KubeCon 2024 Takeaways

• OpenCost is a neat interface between FINops, Open-Source, and K8 worlds.

• The goal of Opencost is to be agnostic to exported metrics that customers want to monitor

  • The FOCUS specifications agree to ~43 fields that cover most use cases. The UI is tested heavily on these fields

  • There is an option to add external metrics through the interface. This is not well tested but is meant to cover special cases.

• The EndGame for Opencost is to become the “Cost Usage Report” for the internet

  • You can visualize cloud providers as well as allocation costs from Databases in one single glass pane.

• OpenCosts Runs tests on “AMD”, “MacOS” and “ARM” nodes.

  • It is an active decision to not ship the plugins because of their size. We are currently trying to build the ecosystem with more plugins. $1000 for a new plugin, only for the first 10.

• There is a filter option in the dashboard for costs

  • billed and list types

• The data is stored in a 7-day rolling window. The resolution of queries is 1 minute.

Matt Roy’s Expectations

• Take it to the CNCF-Incubation stage from CNCF-Sandbox stage.

  • More anecdotes from customers

  • More developers outside of KubeCost. Right now we have Randolia and Grafana Labs. (4/75 developers)

• More requests for OpenTelemetry integration