Kubecost provides real-time, cloud-agnostic cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes, helping you continuously reduce your infrastructure costs. Install for free in 5 minutes or less at https://www.kubecost.com/install.
Monitor & reduce Kubernetes spend
Kubecost provides real-time, cloud-agnostic cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes, helping you continuously reduce your infrastructure costs. Install for free in 5 minutes or less at https://www.kubecost.com/install.
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
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
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.
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/editorial-calendar/container-kubernetes-management/survey-surfaces-recent-spike-in-kubernetes-costs/ The 10 Hottest Kubernetes Startups Of 2021 (So Far)
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