Kubernetes cost report

Kubernetes, a container orchestration platform, simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications.

Managing Kubernetes costs is essential for maintaining financial control while ensuring optimal resource utilization. However, for a multi-cloud environment, the process can be complex due to the dynamic nature of containerized workloads and the varying pricing models of different cloud providers.

ManageEngine CloudSpend is a comprehensive solution that provides unified visibility, detailed reporting, and actionable insights in a multi-cloud environment that manages your Kubernetes costs effectively.

What is Kubernetes cost management?

Kubernetes cost management is the process of tracking, analyzing, and optimizing the expenses associated with running Kubernetes clusters, nodes, or pods across different cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. In a multi-cloud environment, organizations often deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters on multiple platforms to leverage the unique benefits each cloud provider offers, such as cost efficiency, scalability, and availability.

But it can be complex to manage Kubernetes costs across multiple cloud providers with varying pricing models and resource offerings. Effective Kubernetes cost management involves:

  • Accurately attributing cloud costs to specific Kubernetes resources, such as namespaces, nodes, pods, and services.
  • Monitoring the usage of resources across clusters and environments to ensure that spending aligns with business objectives.
  • Predicting future expenses and setting budgets to maintain financial discipline and prevent cost overruns.

How does CloudSpend manage Kubernetes costs in a multi-cloud environment?

CloudSpend addresses the challenges of Kubernetes cost management in a multi-cloud environment by providing an auto-created report, that enables organizations to track, analyze, and optimize their Kubernetes clusters, pods, and namespaces expenses effectively.

The Kubernetes cost report by CloudSpend delivers real-time cost visibility and insights in a separate unified dashboard for organizations using Kubernetes in their AWS accounts, Azure subscriptions, and GCP projects. This enables users to obtain detailed cost breakdowns by different categories to identify cost drivers. In addition, you set budgets and schedule generating Kubernetes cost reports.

By leveraging the Budget and Schedule Report features in CloudSpend, you can proactively manage Kubernetes costs in a multi-cloud environment. The Budget feature provides financial boundaries and real-time alerts that help you prevent overspending, while the Schedule Reports feature provides a summary of all the reports that have been scheduled or can be scheduled.

You can obtain separate cloud bills based on your cloud provider to drill down to the Kubernetes cluster, pods, or namespace spending patterns so you can optimize your cloud bills. This ensures that you have up-to-date visibility into your Kubernetes spending across all cloud platforms. If you wish to drill down the cloud cost further, you can create Business Units for the respective accounts.

CloudSpend allocates costs based on Kubernetes-specific tags, such as nodes and clusters. This granular cost allocation enables precise tracking of expenses, ensuring that costs are accurately attributed to the relevant projects or teams in your multi-cloud environment.

The following entities are used to tag your Kubernetes cluster, pods, and namespaces from your AWS, Azure, and GCP environments to make data-driven decisions:

AWS

Report category

Report display name Description Tag key Tag value
Kubernetes <Cluster-Name> The EKS cluster name eks:cluster-name Cluster Name
Kubernetes <Node-Group-Name> The EKS node group name eks:nodegroup-name Node Group Name

Azure

Report category

Report display name Description Tag key Tag value
Azure Kubernetes <Cluster-Name> The Azure Kubernetes cluster name aks-managed-cluster-name Azure Kubernetes
Azure Kubernetes <Pool-Name> The Azure Kubernetes pool name aks-managed-poolName Azure Kubernetes

GCP

Report category

Report display name Description Tag key Tag value
GCP Kubernetes <Cluster-Name> The GCP Kubernetes (K8s) cluster goog-k8s-cluster-name <gcp-k8-cluster-name>
GCP Kubernetes <Pool-Name> The GCP Kubernetes (K8s) node pool name goog-k8s-node-pool-name <gcp-k8-node-pool-name>

Benefits of Kubernetes cost report

Here are some of the key benefits of the Kubernetes cost report:

  • Provides a detailed breakdown of expenses by cluster, or nodes.
  • Identifies cost-saving opportunities and optimizes your Kubernetes cluster or nods deployments in your multi-cloud environment.
  • Creates budgets, manages your cloud bills, and notifies in case of budget breaches.
  • Makes informed choices about resource allocation and optimization.

Interpreting the Kubernetes cost report

With the Kubernetes cost report, you gain visibility into unified cost monitoring across Kubernetes concepts, such as clusters and nodes for your multi-cloud environment.

Follow these steps to view the Kubernetes cost report:

  1. Log in to CloudSpend and go to Reports.
  2. Select the applicable Kubernetes report based on the cloud provider.
  3. From the Kubernetes page, you can filter the applicable Kubernetes report for the respective cloud provider.
  4. Select the applicable account to view the Spend Analysis dashboard of that particular account.

Spend Analysis

The Spend Analysis page delivers details to you about costs by Service, Account, Region, Component, Trend, and Resource.When you select a report from the Reports page, you are taken to the Spend Analysis section, where details on the total cost accrued, the maximum spending account, and the minimum spending account are provided.

Click the Add button on the Spend Analysis page to configure Business Units, Budget, and Schedule Report for your cost accounts.

Resource Explorer

The Resource Explorer feature provides you with an aggregated view of your resources in various categories like Accounts, Region, Service, or Tags. The granular details of your resource-level spending can be viewed on a daily, monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis, and can be exported as a PDF or emailed immediately.

You can also set a custom duration and view cost data. Click the Add button on the Resource Explorer page to configure Business Units, Budget, and Schedule Report for your cost accounts.

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