The Cloud Cost Management is a module built on the Cisco Observability Platform that helps you optimize the resources and costs for your cloud services and Kubernetes® workloads. The module consists of the following two features to manage your infrastructure costs and efficiency:

  • Cost Insights analyzes cloud and cloud-native workloads, producing granular cost data for infrastructure services. It then feeds this cost data as metrics to entities representing APM, Kubernetes, and Hosts.
  • Application Resource Optimizer (ARO) uses machine learning algorithms to automate the optimization of Kubernetes workloads. It dynamically adjusts resource allocations and configurations to enhance performance, increase resource utilization efficiency, decrease operational costs, and minimize the likelihood of service interruptions.

Enable Cloud Cost Management

To enable the module, navigate to the FSO Platform Exchange and click Subscribe under the Cloud Cost Management module. 

Licensing and Entitlements

This module ingests metrics to provide security information, consuming additional license units. The size of the metrics is based primarily on the number of pods in the Kubernetes cluster with security monitoring and a few other factors. See Cisco Observability Platform License and Entitlements.  

Next Steps

Cost InsightsApplication Resource Optimizer (ARO)
  1. Learn more about Cost Insights.
  2. Get familiar with the Cost Insights UI
  3. Create Cost Insights Teams and Budgets.
  4. Integrate Cost Insights with your cloud platform billing.
  5. View Cost Insights for Workloads Dashboard and the Cost Insights UI to understand and identify infrastructure cost issues.
  1. Learn about ARO and the available optimization tools.
  2. Determine whether Instant Recommendations or Active Optimization better meets your use case.
  3. Apply the Instant Recommendation's suggested resource specifications or start Active Optimization.