Got tired of setting up dashboards just to answer "where does our K8s money go?"

So I built Burn — a CLI that shows you exactly which namespaces,pods, and load balancers cost what. One command, no agent, no dashboard.

## What it looks like

$ burn analyze --prometheus http://prometheus:9090

NAMESPACE PODS CPU REQ→USED COST/MO argocd 4 2.0 → 30m $56 amazon-cloudwatch 11 1.6 → 82m $44 kube-system 21 1.4 → 52m $41 ...and 7 more namespaces Idle (unallocated) $117 Total $350

COST BREAKDOWN Compute: $350 | Storage: $0 | LB: $16 Total: $367

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argocd-dex-server requests 500m CPU, uses 0.12m. That's $14/month for 0.02% efficiency.

## Slack integration

It also works as a Slack bot. You just ask:

/burn ask "what should I do to save money"

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shell

1. Switch to Spot — Save $277/mo 2. Rightsize argocd-dex-server (500m → 10m CPU) $ kubectl set resources deployment argocd-dex-server -n argocd --requests=cpu=10m 3.…