A quick approach for cost monitoring on Kubernetes

How to get cost insights about the projects running on Kubernetes without introducing any extra components

This article presents an approach to approximate the costs a specific project/team generates on Kubernetes, based on the ratio of resources allocated to them vs. the total resources in the cluster.

Our Kubernetes cluster is deployed using AWS EKS, and we use DataDog as a monitoring solution. The screenshots and pieces of code that illustrate…