Pixie · FinOps Profile

Pixie Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps for Pixie - Pixie is open source under Apache 2.0; there are no vendor invoices for the project itself. The cost surface is the user's own Kubernetes cluster resources (CPU, memory, storage) consumed by the Pixie Cloud control plane and Vizier data plane. Commercial managed offerings that bundle Pixie (e.g. New Relic) are billed by those vendors and outside the scope of this artifact.

Pixie Finops is the FinOps profile for Pixie on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 4 billable meters, billed in N/A, on a none cycle, and pricing category open source.

The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include FinOps, FOCUS, Observability, Kubernetes, and Open Source.

Category: Observability Pricing: Open Source Billing: None FOCUS v1.3
FinOpsFOCUSObservabilityKubernetesOpen Source

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
N/A
ChargeCategory
N/A
PricingCategory
Open Source
ProviderName
Pixie (CNCF)
PublisherName
Pixie Authors / CNCF
ServiceCategory
Observability
ServiceName
Pixie
ServiceSubcategory
Kubernetes Observability

Meters

cluster_cpu_pixie
Unit: vCPU-hour
CPU consumed by Pixie Vizier agents (PEMs / Cloud Connector / Kelvin) on the monitored cluster. Cost shows up in your cloud provider bill, not from Pixie.
cluster_memory_pixie
Unit: GB-hour
Memory consumed by Pixie components on the cluster.
pixie_cloud_compute
Unit: vCPU-hour
CPU / memory consumed by the self-hosted Pixie Cloud control plane (only if self-hosting; otherwise the community-hosted instance bears this).
api_calls
Unit: request
Pixie API / PxL script invocations. Not billed by Pixie; useful for capacity planning of the Cloud control plane.

Sources

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