Cost Insights is a plugin to help engineers visualize, understand and optimize their cloud costs.
Install the plugin into Backstage.
yarn add @backstage/plugin-cost-insights
Create a CostInsights client. Clients must implement the CostInsightsApi interface. See the API file for required methods and documentation.
// path/to/CostInsightsClient.ts
import { CostInsightsApi } from '@backstage/plugin-cost-insights';
export class CostInsightsClient implements CostInsightsApi { ... }
Import the client and the CostInsights plugin API to your Backstage instance.
// packages/app/src/api.ts
import { createApiFactory } from '@backstage/core';
import { costInsightsApiRef } from '@backstage/plugin-cost-insights';
import { CostInsightsClient } from './path/to/file';
export const apis = [
createApiFactory({
api: costInsightsApiRef,
deps: {},
factory: () => new CostInsightsClient(),
}),
];
Add plugin to the list of plugins.
// packages/app/src/plugins.ts
export { plugin as CostInsights } from '@backstage/plugin-cost-insights';
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