Cost Insights leverages the existing customer metrics of the Cisco Observability Platform, analyzes the workloads running in cloud and cloud-native infrastructures, and generates detailed cost data for all infrastructure workloads and services. Cost Insights then ingests the cost information as a new metric displayed in Cisco Cloud Observability in the entity-centric pages (ECPs) such as APM, Kubernetes®, and Hosts. 

Why Use Cost Insights?

Cost Insights provides granular cost data and analysis to help leaders and Financial Operations (FinOps) understand and manage costs associated with an application and infrastructure in the cloud. Cost Insights can provide cost details on the most granular level of your infrastructure, such as containers and pods, and those cost details can be rolled up to all types of workloads, namespaces, and clusters. The ability to break down costs at both the macro and granular levels enables different personas (FinOps, product owners, and so on) to understand the costs that concern them. For example, FinOps practitioners at the highest level get a broad view of the cost reporting for the entire infrastructure; product owners understand their spending down to developers working on individual workloads. Each persona will be able to see the total cost of their spending and the breakdown into efficiency (utilized cost vs. idle cost) of the resources. As a result, it enables them to make informed decisions to reduce costs or make better investments.

Cost Insights Supported

Cloud Environments

Cost Insights supports the following environments:

  • AWS
  • Azure

Cloud Services

Cost Insights provides cost analysis for the following cloud services:

Amazon Services

  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
  • Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS)
  • Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
  • Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
  • Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
  • Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
  • Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
  • Amazon S3
  • AWS Lambda
  • Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Azure Services

  • Azure App Service Plans
  • Azure Application Gateway
  • Azure Container Instances
  • Azure Container Registries
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Azure Database for MariaDB
  • Azure Database for MySQL
  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Disk Storage
  • Azure Function Apps
  • Azure Key Vaults
  • Azure Load Balancer 
  • Azure Logic Apps
  • Azure Service Bus

  • Azure SQL Database

  • Azure Web Apps

Prerequisites

You must have the following:

  • AWS environment
  • Azure environment
  • Kubernetes® cluster
  • At least one service running on the Kubernetes cluster
  • Connected your AWS Cloud to Cisco Cloud Observability



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