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.
The Leader's Guide to Kubernetes Cost Optimization
Most Kubernetes waste hides in plain sight — inside over-requested workloads and shared cluster resources. Platform and cloud leaders discover significant gaps between requested and actual resource usage only after cluster spend rises or reliability risk appears. Optimization is possible, but done blindly it can introduce performance and delivery risk.
Learn more about why Kubernetes cost inefficiency happens and how leading organizations improve visibility, accountability, and efficiency without slowing engineering teams.
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.