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Introduction

  • CloudZero Documentation
  • Getting Started with CloudZero
  • CloudZero Glossary
  • What's New At CloudZero

AI Hub

  • Getting Started
  • Under the hood
    • Claude Code Plugin
    • Manual MCP Installation
    • API Key Authentication
    • MCP Server
    • Claude Code Skills
  • Troubleshooting

Configuration

  • Authentication
    • SSO with Okta
    • SSO with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)
    • SSO with OpenID Connect
    • SSO with SAML
    • Delete an SSO Integration
  • Connections
    • Connecting to Anthropic
    • Connecting to AWS
      • Connecting AWS Billing Data Manually from a Management or Payer Account
      • Connecting AWS Resource Data Manually from a Member Account
      • AWS: Validate your Cost and Usage Report
      • Cost Allocation Tagging Configuration for AWS
      • Updating an AWS Account Connection Stack
    • Connecting to Azure
      • Connecting to an Azure MCA Account
      • Connecting to an Azure EA Account
      • Connecting to an Azure CSP Account
      • Connecting Azure Resource Metadata
    • Connecting to Confluent Cloud
    • Connecting to ClickHouse
    • Connecting to Cursor
    • Connecting to Databricks
    • Connecting to Datadog
    • Connecting to Fastly
    • Connecting to GCP - Billing
    • Connecting to GCP - Recommender
    • Connecting to GitHub
    • Connecting to MongoDB
    • Connecting to New Relic
    • Connecting to OpenAI
    • Connecting to Oracle Cloud
    • Connecting to Snowflake
      • Updating Manual Snowflake Connection
      • Snowflake Data Shares
    • Connecting to Twilio
    • Connecting Custom Data from AnyCost Adaptors
    • Disconnecting Connections
  • 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
      • EKS SCAD Support
      • GKE Cost Allocation
  • App Integrations
    • Jira Integration
    • Slack Integration
  • Notifications
  • Role-based Access Control
    • View and Manage your Organization’s Users
    • View and Manage Roles
    • Manage Roles with SSO
  • Namespaces
    • Namespace Access Control
  • Organization Management

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 Adaptor
    • Sending AnyCost Stream Data to CloudZero
    • Creating AnyCost Custom Adaptors
    • Common Bill Format (CBF)
  • Budgets
  • CostFormation Definition Language
    • Guide to Using the CostFormation Definition Language
    • CostFormation Definition Language Reference
    • Allocation Short Form Rules
    • Allocation Dimension Element Cutoff Thresholds
    • Default Dimension Definitions
    • Sample Python Script for Updating CostFormation Definition Language
  • VS Code CostFormation Toolkit
    • Overview of Toolkit Features
    • Getting Started with the Toolkit
    • Namespaces and the CloudZero Sidebar
    • Autocompletion
    • Validating Definitions
    • Reviewing and Publishing Definitions
    • Restoring Previous Definitions
  • 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 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 the API
      • Step 3: Using the Telemetry Stream in an Allocation Dimension
      • Reviewing Our Work
    • Combining Dedicated and Shared Cost
    • Allocation API Documentation
  • Dimensions
  • Dimension Studio
    • Understanding and Writing Rules
    • Complete Dimension Examples
    • Advanced Dimension Features
  • Engineering Events
  • Explorer
    • Toggle the Comparison Trends in Explorer
    • Kubernetes Usage Metrics in Explorer
  • Optimize
    • Recommendations for AWS
      • AWS Savings Plans Purchase Recommendations for Amazon SageMaker AI
      • Amazon EC2 Instance Consolidation for Microsoft SQL Server
      • Amazon EC2 Instance Over-Provisioned for Microsoft SQL Server
      • Amazon EC2 Instances Stopped
      • Amazon EC2 Migrate to Graviton
      • Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Lease Expiration
      • Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Optimization
      • Amazon EC2 Rightsize Instances
      • Amazon EC2 Stop Instances
      • Amazon EC2 Upgrade Instances
      • Delete EBS Snapshot Older Than 180 Days
      • Excessive EC2 Cross-Region Data Transfer
      • Excessive EC2/ELB Internet Traffic Bypassing CloudFront
      • Older Generation Instances Detected
      • Configure ECR Repository Lifecycle Policy to Reduce Storage Costs
      • AWS Fargate Cost Optimization Delete Recommendations for Amazon ECS
      • AWS Fargate Cost Optimization Recommendations for Amazon ECS
      • EKS Clusters Incurring Extended Support Charges
      • AWS Lambda Cost Optimization Recommendations for Functions
      • Fix Lambda Function with Excessive Error Rate
      • Fix Lambda Function with Excessive Timeouts
      • Migrate EMR Serverless to ARM (Graviton)
      • AWS Savings Plans Purchase Recommendations for Compute
      • Amazon Aurora Delete Clusters
      • Amazon Aurora Migrate to Graviton
      • Amazon Aurora Rightsize Clusters
      • Amazon Aurora Upgrade Clusters
      • Amazon DynamoDB Reserved Capacity Purchase Recommendations
      • Delete Inactive DynamoDB Tables
      • Amazon ElastiCache Reserved Node Purchase Recommendations
      • Amazon MemoryDB Reserved Node Purchase Recommendations
      • Amazon OpenSearch Service Reserved Instance Purchase Recommendations
      • Upgrade Elasticsearch to Avoid Extended Support Charges
      • Upgrade OpenSearch to Avoid Extended Support Charges
      • Amazon RDS Delete Instances
      • Amazon RDS Migrate to Graviton
      • Amazon RDS Reserved Instance Purchase Recommendations
      • Amazon RDS Rightsize Instances
      • Amazon RDS Storage Delete Recommendations
      • Amazon RDS Storage Rightsize Recommendations
      • Amazon RDS Storage Upgrade Recommendations
      • Amazon RDS Upgrade Instances
      • Excessive RDS Backup Retention
      • RDS Clusters Incurring Extended Support Charges
      • RDS Snapshot Costs Are Higher Than Expected
      • Amazon Redshift Reserved Node Purchase Recommendations
      • Underutilized Amazon Redshift Clusters
      • Redundant CloudTrail Usage Detected
      • CloudWatch Costs Higher Than Expected
      • Delete Inactive AWS Network Firewall
      • Release Idle Elastic IP Addresses
      • Delete Idle Load Balancer
      • Delete Inactive Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint
      • Inefficient AWS NAT Gateway Detected
      • Managed NAT Gateway with Excessive Data Transfer
      • Delete Inactive VPC Interface Endpoint
      • Amazon EBS Delete Volumes
      • Amazon EBS Rightsize Volumes
      • Amazon EBS Upgrade Volumes
      • Unarchived Old EBS Snapshots
      • Configure S3 Lifecycle Policy to Abort Incomplete Multipart Uploads
      • Consider Intelligent-Tiering or Lifecycle Rules for S3
      • High Data Retrieval Costs for S3 Glacier Storage
      • High Non-Standard API Requests for S3
      • High Ratio of S3 API Cost to Storage Cost
      • High S3 Administrative Fees
    • Recommendations for Azure
      • Purchase Azure PostgreSQL Database Reservations
      • Purchase Azure Redis Cache Reservations
      • Purchase Azure Premium Disk Reservations
      • Purchase Azure SQL Database Reservations
      • Purchase Azure MySQL Database Reservations
    • Recommendations for GCP
      • Google Compute Engine Instance Rightsizing
      • Delete Idle Address
      • Delete Idle Disk
      • Delete Idle Image
      • Snapshot and Delete Idle Disk
      • Stop Idle VM Instance
      • Google Cloud SQL Resize Over-Provisioned Instances
      • Disk Snapshots Exceeds Target Threshold
      • Multi-Region Storage Exceeds Target Threshold
      • Standard Disk Below Target Threshold
      • Standard Storage Class Exceeds Target Threshold
    • Recommendations for Kubernetes
      • Rightsize Kubernetes Memory Over-Provisioned Workload
      • Rightsize Kubernetes CPU Over-Provisioned Workload
  • 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 Cost Metric API Documentation
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App Integrations

CloudZero supports the following integrations from the Settings > App Integrations page:

  • Jira
  • Slack

Updated 9 months ago


GKE Cost Allocation
Jira Integration