Analyze data for your Kubernetes containers

Container Cost Allocation

The Container Cost Allocation feature provides deeper insights into your provisioned clusters. This helps you allocate costs accurately by Kubernetes clusters, namespaces, labels, workloads, and other methods.

For more information, see Container Cost Allocation.

From the main menu, select Insights > Containers.
The Container Cost Allocation menu is displayed for you to provision your Kubernetes clusters.

Note: Using EFS instead of EBS for storage for containers is not supported in Cloudability.

Allocation and Idle Resources

The cost for idle resources is distributed across a given dimension based on the percent share of the total cost during that interval.

For pods classified as Guaranteed Quality of Service , Cloudability utilizes the request data for allocation since the amount of requested resources is reserved, . For more information, see Configure Quality of Service for Pods.
For pods classified as Burstable, Cloudability utilizes the request or usage information, whichever is of higher value for allocation.
For pods classified as Best Effort, Cloudability leverages the usage information for allocation.

Cost Basis

The Cloudability collection agent compiles metrics from your Kubernetes clusters and sends them to Cloudability for analysis. Using native metric sources, Cloudability allocates cost and provides insights into idle resources for your clusters.

For more information, see Containers.

Cloudability uses Cost (Adjusted) as default resource cost for allocation.
If you do not use a Cost (Adjusted) metric, Cloudability uses Cost (Total) in its calculation.
Cloudability also supports the Cost (Amortized ) metric in container cost allocation. This helps you understand the full cost of your Kubernetes cluster, including any consumed reserved instances (RIs) and savings plans (SPs). While analyzing clusters, switching to Cost (Amortized ) allows you to include full cost of consumed RIs and SPs.

You can split costs by namespace, services, and labels.

Idle Cost Distribution

Overview

Containers have a spare overhead capacity not used by underlying workloads. This “idle” usage has an associated cost (for virtual machines and volumes). Cloudability distributes these idle container costs within its reports, dashboards, and container cost allocation.

This introduces the new metric category Containers along with six others. You can use these metrics to view separately Utilized, Idle and Fairshare costs for cash or amortized basis. idle cost distribution screenshot

The Container Cost Allocation feature evaluates resource utilization on each node and adds it to the billing data to calculate the cost of each cluster. This associates the Utilized Cost to Kubernetes namespace and label values (available within reports by using the namespace or a label dimension). With this enhancement you can also report on the Idle Cost via the new metric, allocated to the namespace and label values proportionally based on their direct cost contribution of each node. The Fairshare Cost is the sum of Utilized Cost and the Idle Cost.

Considerations and reporting ideas to keep in mind with new metrics:

For non-container costs, the new metrics will all display $0. To filter to container only data, use a filter such as “Cluster Name not equals (not set)”
Use these metrics with different dimensions to easily visualize Utilized vs Idle Cost. For example, list out by Cluster Name or Resource ID.
For the first time, use cash and amortized cost basis together for detailed container cost reporting.

Container allocation data export

Click the Export export csv icon icon to export the cost allocation data in .csv format.

You can export data when allocating across clusters, or within a single cluster, by Namespace, Service, and Label.

.CSV Data Definitions

Name	Definition
Type	Displays whether the row is allocation data, or reporting on unallocated (idle) usage or cost.
Namespace	Kubernetes Namespace object name.
Service	Kubernetes Service object name.
Label	Kubernetes Label value.
cpu/reserved:allocation	Percentage of CPU usage allocated to that row during the timeframe queried.
cpu/reserved:fairShare	Percentage of CPU usage allocated to that row during the timeframe queried when sharing distributing across objects.
cpu/reserved:resource:mean	Average CPU usage observed during the time frame queried.
cpu/reserved:resource:unit	Unit of measurement for CPU usage.
memory/reserved_rss:allocation	Percentage of Memory Resident Set Size usage allocated to that row during the time frame queried.
memory/reserved_rss:fairShare	Percentage of Memory Resident Set Size usage allocated to that row during the timeframe queried when distributing unallocated (idle) across objects.
memory/reserved_rss:resource:mean	Average Memory Resident Set Size usage observed during the timeframe queried.
memory/reserved_rss:resource:unit	Unit of measurement for Memory Resident Set Size usage.
network/tx:allocation	Percentage of Network TX usage allocated to that row during the timeframe queried.
network/tx:fairShare	Percentage of Network TX usage allocated to that row during the timeframe queried when distributing unallocated (idle) across objects.
network/tx:resource:mean	Average Network TX usage observed during the timeframe queried.
network/tx:resource:unit	Unit of measurement for Network TX usage.
network/rx:allocation	Percentage of Network RX usage allocated to that row during the timeframe queried.
network/rx:fairShare	Percentage of Network RX usage allocated to that row during the timeframe queried when distributing unallocated across objects.
network/rx:resource:mean	Average Network RX usage observed during the timeframe queried.
network/rx:resource:unit	Unit of measurement for Network RX usage.
filesystem/usage:allocation	Percentage of Container Filesystem usage allocated to that row during the timeframe queried.
filesystem/usage:fairShare	Percentage of Container Filesystem usage allocated to that row during the timeframe queried when distributing unallocated (idle) across objects.
filesystem/usage:resource:mean	Average Container Filesystem usage observed during the timeframe queried.
filesystem/usage:resource:unit	Unit of measurement for Container Filesystem usage.
percentages:allocation	Overall Percentage across Memory, CPU, Network RX/TX, and Filesystem allocated to that row during the timeframe queried.
percentages:fairShare	Overall Percentage across Memory, CPU, Network RX/TX, and Filesystem allocated to that row during the timeframe queried when distributing unallocated (idle) across objects.
percentages:fairShareUnallocated	Overall Percentage of Unallocated (idle) across Memory, CPU, Network RX/TX, and Filesystem that is shared by that row when distributing Unallocated (idle) across objects.
costs:allocation	Overall Cost across Memory, CPU, Network RX/TX, and Filesystem allocated to that row during the timeframe queried.
costs:fairShare	Overall Cost of Unallocated (idle) across Memory, CPU, Network RX/TX, and Filesystem that is shared by that row when distributing Unallocated (idle) across objects.
costs:unallocated	Overall Unallocated (idle) Cost across Memory, CPU, Network RX/TX, and Filesystem during them timeframe queried when not distributed across objects.

Supported Kubernetes configurations

There are many different ways to deploy Kubernetes. We support all versions certified by the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation):

Service	Vendor	Memory/CPU/Disk Average	% Allocation	$ Allocation
None	AWS	Yes	Yes	Yes
None	Azure	Yes	Yes	Yes
None	GCP	Yes	Yes	Yes
GKE	GCP	Yes	Yes	Yes
EKS	AWS	Yes	Yes	Yes
AKS	Azure	Yes	Yes	Yes

To learn more about Kubernetes, refer the following topics: