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2024

On-Premises Kubernetes Cost Monitoring

14 minute read

With the power of automated orchestration, Kubernetes has solved many of the complex container management problems administrators faced and unleashed a globa...

Visualize your Kubernetes Network Costs

3 minute read

For many, Kubernetes networking costs can be a black box leading to unnecessary money spent on networking. Now, with Kubecost you can easily visualize what...

Kubernetes Readiness Probe: Tutorial & Examples

10 minute read

When developing applications running in a public cloud, containerized environments have different considerations than regular, “bare-metal” monoliths. One of...

Kubernetes Liveness Probe: Tutorial & Examples

18 minute read

Monitoring containerized workloads in Kubernetes is key to maintaining application performance and reliability. As an integral monitoring strategy of contain...

Guide to Kubernetes Management Tools

10 minute read

There are many Kubernetes management tools available today. These tools can vary in complexity, functionality, and price.

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2023

Direct Savings with Kubecost Actions

5 minute read

Kubecost is more than a product for monitoring spend ex-post-facto; it’s a proactive tool for reducing your future spend as well. The most recent expansion o...

Integrate Kubecost with Datadog

3 minute read

Learn how to extract, transform and load real-time Kubecost metrics into Datadog and visualize with a Datadog dashboard.

Kubecost Alerts Now Supports Microsoft Teams

3 minute read

Kubecost makes it a priority to support any team using Kubernetes, through platform support and integrations wherever possible. We are proudly announcing Kub...

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2022

Kubecost Version 1.99.0 - New Feature Highlights

4 minute read

We’ve just released the newest generally available version of Kubecost (1.99.0)! In this blog, I’ll highlight some of the new updates you can find after upd...

Kubecost Version 1.98.0 - New Feature Highlights

4 minute read

We’ve just released the newest generally available version of Kubecost (1.98.0)! This release in one of our largest yet and introduces a handful of new beta ...

Kubecost Version 1.97.0 - New Feature Highlights

2 minute read

We’ve just released the newest generally available version of Kubecost (1.97.0)! This new update contains a whole bunch of visual and under the hood improvem...

Measuring Argo Workflow Costs with Kubecost

4 minute read

Argo is the super popular open source tool for Kubernetes to run workflows, manage clusters, and do much more. One of its most common use cases is orchestrat...

Rancher vs Kubernetes: It’s not either or

9 minute read

Kubernetes (K8s) and Rancher are both open source projects focused on container management with enormous communities of contributors and users.

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2021

Use Kubecost to monitor EKS-Anywhere costs

3 minute read

We are proud to announce that Kubecost is an EKS Anywhere Launch Partner. AWS EKS customers can now use Kubecost to achieve unified cost monitoring across th...

The Guide to Kubernetes Labels

10 minute read

Using metadata tags attached to different resources and objects is a must-have requirement for any Kubernetes (K8s) environment. Kubernetes labels allow DevO...

A guide to spot-readiness in Kubernetes

5 minute read

Using spot nodes in your Kubernetes cluster can be intimidating due to their lack of availability guarantees. Kubecost’s Spot-Readiness Checklist is here to ...

A Guide to Kubernetes Chargeback

12 minute read

Implementing an effective Kubernetes chargeback model is particularly challenging—compared to other IT infrastructure types since Kubernetes is an inherently...

How to monitor Kubernetes costs with Lens IDE

2 minute read

Lens is the most powerful IDE for those who need to deal with Kubernetes clusters on a daily basis. It allows you to manage your cluster and view important h...

Real-time Kubernetes cost management alerts

10 minute read

Engineering teams can scale their Kubernetes costs and burn their budget with the same ease with which they scale their infrastructure. Thanks to Kubecost re...

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