# Whose GPUs are these, anyway? Secure, self-service metrics for multi-tenant Kubernetes

DevFeed: [Whose GPUs are these, anyway? Secure, self-service metrics for multi-tenant Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/whose-gpus-are-these-anyway-secure-self-service-metrics-for-multi-tenant-kubernetes-4601.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/09/09/whose-gpus-are-these-anyway-secure-self-service-metrics-for-multi-tenant-kubernetes/>)

Author: Bingi Narasimha Karthik (Golden Kubestronaut, Adobe) and Ramkumar Nagaraj (Golden Kubestronaut, Adobe)

Published: 2026-09-09T11:27:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Cloud Native Computing Foundation](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cloud-native-computing-foundation.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [GPU](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gpu.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [SIEM, Security, Observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/siem-security-observability.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [gpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [prometheus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prometheus.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes providing Kubernetes tenants with secure, self-service access to their own GPU metrics without exposing a central Prometheus instance or allowing noisy queries to affect the wider fleet.

## Source excerpt

The question that stopped the meeting It was a routine cost review. The slide showed the month's GPU spend, the biggest line on the whole infrastructure bill, and someone asked a five-word question: "Are we using...