Bertrand, CEO @ Sentry Software

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(I just realized I hadn't introduced myself properly here!)

I'm Bertrand Martin, CEO, co-founder, developer, etc. at Sentry Software. My company focuses on data center observability, tracking hardware issues from temperatures🤒 to disk crashes💥, to dead power supplies🔥, to disconnected network cables, etc.

At Sentry, we've been discussing datacenter energy consumption reporting since 2008 (Green IT was already a thing at the time!). A couple years ago, we decided to embrace open standards like OpenTelemetry, to expose power, energy, and temperature metrics in an open standard way, so that anyone and anything can consume these data. So you'll find me and my team discussing these topics in various places, like Grafana, Datadog, TechCrunch, etc.

I recently tried to propose a new standard RFC for an HTTP header so that Web services could expose their energy consumption and carbon emissions. Unfortunately, that discussion lead to nowhere 😢. I'm also trying to define semantic conventions for sustainability metrics in OpenTelemetry, but even though a majority of developers seem to be willing to implement sustainability standards, such discussions are always complicated.

Now that's my goal with the Green Software Foundation: get some help and backup in these discussions, and define proper standards around sustainability so that we save ourselves the hassle of having 10 vendors offering 10 slight variations of the same feature, in closed and totally incompatible environments! 😅