Kubecost Broadens Scope Beyond Kubernetes Cost Management

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Honeycomb sponsored The New Stack’s coverage of Kubecon+CloudNativeCon North America 2020. StackWatch has expanded the capabilities of its Kubecost tool beyond the management and monitoring of cost and capacity in Kubernetes environments.

With this step, Kubecost gives users a single view into both Kubernetes and “out of cluster” spending on cloud resources.

By merging real-time Kubernetes cost data with external cloud billing data, Kubecost now allows teams to see costs broken down by Kubernetes and other cloud services without any tagging.

They realized the lack of visibility into Kubernetes cost and performance capacity was due to Kubernetes environments’ technical complexity and dynamism, and developers’ decentralized decision-making.

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