Is the energy consumption of a droplet measurable?

Posted October 1, 2020
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Underlying question would be: How to measure the consumed energy of a website or webapplication? (in this case the backend)

Tools? Tips? Any help would be much appreciated.

nathanwaelkens

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Sri Charan Madhavapeddi • October 11, 2020

Hello,

We at DigitalOcean, doesn’t have the right metric or tool to measure this. Came across a few articles online, not sure, if these are what you are looking for:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270817803_Measuring_Energy_Consumption_for_Web_Service_Product_Configuration https://greenspector.com/en/power-test-cloud-how-to-measure-the-energy-consumption-of-a-web-or-mobile-app-when-youre-not-an-expert/ https://www.wholegraindigital.com/blog/website-energy-efficiency/

Hope this helps!

Cheers, Sri Charan

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