Kubernetes adoption is no longer the hard part. Running it efficiently is.
As organizations scale their container workloads across more clusters and cloud providers, infrastructure costs climb and resource waste grows. Most platform teams know they are overspending but lack the tooling to act on it safely.
Kloia and Kubeadapt are partnering to address this directly.
About Kloia
Kloia is a technology consulting company specializing in DevOps, cloud-native transformation and platform engineering. As a CNCF member, Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) and AWS Premier Tier Services Partner with Amazon EKS Delivery validation, Kloia brings deep expertise across Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability and multi-cloud architecture.
With offices in London, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Dubai, Delaware and Hyderabad, Kloia helps organizations modernize their infrastructure and build scalable, reliable platforms. Their team holds CKA and CKAD certifications, and their consulting model is hands-on: they join your teams to implement, operate and keep improving the platforms they build.
Many teams struggle with rising Kubernetes costs as their environments grow. Working with Kubeadapt.io allows us to offer a practical way to optimize workloads and run more efficient platforms without adding complexity.
Dorian Sezen, Founder of Kloia
The problem: Kubernetes cost optimization is harder than it looks
Kubernetes clusters routinely reserve far more than they use. In Cast AI's 2025 benchmark of 2,100 organizations, average CPU utilization was 10% (source). The reasons are understandable. Nobody wants to be the engineer whose cost-cutting caused an outage at 2 AM, so teams set generous resource requests, add buffer nodes and watch the monthly cloud bill grow quarter over quarter.
The challenge isn't awareness. Platform teams know they're overspending. The challenge is acting on it safely:
- Rightsizing without risk: How do you reduce CPU and memory requests without triggering OOM kills or throttling?
- Visibility without noise: How do you separate actionable savings from dashboard clutter?
- Governance without friction: How do you prevent cost waste before it reaches production, without slowing down developers?
- Planning without guesswork: How do you model infrastructure changes (spot instances, ARM migration, node consolidation) before committing?
These are the questions Kloia's clients ask regularly, and what Kubeadapt was built to answer.
What Kubeadapt brings
Kubeadapt is Kubernetes cost monitoring and optimization. It shows where your money goes and what you can do about it, and it never changes your clusters on your behalf.
Cost visibility
Kubeadapt breaks cost down by cluster, namespace, workload, pod and container, and attributes it to teams and departments, with historical trends. Cost Explorer lets you slice that data by any of those dimensions, so teams can answer "who is spending what, and why."
Workload rightsizing
Container-level rightsizing recommendations are based on observed usage percentiles (p50, p75, p95 and p99). Kubeadapt flags over-provisioned workloads and misconfigured resource limits, and shows exactly what would change and why. Engineers copy the new values and apply them through their own GitOps pipeline.
Capacity planning
Capacity planning looks at node groups, pod density, spot and on-demand mix, and utilization by hour. It includes:
- Spot migration assessment: workload-level eligibility with risk analysis and blocker detection
- Graviton/ARM analysis: which node groups could move to ARM-based instances, with projected savings
- Simulator: model switching to spot, consolidating node pools or moving to Graviton before you change anything
- Node group visualization: current and optimized infrastructure side by side, with per-node cost and utilization
Best practices
Kubeadapt checks workloads against Kubernetes best practices: resource limits, PodDisruptionBudgets, probe configuration, replica strategies and more. Each finding explains its impact and how to fix it, with a focus on the cost and reliability trade-offs that matter in production.
Shift-left cost prevention (on the roadmap)
We plan to catch resource over-provisioning in pull requests, before it deploys. This isn't available yet.
CLI
A CLI for teams that prefer the terminal: query costs, workloads and recommendations, with JSON and YAML output for scripts.
Energy and emissions estimates
Kubeadapt estimates the energy use and emissions (in kg CO₂e) of your infrastructure alongside its cost, so sustainability and cost can be reviewed together.
Why Kloia chose Kubeadapt
For a consulting firm that works across many client environments, the choice of tools matters.
Transparency builds client trust. Kloia's clients need to understand what's being recommended and why. Kubeadapt shows the data behind every suggestion: usage percentiles, cost projections and risk assessments.
Flexibility across environments. Kloia works with AWS, Azure, GCP and on-premises clusters. Kubeadapt runs on all of them with one Helm chart and no cloud-specific agents.
Safe, incremental optimization. Kubeadapt doesn't change production workloads automatically. It provides clear recommendations that teams apply at their own pace, which matters for clients in regulated industries or with strict change management.
FinOps practice, not one-off cuts. Cost allocation by team, namespace and department helps Kloia build lasting FinOps practices at client organizations.
Fast onboarding. Connecting a cluster takes minutes. Cost data appears as soon as the agent reports, and rightsizing recommendations follow once there's about a week of usage data.
As a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider and AWS Premier Partner, we prioritize tools that deliver measurable, transparent results without operational risk. Kubeadapt's engineering-first approach, from granular cost visibility to safe, data-driven recommendations, enables us to build lasting trust with enterprise customers. In our pilot engagement with one of our clients, we achieved 32% cost savings while maintaining operational stability.
Dorian Sezen, Founder of Kloia
What this partnership means
Together, Kloia and Kubeadapt offer a Kubernetes cost optimization engagement:
- Assessment: connect clusters, find waste and size the savings opportunities
- Strategy: build a prioritized optimization roadmap from measured usage
- Implementation: Kloia applies rightsizing, spot migration and infrastructure changes through the client's own delivery pipeline
- Governance: set up alerting and team-level accountability so waste doesn't come back
- Continuous improvement: track cost trends and report progress to stakeholders
Kloia brings the platform engineering expertise; Kubeadapt brings the cost visibility and optimization tooling.
Get started
- Start free and connect your first cluster
- Book a demo to talk to us about your optimization goals
- Learn more about Kloia
- Read the documentation
