Analyze EKS costs

DoiT Cloud Analytics integrates EKS cluster metrics with AWS billing data. It allows you to break down EKS cost by Kubernetes resources and other Dimensions and labels supported in the DoiT platform.

To build and run Cloud Analytics reports, you need the Cloud Analytics permission in the DoiT console.

EKS labels

EKS labels are assigned at the Pods level. You can use EKS labels to track Kubernetes resources usage, analyze project cost, and identify cost optimization opportunities.

In the DoiT Cloud Analytics Reports, EKS labels are grouped under the EKS Labels section, which consists of two categories:

• Kubernetes metadata: Data that helps uniquely identify a Kubernetes object, including EKS billing_source, EKS cluster name, EKS deployment_kind EKS pod, EKS uid, EKS pod_owner_name, and EKS nodegroup name.

• Custom labels: Labels defined and assigned from your side. These labels appear with a prefix label_ in the DoiT console, for example, label_k8s_app.

DoiT Cloud Analytics integrates EKS metrics with AWS billing data, which means you can combine EKS labels with AWS cost allocation tags assigned to other AWS resources in the same report.

Example reports

The DoiT console provides a pre-built EKS Lens dashboard with report widgets highlighting various aspects of your Amazon EKS spend. You can also build your own reports using EKS labels and other dimensions. Below are some examples.

Cost breakdown by namespace and pod owner

This example breaks down the cost of the EKS cluster eks-cluster-1 in the last month by namepace and pod owner.

Cost breakdown by cost type and SKU

This example further breaks down the EKS cluster cost by cost type and SKU.

Cost attribution across services

In this example, the organization uses the label Team to distinguish AWS resources requested by different entities. To display the costs of EKS and other AWS services in the same report, you can include both the standard label Team and the EKS custom label EKS label_team. (Alternatively, you can create an attribution that contains the standard label and its corresponding EKS custom label, and then use attributions in your report.)