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GitHub REST API adds lookup for a resource's cost center
GitHub announced that its REST API can now be used to find which cost center a user, organization, repository, or enterprise team belongs to. Previously, users had to list every cost center to find this information.
Why it matters
Teams that track GitHub spend by cost center can query ownership for a specific resource directly instead of paging through all cost centers, which simplifies billing reconciliation and internal chargeback reporting.
Who should care
Engineering managers, platform teams, finance and FinOps staff managing GitHub Enterprise billing, developers building internal cost-tracking tools
What you can do
Review the GitHub REST API changelog entry and test a cost center lookup call for one user or repository to confirm it fits your chargeback reporting workflow.