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

Kubernetes cost allocation, logs, continuous profiling and eBPF network cost in one install. OpenCost- and Loki-compatible APIs, rightsizing that applies through guarded CRDs, and read-only agents with an MCP server.

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

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.

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.

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.

Actual cost of Argo CD applications, from OpenCost, inside the Argo CD UI

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

Split the unattributed cost of a shared Kubernetes cluster across the namespaces that share it.

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

EKS autoscaling bake-off on Spot: Karpenter vs Cluster Autoscaler vs EKS Auto Mode, with OpenCost (talk + demo)

Top Cloud Cost Analysis Visualization (Opensource) Star if you like it!

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.

Production-style AWS EKS platform reference: Terraform, GitHub OIDC, Argo CD, Cosign/Kyverno, Falco/Trivy, SLOs, OpenCost & DR patterns

Production Cloud-Native Microservices & GitOps Platform on AWS EKS Auto Mode (v1.31). Built with Two-Tier Ephemeral Terraform (~$1/mo idle cost, 95% savings), Argo CD, Argo Rollouts Canary, Keyless OIDC Supply Chain Security (Trivy, Syft SBOM, Cosign), Shared ALB + WAFv2, ESO (IRSA), RDS MySQL, Redis 7, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenCost FinOps.

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