Kubecost _IDLE_

[YannCoderre]

Describe the bug

We need to investigate in the IDLE is actually working properly or is not displaying the actual / right costs. We need to figure what IDLE does and how it works.

This is an example:

• A client (namespace: eric-fecteau), runs a program for 18 hours.
• After the programs runs, the client suspends his notebook.

In KUBECOST (https://kubecost.aaw.cloud.statcan.ca/)

• In a 24 hour window, the actual cost of running his notebook is $0.93 cents. The IDLE cost is $48.84. The total cost is $49.77.
• It is important to note the client has only one notebook in his namespace.

I find this to be very expexsive for one run.

TO BE COMPARED with:

namespace: aaw-demos

• 4 notebooks running and 1 suspended
• Cost for running notebooks: $9.25
• IDLE cost: $50.71
• Total Cost: $59.96

Environment info

Namespace: eric-fecteau

Notebook/server: (none provided)

Expected behaviour

To be investigated

Screenshots

Additional context

As we are now proceeding to start charging the majority of our clients, we need to have a clear understanding of the cost as well to make sure that the costs are actual representing the correct numbers.

[YannCoderre]

Information provided by @chuckbelisle

https://guide.kubecost.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407601807383#idle-costs

https://guide.kubecost.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407595947799-Getting-Started#additional-considerations

[chuckbelisle]

Our idle cost includes shared namespace cost. For the time being we are not passing on the idle cost value to our namespace owners/users. We will be disabling the shared cost of operation in order to be better assess our baseline cost. And then we can determine the pricing model for our service.