I would like to see my current bill on my GCP project. I tried using the Billing API and the Budget API but they just give me meta data information. No bill with costs on it. I would like to know the current bill cost for the month.
I know there is a Pub/Sub way to do this, but I don't want to get notified of the billing cost. I would like to see the bill cost when on demand.
At this moment as per the list of available 'Cloud billing APIs', GCP don't have such an API to view usage/total cost of a project. Here is the Feature Request for this.
As per the PIT there is no such API that would provide real-time billing cost and this is Feature Request as billing Engineering team working on this.
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I am looking to configure a weekly billing report in AWS. It should contain the basic information like for last 7 days, $x is charged for the account. If is shows the services also, it will be good, but main focus is on the charged amount. The weekly billed amount should be sent over mail or SMS to inform users about the charges. Eg: $10 has been charged to your AWS acc id xyz in last week.
Is there any inbuilt AWS service which can be used or we need to write a custom script?
For now I have created a daily budget, using which I have set budget report to be sent every week. But that is not sufficient. Let me know if there is more sophisticated way present.
Thanks
You could check out the AWS Cost Explorer and build your own, custom report, that might look like this:
Go to your AWS Account -> Billing -> Cost Explorer -> Launch Cost Explorer.
NOTE: If you're running it for the first time, you need to enable it and wait approx. 24 hours for the initial data.
As of now, there's no out-of-the-box solution from AWS that sends the report as an email, but anyone interested might want to explore this repository - AWS Cost Explorer Report.
My google calendar usage already exceeded the "Queries per minute" quota, which is 10,000. And my application hits 20,000 requests per minute for the moment, so I'm expecting to increase the quota to 200,000. When I tried to do it I was asked to create a billing account, which I'm going to do, but I need to know the pricing before that.
Despite my effort I was unable to find the exact information on pricing. Please help me understand the pricing involved with increasing the quotas of google calendar API.
To give more information about the application, this is a backup application where we backup all the Google workspace data including the calendar events using service accounts. So all the payment for calendar service will be done by my company.
Thank you.
Hello Community Support
I signed up for the Google Compute Engine and did not realise that I would be charged $1000. The payment did not go through as there is not enough money on my credit card and I cannot pay the balance.
I didnt want to phone Google Support as they may hassle me for payment
Can you make any suggestions for a way to resolve this?
Thanks
sas
Google provides free support for Google Cloud billing questions - contact them.
Google Cloud Billing Support
I signed up for the Google Compute Engine and did not realise that I
would be charged $1000.
Google Cloud will automatically charge your card when you reach thresholds. The default for new accounts is $100.00 USD. Were you charged $100.00?
Additionally Google implements quotas for Compute resources. What type of resouce did you create that incurred $1,000.00 in charges? This would have exceeded your new account quota limit, so I wonder how you accomplished this ...
There is something odd about your first credit card charge being $1,000 USD as you should have received a number of charges for $100.00 each. After a credit card payment fails, you will receive billing payment notices. None of this would have happened mysteriously unless you do not read your email or SPAM filters blocked the notices.
Always take the time to learn what cloud resources cost. Understand that pricing, billing, resources and usage are important items not to be overlooked. Google, like most companies, is in the business to provide services and products that customers want and to make a profit while doing so.
I am trying to see if there is a way for me to bill and restrict users based on their usage of resources across projects on our GCP instance. I know billing and quotas officially are at the project level, but we will have shared projects which will be used by people in seperate cost codes. I was thinking of building an API per cost code, and having people access the resources only through there, but I'm not sure if this is the best idea.
You can use a grouping system where you use labels to track your resources. Using labels such as cost center, service and environment will allow you to track your GCP resource usage and spending.
Then you can export your billing data to BigQuery where it can be filtered and segmented by labels.
In terms of notifications and restricting access, you may set up budget alerts by following this documentation. Together with Cloud Pub/Sub budget notifications and Cloud Functions, you can have more control on your spending by capping costs and stopping your billing.
I can't figure out how to make a simple call to display how much I owe Amazon for the month. Just want to display it for this internal dashboard I'm building. Any ideas? I'm not using cloudwatch
You should follow these directions:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/about/programaccess.html
To tell AWS you would like your monthly bills dropped into an S3 bucket that you supply. Once its turned on, you can use the S3 API to read/download the bill and display it on your dashboard.
There is no 'real-time' billing API that I am aware of (kind of surprising given the technical sophistication of AWS).