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IBM Kubecost 3.0: Faster, Smarter, and Built for Scale

By Janie Carothers posted Fri October 10, 2025 12:43 PM

  

Platform and engineering teams today face a growing set of challenges:

  • Clusters that are larger and more distributed than ever.
  • Hybrid and multi-cloud environments make it difficult to attribute spend.
  • Rising Kubernetes costs without clear visibility into what’s driving them.
  • Pressure from leadership to improve efficiency and enable automation at scale.

Kubecost 3.0 is designed to meet these challenges head-on. A new ClickHouse database empowers teams to shift from reactive cost management to proactive optimization by delivering dramatically faster queries, more precise right-sizing insights, and dependable automation that scales effectively across hybrid and multi-cloud setups.

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Join us for our next Monthly Kubechat on October 23. This session – Kubecost 3.0: What’s New and How to Use it – will walk through the latest features in our biggest release yet, designed to help Kubernetes teams reduce waste and improve cost efficiency.  

We’ll cover: 

  • Smarter right-sizing, including GPU-aware recommendations 

  • New usage visualizations for container and cluster metrics 

  • Faster chargeback and showback with Collections 2.0 

  • Advanced filters for flexible cost analysis 

  • Updated diagnostics and alerting tools 

  • Improved performance with a lightweight agent and ClickHouse backend 

 

Can’t make it live? Register anyway, we’ll be sure to send you the recording afterward. 

 

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