GCP-COST-REPORTS

GCP Cost Reports Billing Reports + BigQuery Export.

Definition

GCP Billing features: (1) Cloud Billing Reports: Cloud Console interactive analysis filter by project, service, SKU, region, label, custom date range, group by + breakdown. (2) Cloud Billing API: REST + gRPC programmatic access cost data + budgets management. (3) Billing Export to BigQuery: detailed billing data exported automatically to BigQuery dataset gcp-billing-export-detailed_v1 (raw events) + gcp-billing-export-resource_v1 (per-resource aggregated), daily partitioned tables, ~100+ columns per row including invoice month, line item, cost (currency_conversion_rate), resource (resource.name), labels, etc. (4) Recommender: Google Cloud Recommender API surface recommendations Google ML-based: Idle Compute Engine VM recommendations, Persistent Disk underutilized, Cloud SQL idle, etc. (5) Budgets: monthly/quarterly/yearly thresholds + alerts. (6) Cost Anomaly Detection: Cloud Cost Anomaly Detection ML detection unusual spikes 2023+. (7) FinOps Hub: Google Cloud unified FinOps console 2024. FOCUS adapter Billing Export Schema FOCUS v1.0 preview 2024.

Origin

GCP Billing Reports initial 2014 ; Billing Export to BigQuery 2016 ; Recommender 2019 ; Cost Anomaly Detection 2023 ; FinOps Hub 2024 ; FOCUS adapter preview 2024.

Example in context

Snap Inc. (Snapchat) GCP environment large-scale uses Billing Export BigQuery raw events table ~10B rows/month, analytics Looker dashboards executive cost reporting + Recommender API integrate engineering tickets Jira automatic rightsizing tickets ~$15M annual savings.

Related terms

• AWS CUR — competitor billing export.