OpenWatch documentation¶

OpenWatch gives you a clear view of what your cloud actually costs, and the tools to bring that cost down, on sovereign European clouds built on OpenStack (Infomaniak Public Cloud today, more providers coming).

It connects to your cloud, then turns raw usage into something you can act on: a live cost dashboard, waste detection, right-sizing advice, budget alerts, and cost allocation by tag.

New here?

Start with the Overview and concepts, then create your account and connect your cloud.
See your spend

The Cost dashboard shows month-to-date cost, end-of-month forecast, anomalies and top movers.
Cut waste

Find orphan resources, act on rightsizing advice, and allocate cost with tags.
Stay informed

Set cost alerts and route them to Slack, Teams, Discord, Pushover or email via notification channels.

What OpenWatch does¶

Visualise cost in near real time, by project, region, resource category and tag, in CHF or EUR.
Explain the bill: month-to-date spend backed by the provider rating API, plus historical trend, forecast and anomaly detection.
Detect waste: unused volumes, floating IPs, snapshots and other orphan resources.
Recommend savings: right-sizing analysis for over-provisioned instances and volumes.
Alert: budget thresholds and cost spikes pushed to your team's channels.
Allocate: cost per tag, so you can attribute spend to teams, environments or customers.

How it is delivered¶

OpenWatch is available as a multi-tenant SaaS on openwatch.cloud and as a self-hostable open-source edition you run yourself. The feature set is the same; plan limits differ by edition. See Editions and plan limits.

Read-first by design

OpenWatch reads your usage and rating data to build every dashboard and report. It changes your cloud only when you explicitly ask it to and confirm: deleting an orphan resource, or applying and reverting a rightsizing resize or volume retype. Nothing is ever changed automatically. Your OpenStack password is encrypted at rest and used only to call the provider APIs.