Show HN: Open Source Cloud Costs Monitoring in Docker

Posted by mattray on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:09PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/mattray/opencost/blob/docker-ui/demo/README.md

OpenCost is an open source implementation for Kubernetes cost monitoring and now cloud cost monitoring for AWS, Azure, and GCP. The project makes all of this data accessible via an API and user interface. While discussing the idea of running OpenCost on platforms besides Kubernetes we realized that with this new Cloud Costs feature there are users who want API access to their cloud billing data without needing to run on Kubernetes. I opened the Issue OpenCost without Kubernetes #2268 and as luck would have it, we had our internal Hackathon last week.

If you're not familiar with OpenCost, it's the open source CNCF project for monitoring Kubernetes and cloud spending. It's a Golang implementation of the OpenCost Specification for monitoring Kubernetes cloud costs. It has an optional web UI and you can also run it as a Prometheus metrics exporter. The code is all at https://github.com/opencost/opencost and you can learn more about the project at https://opencost.io

Re:Show HN: Open Source Cloud Costs Monitoring in Docker by fftb1100 on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:55PM (#38371714)

This looks like a waste of time. What is this even useful for?

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Re:Show HN: Open Source Cloud Costs Monitoring in Docker by mattray on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @06:00PM (#38371782)

Cloud billing is notoriously complicated to deal with, this is a CNCF project that should help folks access this data without having to maintain a bunch of artisanal scripts.

Re:Show HN: Open Source Cloud Costs Monitoring in Docker by webb on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @05:58PM (#38371760)

To give engineering, platform, and other teams a (multi-cloud) cost monitoring that is standardized across all major providers...