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Cost Analysis

The /cost command analyzes your cloud spending, identifies waste, and projects future costs. NeuBird queries AWS Cost Explorer, Datadog billing data, and resource utilization metrics to produce actionable savings recommendations.

Usage

/cost            # 24-hour lookback (default)
/cost 7d         # 7-day lookback

What it analyzes

  • Top cost drivers — services ranked by spend with 30-day projections
  • Idle resources — EC2 instances, RDS clusters, and ElastiCache nodes with low utilization
  • Metric cardinality — high-cardinality Datadog metrics driving observability costs
  • Log volume — excessive log output and missing log level filters
  • Over-provisioning — resources sized larger than their actual usage requires

Savings categories

The report separates findings into two categories:

Quick Wins — savings achievable with minimal engineering effort (terminate idle instances, adjust tag filters, enable lifecycle policies).

Engineering Projects — larger savings that require code or architecture changes (custom metric cleanup, right-sizing, log restructuring).

Each recommendation includes an estimated monthly savings and effort level.