FinOps Tool

This is a FinOps Tool that will give transparency into your AWS RDS and EC costs, as well as generating recommendations for cheaper resources

Requirements

• EC2 Instance:
  • python installed
  • pip installed
  • boto3 installed
  • schedule library installed
  • prometheus-client library installed
• IAM Structure setup:
  • finops tool role, in which context the EC2 instance will be running in and has permissions to assume finops member role
  • finops member role, that can be assumed by finops tool role and allows access to the services desired to monitor

Getting Started

• clone the git repository into a suitable location on your EC2 instance
• cd into the directory where the prometheus_exporter.py is located
• run python3 prometheus_exporter.py file_with_account_ids.csv
• to run the tool and keep it running also after closing session to EC2 instance:
  • run nohup python3 prometheus_exporter.py file_with_account_ids.csv > output.log 2>&1 &
• now the cost metrics are being exposed on 'ec2-instance-ip':8000 and can be scraped by a prometheus client