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Hi, we are operating an IDP with K8s on AWS (one cluster, multiple applikation). We would like to report the consumptions cost of each application. Any best practices on that? We will most likely look at Kubecost as well as the newly release Split Cost reporting for EKS by AWS.

I think when it comes to cost reporting it all boils down to the  tagging strategy and how well it is enforced, Split cost only has cluster/namespace/node/pod - If you want true label based cost allocation you may need to ingest pod/namespace/deplyment/etc labels using kube_state_metrics into a table  - Kubecost / ScaleOps etc does this for you

thanks. yes, we are looking for namespace-based cost reporting.

Could possibly do it with OpenCost as a Prometheus exporter (<https://www.opencost.io/docs/integrations/opencost-exporter>) and Grafana (<https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/8673-namespace-utilization-metrics/>)