When running Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), it can be hard to understand and allocate costs in environments with multiple teams, projects, or even departments. With Kubecost, you gain full transparency into your Kubernetes usage and cost within minutes of installation. Officially launched in 2019 and built on open source, Kubecost…

If you’re terminal-loving engineers using Kubernetes like us, kubectl is your constant companion. That’s why the Kubecost team built a new CLI for interacting with Kubernetes cost data. Today, we’re announcing kubectl cost, an open-source extension that fits directly into your workflow. Here’s an example of it in action: For…

In late 2019, we launched the Kubecost open source project to help give engineers visibility into spend and resource efficiency in Kubernetes environments. Today, we’re incredibly proud to announce that we have built an amazing team, formed a company around Kubecost, and raised $5.5 …

Kubecost now provides more than one thousand teams with visibility into their Kubernetes cost, efficiency, and resource consumption. Yet many teams, including our own, still spend considerable sums on cloud resources that aren’t visible from within a cluster. For that reason, we’re excited to announce a set of new features…

At Kubecost, we help teams monitor and manage Kubernetes spend. Teams commonly implement their first Kubernetes chargeback or showback solution with our software, and we frequently get asked questions about how to make this process go as smoothly as possible. …

Background It’s been six months since we started helping teams optimize their Kubernetes infrastructure. During this time, we have started every new client relationship by helping their team gain clear visibility into their resource and spend allocation. Last year, we wrote an early post on using Grafana and Prometheus to accomplish…

(This is part 2 of a series about cost monitoring and cost management for Kubernetes. In our first article, we talked about getting visibility into your infrastructure spend with Grafana & Prometheus.) We’ve worked with dozens of teams to optimize their Kubernetes spend over the past year… we always start…

(April 2019 Update: we have now launched the Kubecost project to provide more accurate cost monitoring & allocation for Kubernetes. Learn more here.) We first discovered Kubernetes while working at Google in 2014. Our initial view was heavily shaped by our experience launching projects on the internal Borg system. We…