Building engineer awareness around cloud costs is crucial, as engineers often don't factor expenses into their infrastructure setup. A well-configured Grafana dashboard can help with this by providing real-time cost data and insights, allowing teams to monitor shared costs, receive alerts for price increases, and raise cost awareness among their teams. Grafana can be used to include cost data in dashboards, making it easier for engineers to monitor Kubernetes cluster resources, node health, and pod utilization. By using Grafana with a strong cost monitoring solution like CAST AI, teams can allocate costs to teams or projects, avoid unexpected cloud charges, and optimize their clusters for free.