Cost Groups

The Cost Groups page lets users logically group resources and view costs in a way that aligns with business structure.
Instead of looking at raw infrastructure, costs can be organized by teams, projects, or environments.

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Why Cost Groups?

Cloud bills are often fragmented across clusters, namespaces, VMs, and storage.
Cost Groups help:

• Create custom groupings of resources
• Track spend against departments, cost centers, or projects
• Enable chargeback/showback for financial accountability

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Creating a Cost Group

1. Click “Create Group”
2. Select the resources to include:
   • Kubernetes clusters, namespaces
3. Give the group a name (e.g., "Database Team – Production")

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Group Insights

Once created, the following will be visible:

• 📊 Total cost of the group
• 🔎 Breakdown by resource type (cluster, namespace)
• 📈 Historical trend chart to track growth over time (daily trend graph)
• 🎛️ filters (date range resource type) to refine the view and focus on specific periods or resource categories for deeper analysis

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Common Use Cases

• Department View → Finance, Engineering, Marketing
• Environment View → Production, Staging, Development
• Project View → App Launch, Migration Project, R&D

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🎯 Tip: Cost Groups turn raw data into business-aligned insights that executives and managers can actually act on.

Advanced Cost Group Features

Tagging and Labels

Cost Groups can automatically include resources based on:

• Kubernetes Labels → team=frontend, env=production
• Cloud Tags → AWS/Azure/GCP resource tags
• Custom Attributes → Business-specific categorizations

Group Hierarchies

Create nested cost groups for complex organizations:

Company Total
├── Engineering Division
│   ├── Frontend Team
│   ├── Backend Team
│   └── DevOps Team
└── Product Division
    ├── Marketing Team
    └── Analytics Team

Cost Group Analytics

Each group provides detailed insights:

• Cost Trends → Historical spending patterns
• Resource Efficiency → Utilization vs cost metrics