Curious to hear how you’re managing cloud costs on DigitalOcean, especially if you’re running multiple projects or services across different Droplets, Kubernetes, and Spaces.
Are you using any built-in features or third-party tools to track usage and get alerts when costs spike? I know DO has billing alerts, but I’m wondering if there’s a more detailed way to break things down by service or tag, or even automate cost reports.
Would love to hear your setup or tips, whether it’s a script, tool, or just a solid strategy.
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Hey!
DigitalOcean offers Billing Alerts which are a good start, you can set thresholds and get notified when your spend hits a certain amount.
For more granularity, I use a combo of doctl and a daily cron job to pull usage data and push it into a dashboard. It’s basic, but helps track which services are creeping up in cost:
https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/balance/
https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/doctl/reference/billing-history/
Would love to see if anyone’s built a full open-source dashboard for this!
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