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Monitor energy use
On any detail page, click the Energy tab to view the energy usage of:
- Workloads and namespaces
- Clusters
- Nodes
- Pods
- Containers

When you configure Kubernetes Monitoring to gather energy metrics, Kepler exposes and gathers metrics, and Alloy collects these metrics.
Energy metrics are separated into these categories:
- Package, including CPU cores
- DRAM (memory)
- GPU
- Other
- Total (the sum of all categories)
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