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.

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