Hey everyone, I'm still pretty new to all this DevOps/cloud tooling world, coming from a sysadmin background.
I've been trying out Pika and I like the idea, but the credit system feels really hard to track. I ran a few commands and my balance just... dropped. I can't easily see what each action "costs" before I run it, or get a simple breakdown afterwards. It makes me nervous to experiment, which is how I learn. Anyone else feel this way? Or maybe I'm missing a clear dashboard somewhere? 😅
You're not missing a dashboard, it's genuinely opaque. I've had the same experience where the credits seem to vanish without a clear audit trail.
Coming from a data background, I expect the same granularity as a cloud provider's billing report. You should be able to query something like:
SELECT action, credit_cost, timestamp FROM pika_usage WHERE user_id = me();
Until they provide that, it makes cost-controlled experimentation difficult. I've started running commands in a sandbox account first just to gauge the hit.