Kubecost - Monitor & reduce Kubernetes spend

Pros: Adopts standardized tooling for deployment/management ( helm/prometheus/etc. ) Clean and easy to use UI Can start providing value within a very short timeframe of being setup Strong API support for integrating into more bespoke use cases ( as well as existing integrations with the likes of kubelens ) Strong open core base, with great support through slack Cons: Self hosted. Not inherently a con depending on use case but does provide a small degree of management overhead Documentation could use some work Alerting is a little bit limited --- I've been using kubecost for a while now and it's become increasingly relevant as we've been transitioning from startup to scale-up and our priorities around opex have changed. There's two areas where kubecost really excels for our use case: 1. The ability to get insight into where we can make cost optimizations for our kubernetes cluster. Being able to identify where we had a lot of wasted resources, unoptimized instance sizing and limited use of limits/etc. within kubernetes is a big win. Especially with dynamic workloads which can be scaled on demand. 2. An area we're just beginning to explore, which is utilizing kubecost in order to associate costs with internal teams and with customer usage. This is the kind of problem I've had to solve a few times elsewhere, but generally have ended up rolling my own sub-optimal solution. While we haven't ended up fully leveraging this capability yet, the early proof of concepts we've done really show how kubecost can shine for this kind of challenge. Ultimately, for me kubecost excels at bridging the gap between base cloud cost reporting (for infrastructure used ) and extending that through to workload cost management. As kubernetes increasingly becomes a kind of universal compute engine, that gap of data becomes increasingly painful to deal with. So yeah. Very impressed and super excited to see where the product goes in the future.

Hi everyone, Webb here, Co-founder of Kubecost! We first built Kubecost because we saw how early adopters of Kubernetes were struggling with the same challenges we were focused on at Google: balancing cost, performance, and health. The decentralized and dynamic nature of container orchestration was making it harder for Kubernetes users to understand and monitor infrastructure costs alongside performance and reliability metrics—and these same complexities made it significantly harder to optimize across these three areas. Our product is dead simple to install (takes 5 mins or less at kubeost.com/install) and free to use forever on a single cluster. Today we’re managing billions in cloud spend for thousands of teams, and we recently raised a $25m Series A. Staying true to our mission of empowering engineers through access to actionable data and insights, we’re focusing on three key areas to grow our team and help way more users: 1. Expanding our open source contributions (exciting news on this topic soon!) and growing our community 2. Creating a world-class user experience that doesn’t end at in-product interaction—we aim to truly partner with our customers to add real value, no matter where they are on their Kubernetes adoption journey 3. Building new tools, more integrations, and different ways to implement Kubecost to reach an even broader audience of users We love getting feedback from the community and users! Let me know if you have any questions or reach out to us at team@kubecost.com.

A recent Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey identified Kubecost as the #1 independent tool for tracking Kubernetes spend. Stackwatch (the company that built Kubecost) was also recently named one of the “The 10 Hottest Kubernetes Startups Of 2021” by CRN. Survey Surfaces Recent Spike in Kubernetes Costs - https://containerjournal.com/edi... The 10 Hottest Kubernetes Startups Of 2021 (So Far) - https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/... To get started using Kubecost, download the open source project: - https://www.kubecost.com/install... Interested in joining Kubecost? We’ve got tons of roles open across the company: - https://jobs.lever.co/kubecost Check out our blog: - https://blog.kubecost.com/ Contribute to our open source community: - https://github.com/kubecost/docs... Join us on slack: - https://join.slack.com/t/kubecos... If you have questions or need support, email us at team@kubecost.com! We’re always happy to help, listen to feedback, give you a demo, or just talk shop.

Ajay here, co-founder of kubecost and one of the original authors! Just been super excited by the positive response from customers, open source users, and the cloud-native community at large. We remain focused on our vision of providing value on day 1 to devops and finops engineers and on building open models for cost management! Can't wait to share some of the amazing new features we've got on network cost tracking, alerting, and more.