opencost

Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs

Monitoring mixin for Kubernetes cost monitoring. A set of Grafana dashboards and Prometheus rules for OpenCost.

CODA is a web app for academic libraries and research institutions to manage the full open access publication fee workflow: funding requests, review/approval, invoicing, and openCost cost reporting.

Sample of using OpenCost on AKS

Production-grade Kubernetes controller for automated cost governance with OpenCost integration

NeuroScale is a self-service AI inference platform on Kubernetes. A developer fills in a Backstage form, the platform creates a pull request, ArgoCD deploys it, and a production-grade KServe inference endpoint is live — with cost attribution, drift control, and policy guardrails enforced automatically at every stage.

KubeScope is the Kubernetes dashboard for teams who care what each pod costs and which deployment just broke the budget. Real per-namespace cost, live cluster pulse, alerts that mean something, and a calm UI with motion that earns its place.

Cloud-Native IDP & GitOps platform featuring Argo CD (App-of-Apps), Terraform, OpenTelemetry, LGTM Stack (Grafana/Prometheus/Loki/Tempo), and OpenCost on Kubernetes/k3s. Built for zero-idle multi-tenant platform engineering.

End-to-end CNCF MLOps pipeline reference architecture on Kubernetes: Volcano gang scheduling, OpenCost GPU cost attribution, KServe LLM serving, HAMi, KAITO, KitOps, and in-toto. KubeCon EU 2026 tutorial.

Kubernetes cost collection and allocation with OpenCost, an existing Prometheus, Helm, Terraform/OpenTofu and production operations documentation

EKS vs AKS vs GKE — production comparison across 10 dimensions, GitOps, Aviatrix, Opencost, 40-page guide.

Production-ready Internal Developer Platform: Backstage portal, Crossplane infra-as-CRDs, ArgoCD GitOps with sync waves, vCluster multi-tenancy, OPA Gatekeeper policy enforcement, OpenCost chargeback, and golden-path CI/CD with ephemeral PR environments.

Multi-cloud FinOps dashboard — Grafana, Opencost, LLM recommendations, AWS + Azure + GCP cost consolidation.

Per-PR preview environments for Kubernetes with TTL cleanup and actual cost-on-PR attribution (OpenCost)

Local-first Internal Developer Platform with Backstage, Argo CD, Kubernetes, golden paths, observability, policy, secrets, cost, and recovery validation.

A governed MCP server exposing Kubernetes cost data from OpenCost to an AI agent, under least privilege, audit and a budget guard.

Practical Google Cloud guides.

EKS cost optimization patterns: Karpenter Spot-first NodePools + consolidation, Graviton (arm64) migration, recommendation-only VPA rightsizing, and OpenCost vs. Kubecost with CUR net pricing. Sanitized.

A comprehensive Terraform module for deploying a complete environmental impact monitoring and cost tracking stack on Kubernetes clusters. This module orchestrates four specialized sub-modules to provide visibility into your cluster's energy consumption, operational costs, and environmental impact.