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IBM Kubecost

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What is IBM Kubecost?

IBM Kubecost is a self-hosted Kubernetes cost visibility and optimization platform that provides real-time insights to help teams reduce cloud spend and scale cost efficiently.

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IBM Kubecost Reviews

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Great tool for optimizing your cloud and Kubernetes infra spending

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Kubecost for cost monitoring and optimization for the kubernetes and cloud native environments. It helps with cost allocation, unified monitoring and rightsizing the infra needs for our applications. We use a Saas managed approach to run the local agents securely across the cloud clusters and optimize the applications

Pros

  • Unified monitoring
  • Optimization
  • Rightsizing

Cons

  • Sometimes the rightsizing can require a lot of manual engineering
  • External cloud infrastructure tracking can be improved

Return on Investment

  • Given that we are going through a cloud transformation journey, IBM Kubecost has helped reduce the infra cost by up to 20% by detecting any wrong configuration early in the process
  • It also helped us determine the idle and orphaned resources that we could cleanup to save costs

Usability

Alternatives Considered

CloudZero and Datadog

Other Software Used

Peak Decision Intelligence Platform, Apigee Edge, ADS

Very useful in enterprises

Incentivized
Samir Kadoo
Global PSA Leader in Information Technology at ITSS (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We utilize IBM Kubecost to monitor costs of workloads between various AWS accounts.

Pros

  • Ease
  • I think IBM Kubecost is Informative
  • In my experience, IBM Kubecost is Simple to use

Cons

  • I think there is room for improvement in IBM Kubecost if you Streamline IBM Kubecost more with AWS cost explorer

Return on Investment

  • Cost savings
  • cost monitoring
  • budget control

Usability

Alternatives Considered

AWS Cost Explorer and IBM Kubecost

Other Software Used

IBM Apptio

IBM Kubecost and the value it provides

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Kubecost is used for overall management and optimization of the customer ( who I manage and advocate for Kubecost) kubernetes environment. The tool provides usually information on an organizations's environment, what things can be improved and what things is the organization doing right. Having a tool like this at your disposal is very useful

Pros

  • Overall kubernetes management
  • cost monitoring
  • financial planning for kubernetes

Cons

  • AI integration
  • integration with other Products
  • Customer support

Return on Investment

  • faster time to market
  • Awareness of the scale of the kubernetes environment
  • Better cost management of organizations kubernetes environment

Usability

Optimize your K8 with data at a glance

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I manage a azure k8 platform and many tenants on my clusters / containers are from various app teams I use Kubecost to provide cost transparency to my tenants so they can optimize their spend and make better cost effective architecture decisions for their apps

Pros

  • Show namespace level cost and usage
  • Allow rightisizibg At namespace level
  • Show effectiveness of current resources allocation

Cons

  • Agents installation and the ping fed integration
  • The amount of CPU Kubecost agents use

Most Important Features

  • The level of detail data on usage for k8 containers
  • The ability to optimize for k8 containers namespace level
  • Efficiency calculation for namespace

Return on Investment

  • Allowed individual teams to better their cloud architecture for cost efficiency
  • Save on cloud investment

Alternatives Considered

Apptio Cloudability

Other Software Used

Apptio Cloudability