Perhaps distributed systems traces could be extended to attach energy usage alongside other metadata (like request duration). See also this HN post[1] re: an e

Perhaps distributed systems traces could be extended to attach energy usage alongside other metadata (like request duration). See also this HN post[1] re: an environmental impact reporting dashboard built by the BBC's R&D department. In that example, a system-level resource monitoring agent called 'scaphandre'[2] was used -- I think both are valid approaches (a tracing-based approach would allow discovery and optimization of energy-inefficient requests; a system-level approach provides good fleet-wide energy usage visibility). [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30320147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30320147 [2] - https://github.com/hubblo-org/scaphandre/ https://github.com/hubblo-org/scaphandre/