Finops on Abhishek Waliahttps://awalia.dev/categories/finops/Recent content in Finops on Abhishek WaliaHugo -- gohugo.ioenAbhishek WaliaWed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000Topic-Level Kafka Cost Attribution with Prometheushttps://awalia.dev/blog/topic-level-kafka-cost-attribution/Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://awalia.dev/blog/topic-level-kafka-cost-attribution/<p>&ldquo;Which topic is costing us?&rdquo; is the question every platform team gets, and nobody can answer it cleanly. SaaS providers bill you at the cluster level. Your finance team wants a line item per team. Your product managers want to know if their pipeline is the expensive one. You have a Kafka cluster, a bill, and no bridge between them.</p>