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
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.
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.
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.
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 features:
Unlimited clusters up to 250 cores
15-day metric retention
Unlimited users
EKS, AKS, GKE, on-prem, and more
Reconciliation with your CSP bill for price accuracy
Cost optimization insights and automation
Community support
All Foundations features, plus:
Unified, multi-cluster view
Unlimited clusters at any scale
Unlimited metric retention
Support for custom pricing
Role-based Access Control
Enterprise integrations
Dedicated support and professional services
All Self-hosted features, plus:
Updates and configuration managed by Kubecost
Dedicated domain for your team
Reduced maintenance and technical overhead
Kubecost-managed High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Bring your own identity provider
Automated scaling and resource management
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.