Show HN: Chitragupta Kafka Identity and topic level cost attribution

Category: observability

Tags: cost-allocation, chargeback, kafka, observability, finops

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Chitragupta is a multi-ecosystem infrastructure cost chargeback engine that allocates costs to teams and service accounts, primarily for Kafka (Confluent Cloud and self-managed) and other Prometheus-instrumented systems. It's interesting because it offers a plugin-based architecture for extensibility, performs topic-level cost attribution for Kafka, and provides a complete stack with API, UI, and Grafana integration for financial observability.

Target audience: devops, platform-engineers, data-engineers, finops

Repository: https://github.com/waliaabhishek/chitragupta · Python · 41 stars

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