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Documentation

  • CloudZero Documentation
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • What's New At CloudZero

Getting Started

  • Getting Started With CloudZero
  • Authentication
    • SSO with Okta
    • SSO with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)
    • SSO with OpenID Connect
  • Connections
    • Connecting to AWS
    • Connecting AWS Billing Data Manually from a Management/Payer Account
    • Connecting AWS Resource Data Manually from a Member Account
    • Connecting to Azure
      • Connecting to an Azure MCA Account
      • Connecting to an Azure EA Account
      • Connecting to an Azure CSP Account
    • Connecting to Snowflake
    • Connecting to GCP - Billing
      • GCP Billing Data Integration
    • Connecting to GCP - Recommender
    • Connecting to New Relic
    • Connecting to Databricks
    • Connecting to Datadog
    • Connecting to MongoDB
    • Connecting Custom Data from AnyCost Adaptors
    • Cost Allocation Tagging Configuration
    • AWS: Validate your Cost and Usage Report
    • Updating an AWS Account Connection Stack
    • Updating Manual Snowflake Connection
    • Disconnecting Connections
    • Snowflake Data Shares

Features

  • Analytics
    • Creating And Editing Dashboards
    • Viewing Usage Data
  • Anomaly Detection
  • AnyCost
    • Getting Started with AnyCost Bucket
      • Configuring AnyCost Bucket File Drops
    • Getting Started with AnyCost Stream
      • Sending AnyCost Stream Data to CloudZero
    • Creating AnyCost Custom Adaptors
    • Common Bill Format (CBF)
  • App Integrations
    • Slack Integration
    • Jira Integration
  • Budgets
  • CostFormation
    • CostFormation
    • VSCode CloudZero CostFormation Toolkit
      • Overview of Features
      • Getting Started
      • Autocompletion
      • Validating Definitions
      • Reviewing and Publishing Definitions
      • Restoring Previous Definitions
    • Guide to Using the CostFormation Definition Language
    • Short Form Rules
    • CostFormation Language Reference
    • Default Dimension Definitions
    • Sample Python Script for Updating CostFormation Definition Language
  • CostFormation: Allocating Shared Costs
    • Split Shared Costs Using Rules
      • Step 1: What Cost Should be Split?
      • Step 2: Writing a Rules Allocation Dimension
      • Reviewing Our Rules-Based Proportional Split
      • Optionally Partition Rules Based Allocation Using ForEachElementOf
    • Split Shared Costs Using Telemetry
      • Step 1: What Cost Should be Split?
      • Step 2: How to Craft Telemetry Records and Send to our API
      • Step 3: Using the Telemetry Stream in an Allocation Dimension
      • Reviewing our Work
    • Combining Dedicated and Shared Cost
    • Allocation API Documentation
  • Dimensions
  • Engineering Events
  • Explorer
    • Resource Details
  • Insights
    • Automated Insights For Azure
      • PostgreSQL Database Reservations
      • Azure Redis Cache Reservations
      • Azure Premium Disk Reservations
      • Azure SQL Database Reservations
      • Azure Database for MySQL Reservations
    • Automated Insights For AWS
      • Active EC2 Snapshots Older Than 90 Days
      • Consider Eliminating Spend on IPv4 Addresses
      • Consider Intelligent-Tiering or Lifecycle Rules for S3
      • Expensive CloudWatch Logs
      • High Data Retrieval Costs For S3 Glacier Storage
      • High Ratio Of S3 API Costs To Storage Costs
      • High S3 Administrative Fees
      • Non-standard API Requests for S3 Exceed Threshold
      • Older Generation Instances Detected
      • RDS Snapshot Costs Are Higher Than Expected
      • Redundant Cloudtrail Usage Detected
      • Upgradable EBS Volumes
      • Unused NAT Gateways Detected
    • Automated Insights For GCP
      • Standard Storage Class Exceeds Target Threshold
      • Standard Disk Below Target Threshold
      • Disk Snapshots Exceeds Target Threshold
      • Multi-Region Storage Exceeds Target Threshold
      • Supported GCP Recommenders
  • Kubernetes
    • Install Kubernetes Agent
    • Exploring Kubernetes Cost
    • Advanced Kubernetes Configuration
      • Kube-State-Metrics
      • Kubernetes TLS
      • Kubernetes Labels and Annotations
      • Kubernetes Istio Configuration
    • Alternative Kubernetes Install Methods
      • GKE Cost Allocation
      • EKS SCAD Support
  • Notifications
  • Views
  • Unit Cost Analytics
    • Common Sources Of Unit Cost Telemetry Data
    • Unit Metric Case Studies
    • Telemetry Stream CSV Import
    • Tutorial: Calculate Unit Cost By Creating a Telemetry Stream
    • Telemetry Stream Ingest Status
      • Unit Metric API Documentation
  • User Management
    • User Groups
    • Manage Groups with SSO

STATUS

  • CloudZero Status

Alternative Kubernetes Install Methods

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Overview

For most accurate results, we recommend the CloudZero Kubernetes Agent.

For some use cases that do not require granular Kubernetes data, we offer the following alternatives to our agent for each platform.

  • EKS SCAD Allocations
  • GKE Container Allocations

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