Help with power consumtion measurements

Good day Community,
I'm new to the world of arduino.
My plan is to measure the power consumtion on my Simens PLC.
I would equipt the Arduino with an additional board or sensor.
The Arduino would be hung between the transformer and the Simens PLC.
The measuring range is around 0.1 Amps and 10 Amps DC.
I will connect the Arduino with Profinet in my local system.
My Goal is to send every 0.5 seconds the Data to my Database.
Is this realistic or way to much for the Arduino ?
Can you recommend me any board or sensor to help with the project ?

Thank you very much in advance!

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Google "arduino current sensor". Quite a few hits, seems like they are all hall type sensors, which I have no experience with personally. But I'm sure they will work just fine. I would get a 15-20amp sensor, so that you have a margin for error.

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