How to measure it?

To start this hands-on chapter, here is a new building block of eco-design: measurements.

Indeed, how can we be sure we are reducing our service's negative impacts on the environment without knowing where we're starting from?

Tool categories

In IT, several kinds of measurement tools are already in use, for example:

• analytics tools to measure the usage of the service
• monitoring tools to measure the resources used in real time
• benchmarking tools for code performance