To overcome business challenges, cost management gives your organization visibility into your costs down to the project level for OpenShift clusters. This visibility provides IT and financial stakeholders with a unique snapshot into the costs associated with applications.

You can use cost management to perform the following tasks to help your organization optimize costs, increase efficiency, and save money:

• Visualize, understand, and analyze how you use your resources across hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Track cost trends.
• Breakdown charges to your projects and organizations.
• Use cost models to apply cost to OpenShift usage metrics or add markups, or both.
• Forecast your future consumption.
• Optimize your resources and usage.
• Identify patterns of usage that you might want to investigate.
• Export data to integrate with third-party tools.