Krossboard review
A free, open-source option for cross-cluster Kubernetes usage and cost analysis.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Krossboard is an open-source Kubernetes cost-management and usage-accounting product for organizations operating multiple clusters. It brings together usage views for pods, nodes, namespaces, and clusters across EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, Rancher RKE, and vanilla Kubernetes. Accounting is available across hourly, daily, and monthly periods, with cost allocation, capacity-planning analytics, cost forecasting, managed-cluster discovery, centralized visualization, and CSV export. Its Always Free tier makes it suited to teams that need broad usage visibility without a paid subscription.
The Always Free plan costs €0 and includes core analytics for pods, nodes, and namespaces, unlimited clusters, multiple KUBECONFIG files, and CSV data export. Enterprise adds up to 12 months of historical namespace and cluster data, unlimited node history, managed-cluster discovery for AKS, EKS, and GKE, and one year of support. Enterprise Advanced adds up to three years of support and specific onboarding support. Paid Enterprise plans are offered on demand, so the free tier is the clearest starting point for evaluation and ongoing use.
Krossboard’s main strength is breadth across Kubernetes environments and external analysis tools. It supports Google BigQuery, AWS Athena, Azure Synapse, Tableau, and Microsoft Excel alongside multiple cloud-managed and self-managed Kubernetes distributions. That makes it a practical fit for centralized cross-cloud reporting, namespace-level allocation, and capacity planning. Teams that need a free, multi-cluster accounting layer should consider it; teams primarily seeking workflows explicitly centered on rightsizing or budget alerts should compare alternatives focused on those priorities.
Krossboard pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Always Free tier supports unlimited clusters and multiple KUBECONFIG files
- Tracks usage across pods, nodes, namespaces, and clusters
- Connects Kubernetes distributions, cloud providers, and analytics tools
- Where it doesn't
- Paid Enterprise plans use on-demand pricing
- Enterprise tiers limit historical namespace and cluster data to 12 months
- Specific onboarding support is offered only on Enterprise Advanced
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