OpenCost

Open source container cost monitoring.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Integrates with AWS, GCP, and Azure to provide real time cost reporting and analysis. Provides a kubectl plugin to allow querying of cost data. Export pricing data to Prometheus to build into your queries/dashboards. Integrates with k8s to provide allocation by workloads, containers, etc. Override pricing data e.g. for on-prem deploys, or use cloud pricing APIs. Open source.

Tradeoffs

Requires a complex setup - you already need to be running k8s and Prometheus. There are multiple open GitHub issues related to Azure, so these are worth reviewing if you want to deploy there.

Is OpenCost a fit?

Based on Console’s review published on 2023-07-13. Summary updated .

Who it’s for

Developers using Kubernetes and cloud services should consider OpenCost

Why consider it

OpenCost provides real-time cost reporting and analysis

Keep in mind

OpenCost requires a complex setup with existing Kubernetes and Prometheus infrastructure

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