KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026

Kubernetes makes scaling workloads easy, but as clusters span regions and clouds, understanding and trusting costs becomes difficult. Limited cost transparency in platform challenges customer trust, making cost visibility a platform responsibility with accuracy, transparency, and trust as first-class requirements.

In this talk, we share how we centralised our platform’s k8s cost metrics using OpenCost, VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana to deliver consistent, customer-facing visibility across multi-region, multi-cloud clusters.

We will walk through the architecture, show how raw metrics are converted into application-level cost data, and how sharing billing-level cost data improved transparency, trust, with 99.9% accuracy. The session also covers production lessons, trade-offs, and operational challenges while scaling centralised cost visibility and customer trust across the platform.