Harness CCM
vs.
Stacklet
UPDATEd ON
13 Feb
2025
Custom BI Dashboards for Cost Insights
Harness CCM provides flexible, customizable BI dashboards to track cloud costs and usage, with the ability to create tailored views to meet specific business needs. These dashboards offer deep visibility into spending patterns, enabling organizations to make data-driven decisions that align with their financial goals.
Anomaly Detection to Prevent Cost-Spikes
Harness CCM’s anomaly detection automatically identifies irregular cost spikes and resource usage patterns, sending real-time alerts to help prevent overspending. This feature leverages machine learning to detect and notify users of inefficiencies, ensuring that cloud costs remain under control and within budget.
Cluster Orchestration on Spot Instances for Maximum Savings
Harness CCM orchestrates clusters on spot instances, ensuring optimal cost savings by automatically scaling workloads on the most cost-effective compute resources. This feature maximizes efficiency by seamlessly managing spot instances, ensuring that workloads run without interruptions while reducing infrastructure costs by up to 90%.
How does
Stacklet
compare?
Stacklet offers essential tools for cloud governance and cost management, with a focus on security and compliance, but it lacks the broader capabilities of Harness CCM in areas like automation, anomaly detection, and cost optimization. Stacklet’s BI dashboard feature allows some customization, but it does not offer the same level of flexibility or integration as Harness CCM.
Harness CCM provides an all-in-one solution for cloud financial management, combining custom BI dashboards, anomaly detection, and automated spot instance orchestration to deliver deeper insights and better cost control. Harness also offers comprehensive governance automation, making it the more holistic choice for organizations seeking a complete FinOps solution.
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Detailed feature comparison
Harness CCM provides a more comprehensive and flexible platform for cloud cost management compared to Stacklet. While Stacklet excels in governance and compliance, Harness offers more robust features for cost optimization, such as custom BI dashboards, anomaly detection, and cluster orchestration on spot instances. These features make Harness CCM ideal for organizations seeking deep insights, cost control, and automation across their multi-cloud environments.
RI / SP Planning and Recommendations: Harness CCM provides intelligent Reserved Instance (RI) and Savings Plan (SP) recommendations by analyzing historical usage and projecting future needs. Stacklet lacks automated RI/SP planning capabilities requiring users to manually analyze and predict their RI/SP needs.
Automated RI / SP Contract Execution: Harness CCM automates the purchasing and execution of RI/SP contracts based on real-time usage data. Stacklet does not provide automated RI/SP contract execution.
Budgets: Harness CCM enables organizations to set budgets across teams, projects, or environments, with real-time alerts to prevent overspending. These budgets are integrated into the platform's advanced cost monitoring tools. Stacklet lacks native budget creation and enforcement.
Cost Perspectives / Chargeback / Showback: Harness CCM allows organizations to allocate costs to teams, projects, or environments using cost perspectives. These tools enable accurate chargeback or showback, driving accountability and cost transparency: Stacklet lacks dedicated chargeback or showback functionality as of now.
Cost Categories / Dynamic Bucketing: Harness CCM organizes cloud costs dynamically using cost categories and bucketing. This helps group related expenses for easier tracking and analysis, enabling actionable insights. Stacklet does not offer dynamic bucketing or cost categorization.
Kubernetes Cost Allocation (By Node/Cluster/Workload): Harness CCM delivers precise Kubernetes cost allocation by nodes, clusters, or workload. Stacklet does not provide Kubernetes-specific cost allocation even though it offers support for different cloud providers.
Cluster Orchestration on Spot Instances: Harness CCM simplifies cluster management by orchestrating workloads to leverage spot instances. By dynamically selecting optimal spot markets and implementing fallback strategies, the platform ensures high availability and significant cost reductions, making it ideal for containerized applications and Kubernetes clusters. AWS, although provides cloud cost management for AWS resources, it lacks the orchestration support for K8s.
