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title: "Monitor energy use | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "View energy usage for workloads, namespaces, Clusters, Nodes, Pods, and containers on the Energy tab in Kubernetes Monitoring."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Monitor energy use

On any detail page, click the **Energy** tab to view the energy usage of:

- Workloads and namespaces
- Clusters
- Nodes
- Pods
- Containers

[Energy usage for workloads in a namespace for 24 hours](/media/docs/grafana-cloud/k8s/energy-for-namespace.png)

When you [configure Kubernetes Monitoring](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/kubernetes-monitoring/configuration/helm-chart-config/hc-config-steps/#monitoring-type) to gather energy metrics, [Kepler](https://sustainable-computing.io/) exposes and gathers metrics, and Alloy collects these metrics.

Energy metrics are separated into these categories:

- Package, [including CPU cores](https://github.com/sustainable-computing-io/kepler/blob/main/docs/user/metrics.md)
- DRAM (memory)
- GPU
- Other
- Total (the sum of all categories)