Assets API

Assets API

Using the Assets API

GET http://<your-kubecost-address>/model/assets

The Assets API retrieves backing cost data broken down by individual assets in your cluster but also provides various aggregations of this data.

Table 1. Path Parameters
Name Required Type Description
window true string Duration of time over which to query. Accepts multiple different formats of time (see theUsing the window parameter section for more info).
aggregate false string Used to consolidate cost model data. Supported values are account, cluster, project, providerid, provider, and type. Passing an empty value for this parameter or none at all returns data by an individual asset. Supports multi-aggregation (aggregation of multiple categories) in a comma separated list, such as aggregate=account,project.
accumulate false boolean When set to false, this endpoint returns daily time series data vs cumulative data. Default value is false.
disableAdjustments false boolean When set to true, zeros out all adjustments from cloud provider reconciliation, which would otherwise change the totalCost. Default value is false.
format false string When set to csv, will download an accumulated version of the asset results in CSV format. By default, results will be in JSON format.
offset false int Refers to the number of line items you are offsetting. Pairs with limit. See the section on Using offset and limit parameters to parse payload results for more info.
limit false int Refers to the number of line items per page. Pair with the offset parameter to filter your payload to specific pages of line items. You should also set accumulate=true to obtain a single list of line items, otherwise you will receive a group of line items per interval of time being sampled.
filter false string Filter your results by any category which you can aggregate by, can support multiple filterable items in the same category in a comma-separated list. For example, to filter results by projects A and B, use filter=project:projectA,projectB. See our Filter Parameters doc for a complete explanation of how to use filters and what categories are supported.
Table 2. Responses
Code Description Example
200 OK 
{
  cluster: "..."  // parent cluster for asset
  cpuCores: 1  // number of CPUs, given this is a node asset type
  cpuCost: 0.00 // cumulative cost of CPU measured over time window
  discount: 0.0 // discount applied to asset cost
  end: "2020-08-21T00:00:00+0000" // end of measured time window
  gpuCost: 0
  key: "..."
  name: "..."
  nodeType: "..."
  preemptible: 0
  providerID: "..."
  ramBytes: 0
  ramCost: 0.00
  start: "2020-08-20T00:00:00+0000"
  adjustment: 0.00 // amount added to totalCost during reconciliation with cloud provider data
  totalCost: 0.00 // total asset cost after applied discount
  type: "node" // e.g. node, disk, cluster management fee, etc
}

API examples

Retrieve assets cost data for the past week, aggregated by type, and as cumulative object data:

http://localhost:9090/model/assets?window=1w&aggregate=type&accumulate=true

Response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": [
    {
      "ClusterManagement": {
        "type": "ClusterManagement",
        "properties": {
          "category": "Management",
          "provider": "GCP",
          "project": "guestbook-227502",
          "service": "Kubernetes",
          "cluster": "cluster-one"
        },
        "labels": {
          "cost-center": "engineering",
          "firebase": "enabled",
          "namespace": "kubecost",
          "test_gcp_label": "test_gcp_value"
        },
        "window": {
          "start": "2023-07-18T00:00:00Z",
          "end": "2023-07-25T00:00:00Z"
        },
        "start": "2023-07-18T00:00:00Z",
        "end": "2023-07-25T00:00:00Z",
        "minutes": 10080.000000,
        "totalCost": 16.105322
      },
      "Disk": {
        "type": "Disk",
        "properties": {
          "category": "Storage",
          "provider": "GCP",
          "project": "guestbook-227502",
          "service": "Kubernetes",
          "cluster": "cluster-one"
        },
        "labels": {
          "cost-center": "engineering",
          "firebase": "enabled",
          "namespace": "kubecost",
          "test_gcp_label": "test_gcp_value"
        },
        "window": {
          "start": "2023-07-18T00:00:00Z",
          "end": "2023-07-25T00:00:00Z"
        },
        "start": "2023-07-18T00:00:00Z",
        "end": "2023-07-24T17:10:00Z",
        "minutes": 9670.000000,
        "byteHours": 80541516519424.000000,
        "bytes": 499740536831.999939,
        "byteHoursUsed": 1260838260792.807129,
        "byteUsageMax": null,
        "breakdown": {
          "idle": 0.9800269272561808,
          "other": 0,
          "system": 0.019973072743819435,
          "user": 0
        },
        "adjustment": -6.533317,
        "totalCost": 3.630275,
        "storageClass": "",
        "volumeName": "",
        "claimName": "",
        "claimNamespace": ""
      },
      "LoadBalancer": {
        "type": "LoadBalancer",
        "properties": {
          "category": "Network",
          "provider": "GCP",
          "project": "guestbook-227502",
          "service": "Kubernetes",
          "cluster": "cluster-one",
          "name": "ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx-controller",
          "providerID": "35.202.154.180"
        },
        "labels": {
          "cost-center": "engineering",
          "firebase": "enabled",
          "namespace": "kubecost",
          "test_gcp_label": "test_gcp_value"
        },
        "window": {
          "start": "2023-07-18T00:00:00Z",
          "end": "2023-07-25T00:00:00Z"
        },
        "start": "2023-07-18T00:00:00Z",
        "end": "2023-07-24T17:10:00Z",
        "minutes": 9670.000000,
        "adjustment": 0.000000,
        "totalCost": 4.366667
      },
      "Network": {
        "type": "Network",
        "properties": {
          "category": "Network",
          "provider": "GCP",
          "project": "guestbook-227502",
          "service": "Kubernetes",
          "cluster": "cluster-one"
        },
        "labels": {
          "cost-center": "engineering",
          "firebase": "enabled",
          "goog-k8s-cluster-location": "us-central1-a",
          "goog-k8s-cluster-name": "kc-integration-test",
          "namespace": "kubecost",
          "test_gcp_label": "test_gcp_value"
        },
        "window": {
          "start": "2023-07-18T00:00:00Z",
          "end": "2023-07-25T00:00:00Z"
        },
        "start": "2023-07-18T00:00:00Z",
        "end": "2023-07-23T00:00:00Z",
        "minutes": 7200.0,
        "adjustment": -0.0,
        "totalCost": 2.290521
      },
      "Node": {
        "type": "Node",
        "properties": {
          "category": "Compute",
          "provider": "GCP",
          "project": "guestbook-227502",
          "service": "Kubernetes",
          "cluster": "cluster-one"
        },
        "labels": {
          "cost-center": "engineering",
          "firebase": "enabled",
          "instance": "10.95.11.109:9003",
          "job": "kubecost",
          "label_app": "integration",
          "label_beta_kubernetes_io_arch": "amd64",
          "label_beta_kubernetes_io_os": "linux",
          "label_cloud_google_com_gke_boot_disk": "pd-standard",
          "label_cloud_google_com_gke_container_runtime": "docker",
          "label_cloud_google_com_gke_cpu_scaling_level": "2",
          "label_cloud_google_com_gke_logging_variant": "DEFAULT",
          "label_cloud_google_com_gke_max_pods_per_node": "110",
          "label_cloud_google_com_gke_os_distribution": "cos",
          "label_department": "engineering",
          "label_env": "test",
          "label_failure_domain_beta_kubernetes_io_region": "us-central1",
          "label_failure_domain_beta_kubernetes_io_zone": "us-central1-a",
          "label_kubernetes_io_arch": "amd64",
          "label_kubernetes_io_os": "linux",
          "label_owner": "kubecost",
          "label_product": "integration",
          "label_team": "kubecost",
          "label_topology_kubernetes_io_region": "us-central1",
          "label_topology_kubernetes_io_zone": "us-central1-a",
          "namespace": "kubecost",
          "test_gcp_label": "test_gcp_value"
        },
        "window": {
          "start": "2023-07-18T00:00:00Z",
          "end": "2023-07-25T00:00:00Z"
        },
        "start": "2023-07-18T00:00:00Z",
        "end": "2023-07-24T17:10:00Z",
        "minutes": 9670.000000,
        "nodeType": "",
        "cpuCores": 6.0,
        "ramBytes": 23876288511.999996,
        "cpuCoreHours": 967.000000,
        "ramByteHours": 3848061831850.666504,
        "GPUHours": 0.000000,
        "cpuBreakdown": {
          "idle": 0.7816140688705785,
          "other": 0.01327077839354095,
          "system": 0.023247472082326824,
          "user": 0.18186768065355347
        },
        "ramBreakdown": {
          "idle": 0.9608696355583681,
          "other": 0,
          "system": 0.0044846381137333665,
          "user": 0.034645726327898
        },
        "preemptible": 0.000000,
        "discount": 0.222016,
        "cpuCost": 59016.618816,
        "gpuCost": 0.000000,
        "gpuCount": 0.000000,
        "ramCost": 29194.86507,
        "adjustment": -68597.241975,
        "totalCost": 29.862398
      }
    }
  ]
}

Retrieve all GCP costs, aggregated by asset type, in the past five days:

http://localhost:9090/model/assets?window=5d&aggregate=type&filterProviders=GCP

Response

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": [
    {
      "ClusterManagement": {
        "type": "ClusterManagement",
        "properties": {
          "category": "Management",
          "provider": "GCP",
          "project": "guestbook-227502",
          "service": "Kubernetes",
          "cluster": "cluster-one"
        },
        "labels": {
          "cost-center": "engineering",
          "firebase": "enabled",
          "namespace": "kubecost",
          "test_gcp_label": "test_gcp_value"
        },
        "window": {
          "start": "2023-07-20T00:00:00Z",
          "end": "2023-07-21T00:00:00Z"
        },
        "start": "2023-07-20T00:00:00Z",
        "end": "2023-07-21T00:00:00Z",
        "minutes": 1440.000000,
        "totalCost": 2.400048
      },
      "Disk": {
        "type": "Disk",
        "properties": {
          "category": "Storage",
          "provider": "GCP",
          "project": "guestbook-227502",
          "service": "Kubernetes",
          "cluster": "cluster-one"
        },
        "labels": {
          "cost-center": "engineering",
          "firebase": "enabled",
          "namespace": "kubecost",
          "test_gcp_label": "test_gcp_value"
        },
        "window": {
          "start": "2023-07-20T00:00:00Z",
          "end": "2023-07-21T00:00:00Z"
        },
        "start": "2023-07-20T00:00:00Z",
        "end": "2023-07-21T00:00:00Z",
        "minutes": 1440.000000,
        "byteHours": 11993772883968.000000,
        "bytes": 499740536832.000000,
        "byteHoursUsed": 186052795011.657166,
        "byteUsageMax": null,
        "breakdown": {
          "idle": 0.9535106760775518,
          "other": 0,
          "system": 0.04648932392244791,
          "user": 0
        },
        "adjustment": -0.125657,
        "totalCost": 0.508401,
        "storageClass": "",
        "volumeName": "",
        "claimName": "",
        "claimNamespace": ""
      },
      "LoadBalancer": {
        "type": "LoadBalancer",
        "properties": {
          "category": "Network",
          "provider": "GCP",
          "project": "guestbook-227502",
          "service": "Kubernetes",
          "cluster": "cluster-one",
          "name": "ingress-nginx/ingress-nginx-controller",
          "providerID": "35.202.154.180"
        },
        "labels": {
          "cost-center": "engineering",
          "firebase": "enabled",
          "namespace": "kubecost",
          "test_gcp_label": "test_gcp_value"
        },
        "window": {
          "start": "2023-07-20T00:00:00Z",
          "end": "2023-07-21T00:00:00Z"
        },
        "start": "2023-07-20T00:00:00Z",
        "end": "2023-07-21T00:00:00Z",
        "minutes": 1440.000000,
        "adjustment": 0.000000,
        "totalCost": 0.650000
      },
      "Network": {
        "type": "Network",
        "properties": {
          "category": "Network",
          "provider": "GCP",
          "project": "guestbook-227502",
          "service": "Kubernetes",
          "cluster": "cluster-one"
        },
        "labels": {
          "cost-center": "engineering",
          "firebase": "enabled",
          "goog-k8s-cluster-location": "us-central1-a",
          "goog-k8s-cluster-name": "kc-integration-test",
          "namespace": "kubecost",
          "test_gcp_label": "test_gcp_value"
        },
        "window": {
          "start": "2023-07-20T00:00:00Z",
          "end": "2023-07-21T00:00:00Z"
        },
        "start": "2023-07-20T00:00:00Z",
        "end": "2023-07-21T00:00:00Z",
        "minutes": 1440.000000,
        "adjustment": 0.000000,
        "totalCost": 0.462713
      },
      "Node": {
        "type": "Node",
        "properties": {
          "category": "Compute",
          "provider": "GCP",
          "project": "guestbook-227502",
          "service": "Kubernetes",
          "cluster": "cluster-one"
        },
        "labels": {
          "cost-center": "engineering",
          "firebase": "enabled",
          "goog-k8s-cluster-location": "us-central1-a",
          "goog-k8s-cluster-name": "kc-integration-test",
          "instance": "10.95.11.109:9003",
          "job": "kubecost",
          "label_app": "integration",
          "label_beta_kubernetes_io_arch": "amd64",
          "label_beta_kubernetes_io_os": "linux",
          "label_cloud_google_com_gke_boot_disk": "pd-standard",
          "label_cloud_google_com_gke_container_runtime": "docker",
          "label_cloud_google_com_gke_cpu_scaling_level": "2",
          "label_cloud_google_com_gke_logging_variant": "DEFAULT",
          "label_cloud_google_com_gke_max_pods_per_node": "110",
          "label_cloud_google_com_gke_os_distribution": "cos",
          "label_department": "engineering",
          "label_env": "test",
          "label_failure_domain_beta_kubernetes_io_region": "us-central1",
          "label_failure_domain_beta_kubernetes_io_zone": "us-central1-a",
          "label_kubernetes_io_arch": "amd64",
          "label_kubernetes_io_os": "linux",
          "label_owner": "kubecost",
          "label_product": "integration",
          "label_team": "kubecost",
          "label_topology_kubernetes_io_region": "us-central1",
          "label_topology_kubernetes_io_zone": "us-central1-a",
          "namespace": "kubecost",
          "test_gcp_label": "test_gcp_value"
        },
        "window": {
          "start": "2023-07-20T00:00:00Z",
          "end": "2023-07-21T00:00:00Z"
        },
        "start": "2023-07-20T00:00:00Z",
        "end": "2023-07-21T00:00:00Z",
        "minutes": 1440.000000,
        "nodeType": "",
        "cpuCores": 6.000000,
        "ramBytes": 23876288512.000000,
        "cpuCoreHours": 144.000000,
        "ramByteHours": 573030924288.000000,
        "GPUHours": 0.000000,
        "cpuBreakdown": {
          "idle": 0.7837941958332726,
          "other": 0.01326423545472175,
          "system": 0.022647815368734222,
          "user": 0.18029375334327175
        },
        "ramBreakdown": {
          "idle": 0.9616066744853431,
          "other": 0,
          "system": 0.0045971975313483845,
          "user": 0.033796127983308416
        },
        "preemptible": 0.000000,
        "discount": 0.198807,
        "cpuCost": 4.552767,
        "gpuCost": 0.000000,
        "gpuCount": 0.000000,
        "ramCost": 2.258987,
        "adjustment": -1.113280,
        "totalCost": 4.344250
      }
    }
  ]
}

Querying with endpoint to view cost totals across query

/topline is an optional API endpoint which can be added to your Assets query via .../model/assets/topline?window=... to provide a condensed overview of your total cost metrics including all line items sampled. You will receive a single list which sums the values per all items queried (totalCost), where numResults displays the total number of items sampled.

{
  "code": 200,
  "data": {
    "totalCost": ,
    "adjustment": ,
    "numResults": 
  }
}

Enable CPU and RAM cost breakdown

Prometheus queries for CPU and RAM mode breakdown are disabled by default. To receive these metrics, you must manually enable them.

kubecostModel:
 assetModeBreakdownEnabled: true

This will enable fields ramBreakdown, cpuBreakdown, and breakdown in the output of all future Assets queries.