Your Kubernetes cluster is burning money. Find out where. That’s the blunt message on the homepage of a new open-source project that has drawn attention from platform engineers tired of surprise cloud bills. Released on GitHub by Ozlem Tanrikulu, the tool called burn skips the usual overhead of agents, dashboards and complex YAML setups. Run one command. Get answers. The approach stands out in a market crowded with enterprise platforms that promise similar results but often require weeks of integration. Engineers have complained for years about the gap between Kubernetes resource usage and actual dollars spent. Cloud provider bills arrive at the account level. Allocations to teams, namespaces or individual services remain guesswork. Burn attacks that problem directly. It queries the Kubernetes API for pods, persistent volume claims, services and ingresses. When available, it pulls real usage data from Prometheus. Then it matches those figures against current pricing from AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.…