Cloud Cost Solutions¶
Open-source solutions for monitoring and analyzing cloud costs in Kubernetes environments.
OpenCost¶
OpenCost is a vendor-neutral open-source project for measuring and allocating infrastructure and container costs in real-time. It's a CNCF Incubating project that provides cost visibility for Kubernetes workloads.
- GitHub Stars: 6.1k
- Contributors: 140
- Company Behind: Originally developed by Kubecost (Stackwatch Inc.), now owned by IBM (since September 2024)
- CNCF Status: Incubating (accepted as Sandbox in June 2022, promoted to Incubating in October 2024)
- CNCF Member: IBM is a founding member of CNCF (2015)
- Contributing Organizations: Kubecost, RedHat, AWS, Adobe, SUSE, Armory, Google Cloud, Pixie, Mindcurv, D2IQ, New Relic
OpenCost References¶
Kubecost¶
Kubecost provides real-time cost visibility and insights for Kubernetes clusters. While it offers commercial enterprise features, the core product (formerly known as Kubecost Free) is available as open-source and provides comprehensive cost monitoring capabilities.
- GitHub Stars: 577
- Contributors: 150+
- Company Behind: Kubecost (Stackwatch Inc.), acquired by IBM in September 2024
- CNCF Relation: Not a CNCF project (commercial product), but created and donated OpenCost to CNCF
- CNCF Member: Kubecost was a CNCF member; now part of IBM (CNCF founding member)
Kubecost References¶
Grafana Cloud Cost Exporter¶
Grafana Cloud Cost Exporter is an open-source Prometheus exporter that collects cloud provider cost metrics and makes them available for visualization in Grafana dashboards. It focuses on exporting billing data as Prometheus metrics rather than providing a complete cost allocation platform.
- GitHub Stars: 102
- Contributors: 18+
- Company Behind: Grafana Labs
- CNCF Relation: Not a CNCF project, but Grafana Labs contributes to OpenCost and other CNCF projects
- CNCF Member: Grafana Labs is a CNCF Platinum member (upgraded from Silver in July 2021)