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title: Track the carbon footprint of your on-prem infrastructure with the Hardware Sentry integration
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/whats-new/2024/02/whats-new-02-27-hardware-sentry-integration
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[Hardware Sentry](https://www.sentrysoftware.com/products/hardware-sentry.html) is Sentry Software's native OpenTelemetry solution that offers granular visibility into the health, power consumption, electricity costs, and CO2 emissions of on-prem IT infrastructure.

Now, you can use the Hardware Sentry quickstart to track sustainability metrics along with performance and health metrics for your on-prem hosts in a pre-built New Relic dashboard. In addition, by monitoring the energy usage of your hosts to quantify Watt-hours, dollar cost, and CO2 emissions, this integration helps you understand the financial and ecological footprint of your infrastructure.

With this new integration, you can:

-   **Monitor complex and heterogeneous IT infrastructures:** Monitor processors, memory modules, disks, network cards, and more to streamline on-premise IT infrastructure diagnosis and troubleshooting processes.
-   **Analyze energy consumption:** Effortlessly assess energy efficiency across multiple data centers using daily, monthly, or yearly power consumption metrics, without the need for costly smart power distribution units.
-   **Improve environmental transparency:** Monitor, assess, and report on CO2 emissions tied to data center energy consumption, enhancing visibility on organizations' environmental impact.
-   **Optimize cooling expenses:** Identify ideal data center temperature configurations to safely and efficiently reduce cooling costs.

![Image showing Hardware Sentry quickstart dashboard for New Relic.](https://docs.newrelic.com/images/hardware_sentry_quickstart.webp "Image showing Hardware Sentry quickstart dashboard for New Relic.")

The integration also includes built-in alerts to stay on top of changes to important indicators like battery charge, devices in failing or warning states, non-responsive hosts, low disk endurance utilization and more.

### Next Steps

-   Install the [Hardware Sentry quickstart](https://newrelic.com/instant-observability/hardware-sentry) from New Relic Instant Observability
-   Read the [documentation](https://www.sentrysoftware.com/docs/hws-doc/latest/integration/newrelic.html)
-   Read the [Sentry Software blog](https://www.sentrysoftware.com/blog/2024-02-20/sentry-software-joins-forces-with-new-relic-for-instant-observability.html)