Cutting Cloud Costs - Tackling Over-Provisioning with Kube-Prometheus-Stack

Learn to detect and remediate cloud resource inefficiencies using kube-prometheus-stack in this 15-minute conference talk that addresses one of the major sources of unnecessary organizational spending. Discover why monitoring for over-provisioning is critical to achieving cloud cost efficiency and how to build a targeted observability stack to support cost optimization goals. Explore key metrics to track for identifying resource waste, configure alerts using Alertmanager for real-time insights into over-provisioned resources, and visualize resource usage trends with Grafana dashboards. Master the integration of Node Exporter and Prometheus to monitor CPU and memory consumption across Kubernetes clusters, enabling precise identification of underutilized resources. Gain actionable strategies for optimizing infrastructure based on real-world experience from JSR's cloud platform operations, ensuring your cloud environments remain both performant and cost-effective while eliminating wasteful over-provisioning.