Analyzing a billing account

On your GCP console Billing dashboard, click on Payment settings:

You will see your payment account ID and also note your payment option; it is set to Automatic payments.

Click on Billing export. Google allows you to export your billing as a BigQuery dataset or as a file export. You can use these features to further analyze your billing and resource consumption activity to further reduce costs. You will need a BigQuery dataset before you can export your billing data. For the file export, you will need a cloud storage bucket where the data will be stored.

You can import this data into a Billing Dashboard using ...

Get Google Cloud Platform Administration now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.