We are thrilled to introduce Kubecost 2.7, packed with new features designed to enhance cost visibility, diagnostics, and reporting flexibility. This release focuses on making show-back/chargeback reporting more powerful, improving troubleshooting, and adding customization options for right-sizing recommendations.

Sharing Costs in Kubecost Collections

Thanks to the 2.7 release, managing shared costs across teams and departments is easier than ever! With the latest enhancements to Kubecost Collections, you can now allocate and track costs for any type of shared resource—not just Kubernetes resources, but also cloud provider costs, such as shared databases, object storage, or networking services.

This enhancement delivers:

• Better cost transparency: Users can assign costs from shared resources to specific teams or business units, ensuring fairness in budgeting and allocation.
• More powerful reporting: Integrate collections with Kubecost Categories for precise show-back and chargeback analysis, making it easy to track and justify expenses.
• Improved accuracy in cost allocation: When collections overlap, Kubecost now assigns costs to individual collections instead of just calculating the total overlap. This eliminates confusion and ensures that cost distributions reflect organizational priorities.

With these improvements, organizations can confidently manage and optimize cloud spending while ensuring accountability across teams.

Massively Revamped Diagnostics

Troubleshooting and debugging in Kubecost just got a major upgrade with 2.7! We’ve introduced a dedicated Diagnostics navigation item with this release.

The Cluster Diagnostics view makes it easier to:

• Verify that all your clusters are reporting the necessary data to Kubecost.
• Quickly identify any errors or missing data that may be affecting cost monitoring.
• Diagnose and resolve issues faster, thanks to a cleanup of logs that improves visibility into potential problems.

With this improvement, debugging installations and configuration errors in Kubecost is easier than ever!

Custom Profiles for Request Right-Sizing

Right-sizing capabilities just got a significant enhancement! Kubecost 2.7 introduces custom profiles for request right-sizing, allowing users to save configurations for future use.

These profiles can be managed through both Helm and the UI, making it easier to:

• Save and reuse right-sizing recommendations based on your organization’s preferences.
• Apply custom right-sizing policies across clusters with a high-degree of consistency.
• Streamline the process of optimizing resource requests for cost savings to reduce manual effort and the potential for human error.

These enhancements underscore the fact that right-sizing isn’t a one-glove-fits-all process, and these new capabilities allow for greater tuning of recommendations and a reduction in the ongoing effort required to stay on top of cost savings opportunities.

Kubecost 2.7 delivers powerful enhancements that improve cost transparency, troubleshooting, and reporting. Whether you’re looking for more accurate show-back/chargeback reporting, better diagnostics, or advanced filtering capabilities, this release has something for you.

Upgrade to Kubecost 2.7 today and take full advantage of these new features!