This independent structure allows organizations to manage their monitoring resources more flexibly, ensuring that they can scale their observability solutions based on the data they need to monitor rather than being restricted by the number of hosts they operate. This is critical for organizations with dynamic environments, where the number and configuration of hosts can change frequently.

The distinction between physical and virtual hosts does not affect the DDU quotas, as these quotas are concerned with the amount of data processed and stored by Dynatrace rather than the underlying infrastructure itself. Therefore, a deeper understanding of how DDU quotas function allows teams to optimize their Dynatrace usage effectively without worrying about their host consumption metrics.