Proposal For A Realtime Carbon Footprint Standard
Adrian Cockcroft, April 3rd, 2023
The existing approaches to carbon measurement provide delayed data for carbon accounting that is more akin to billing information in the way it is structured and queried.
This proposal seeks to define a standard for real-time carbon and energy data as time-series data that would be accessed alongside and synchronized with the existing throughput, utilization and latency metrics that are provided for the components and applications in computing environments.
This would open up opportunities to leverage existing performance monitoring tools and dashboards, extend optimization tools like autoscalers and schedulers, and to build new kinds of carbon analysis and optimization tools and services.