Is there no way to have KOA_BILLING_HOURLY_RATE be dynamically updated as cluster usage increases and decreases using autoscaler?

[alexmnyc]

Is there no way to have KOA_BILLING_HOURLY_RATE be dynamically updated as cluster usage increases and decreases using autoscaler?

[rchakode]

Hi @alexmnyc, Can we have more details about how you want to handle this setting dynamically?

Indeed, currently if you've deployed kube-opex-analytics through the helm chart as statefulset with a persistent volume, you just have to edit the KOA_BILLING_HOURLY_RATE parameter and the pod will be restarted with the new value.

[alexmnyc]

Not sure how one would calculate it. But isn't that what kubecost does?

The cluster cost coule be calculated using billing API perhaps, maybe use tagging api to look for a specific cluster tag for all resources and then calculate running cost at that minute interval or something. It obviously won't be a flat value over time as an autoscaled cluster will have more resources and then less based on load I suppose. It's more of a question how people go about using it with a dynamic size cluster

[rchakode]

I see the point, we'll consider it for a future version.

Thank you to have highlighted that.

[rchakode]

Feature in progress : see PR #62