#1 most frequent
United States of America
58.6%99 installations of 169
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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Who Buys & Uses IBM Kubecost
#2 most frequent
Brazil
7.1%12 installations of 169
#3 most frequent
France
5.9%10 installations of 169
Very useful in enterprises
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
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
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