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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Kubernetes cost analytics — Kubecost/OpenCost integration, namespace and deployment-level cost breakdown, Python data pipeline, Grafana dashboards. Drives chargeback and showback for multi-tenant clusters.

Production-ready backend-first IDP reference architecture — Crossplane v2, ArgoCD v3, Kyverno, Shadow Metrics. 7 XRDs, 21 compositions, 12 teams, 109 claims across AWS/GCP/Azure. KubeCon EU 2026.

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