Keeping an eye on your cloud resources becomes increasingly difficult as their number grows. However, the tools below offer effective solutions for monitoring resources and controlling costs.

Komiser

Komiser is an open-source platform loved by cloud experts and developers. Connect your cloud accounts to get detailed insights into your cloud infrastructure.

It provides a nice dashboard to see your cloud assets inventory, understand their resource dependencies, and uncover idle, underutilized, and untagged resources. Komiser aims to bring transparency to cloud management. I see it as a useful tool for creating an inventory of your cloud resources. It can be connected to AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean, and more. It is interesting to see what resources are abstracted from when using a library like AWS CDK or AWS SAM.

Steampipe

Steampipe is a tool for querying cloud APIs and other data sources using SQL in a zero-ETL manner.

Some key capabilities include:

• Dynamically query APIs, code repositories, logs, and other data sources using SQL for unified access.
• Combining data from different sources creates new insights…