Exploring OpenCost

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
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