IBM Kubecost

Monitor & reduce Kubernetes spend

You can’t optimize what you can’t see

Unnecessary Kubernetes waste drives up costs, and most companies are surprised when they receive their monthly cloud bill. It shows an aggregate without explaining which workloads and teams are using which resources, how much, and when.

IBM Kubecost provides a comprehensive cost monitoring and optimization solution for teams running Kubernetes that you can install in 5 minutes or less. It helps you take control of your Kubernetes cloud costs to gain real-time cost visibility, optimize spend, and make informed decisions with ease. Eliminate cost surprises and gain visibility into your Kubernetes costs while maintaining top-notch performance.

Get the Kubernetes visibility you need

Untangle your Kubernetes spend once and for all

Understand which teams, products, or resources contributed to your cloud bill. Reconcile costs against your cloud bill so you can showback or chargeback with confidence.

See your Kubernetes costs in real time

Kubecost delivers granular insights into your cloud spend, enabling you to monitor resource usage across clusters, cloud providers, and on-prem environments with a unified view.

Learn where you can take immediate action to optimize

Get dynamic savings recommendations without compromising performance. Tailored insights help you rightsize your resources and enhance efficiency while meeting application requirements.

Eliminate cost overruns

Prevent unnecessary Kubernetes spend with governance features. Set sensible budgets and track performance against them, alerting stakeholders when thresholds are met.

Connecting all levels of the enterprise

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Cost allocation

Kubecost allows you to see allocated spend across all your native Kubernetes concepts, so you can provide your teams with transparent, accurate cost data reconciled with your actual cloud bill. It enables flexible, customizable cost breakdown and resource allocation for accurate showbacks, chargebacks, and ongoing monitoring.

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Unified cost monitoring

See all of your Kubernetes and out-of-cluster spend in one place, with full cloud service billing integration. Join in-cluster costs like CPU and memory with out-of-cluster spend from cloud infrastructure services for complete cost visibility – all services from AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure are supported.

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Optimization insights

Get customized recommendations based on your own environment and behavior patterns. Kubecost automatically generates insights you can use to save 30-50% or more on your infrastructure spend, without exposing your private information—your data never gets shared externally, even with us.

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Alerts and governance

Real-time alerting functionality and recurring reports empower teams to take control of their Kubernetes-enabled infrastructure, stay within budgeted limits, and address monitoring interruptions immediately. Achieve peak application performance and improve reliability with customizable alerts, configurable Availability Tiers, and real-time updates.

Purpose-built for teams running Kubernetes

Kubecost, an IBM Company, began as an open-source project with a goal of giving small engineering teams access to great cost visibility. As a result, our solution is tightly integrated with the open-source cloud native ecosystem, such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Running containers on Kubernetes requires a new approach for visualizing and optimizing spend. Kubecost is designed from the ground up for Kubernetes and the Cloud Native ecosystem.

Foundations
For individuals, small teams, or those that just need a quick snapshot of their current Kubernetes spend and individual cluster usage in a self-hosted deployment.
  • Foundations features:

  • Unlimited clusters up to 250 cores

  • 15-day metric retention

  • Unlimited users

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Enterprise Self-hosted
The self-hosted version of Kubecost provides comprehensive cost monitoring and optimization solution for teams running Kubernetes.
  • All Foundations features, plus:

  • Unified, multi-cluster view

  • Unlimited clusters at any scale

  • Unlimited metric retention

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Enterprise Cloud
Shift the overhead of managing Kubecost to us. Our SaaS solution runs the Kubecost agent locally on your Kubernetes clusters across public cloud and on-prem.
  • All Self-hosted features, plus:

  • Updates and configuration managed by Kubecost

  • Dedicated domain for your team

  • Reduced maintenance and technical overhead

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Advanced Reporting: Attributing Cloud Costs to Kubernetes Applications

Many Kubernetes applications rely on services running outside of the cluster. They may use Amazon RDS as a backing database, an Azure Storage Account to store images, or Google BigQuery to load and analyze large datasets. To get a holistic view of the total cost of running your application, capturing the costs of those cloud-native services is imperative. In this webinar, learn how to associate your cloud-native services with Kubernetes concepts to determine the TCO of your Kubernetes applications using Kubecost.

Already installed Kubecost?

If you've already installed Kubecost, take the next step! Once you have familiarized yourself with Kubecost and integrated with any cloud providers, it's time to move on to more advanced concepts. this documentation provides tips for commonly used product configurations.

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Kubecost for government

Government agencies are modernizing IT at an unprecedented rate, and most technology leaders see Kubernetes as a required foundation of an effective and long-term strategy. Kubecost provides cost management and optimization for a modern development framework.

Welcoming IBM Kubecost to Apptio's Website​

Kubecost joins forces with Apptio, adding real-time Kubernetes cost monitoring alongside IBM Cloudability’s industry-leading FinOps solution.​