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Google Cloud Platform Administration

You're reading from   Google Cloud Platform Administration Design highly available, scalable, and secure cloud solutions on GCP

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624350
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ranjit Singh Thakurratan Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
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Preface 1. Introduction to Google Cloud Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. Google Cloud Platform Compute 3. Google Cloud Platform Storage 4. Google Cloud Platform Networking 5. Google Cloud Platform Containers 6. Google Cloud Platform Operations 7. Google Cloud Platform Identity and Security 8. Google Cloud Platform Billing 9. Google Cloud Platform Tools 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

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 Google's data studio suite. The following is a sample output based on some test data:

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