How to retrive Bigquery billing details from GCP console or UI? - google-cloud-platform

Question

My team is using bigquery for our product development. Other bill of Rs 5159 got generated for one days transaction.
I checked the transaction details and
BigQuery Analysis: 15.912 Tebibytes [Currency conversion: USD to INR using rate 69.155]
Is is possible to somehow find out more details about the transactions like table name, queries that were executed and exact time of execution?

Answer 1

BigQuery automatically sends audit logs to Stackdriver Logging and provide the ability to do aggregated analysis on logs data. You can see BigQuery schema for exported logs for details
As quick example: Query cost breakdown by identity
This query shows estimated query costs by user identity. It estimates costs based on the list price for on-demand queries in the US. This pricing may not be accurate for other locations or for customers leveraging flat-rate billing.
#standardSQL
WITH data as
(
SELECT
protopayload_auditlog.authenticationInfo.principalEmail as principalEmail,
protopayload_auditlog.servicedata_v1_bigquery.jobCompletedEvent AS jobCompletedEvent
FROM
`MYPROJECTID.MYDATASETID.cloudaudit_googleapis_com_data_access_YYYYMMDD`
)
SELECT
principalEmail,
FORMAT('%9.2f',5.0 * (SUM(jobCompletedEvent.job.jobStatistics.totalBilledBytes)/POWER(2, 40))) AS Estimated_USD_Cost
FROM
data
WHERE
jobCompletedEvent.eventName = 'query_job_completed'
GROUP BY principalEmail
ORDER BY Estimated_USD_Cost DESC

Answer 2

As of last year BigQuery provides INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables that also give access to job information via JOBS_BY_* views. The INFORMATION_SCHEMA.JOBS_BY_USER and INFORMATION_SCHEMA.JOBS_BY_PROJECT views even include the exact query alongside the processed bytes. It might not be 100% accuracte (because bytes processed != bytes billed) but it should allow you to gain a good overview over your costs, which queries triggered them an who the initiator was.
Example
SELECT
creation_time,
job_id,
project_id,
user_email,
total_bytes_processed,
query
FROM
`region-us`.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.JOBS_BY_USER
The most "efficient" way to keep an eye on the cost is using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.JOBS_BY_ORGANIZATION view as it automatically includes all projects of the organization. You need to be Organization Owner or Organization Administrator to use that view, though.
From there you can figure out which jobs were the most expensive (= get their job id) and form there drill down via JOBS_BY_PROJECT to get the exact query.
See https://www.pascallandau.com/bigquery-snippets/monitor-query-costs/ for a more comprehensive explanation.

Answer 3

You need to Export Billing Data to BigQuery
Tools for monitoring, analyzing and optimizing cost have become an important part of managing development. Billing export to BigQuery enables you to export your daily usage and cost estimates automatically throughout the day to
export data to a CSV,JSON file
However, if you use regular file export, you should be aware that regular file export captures a smaller dataset than export to BigQuery. For more information about regular file export and the data it captures, see Export Billing Data to a File.
to a BigQuery dataset you specify.
After you enable BigQuery export, it might take a few hours to start seeing your data. Billing data automatically exports your data to BigQuery in regular intervals, but the frequency of updates in BigQuery varies depending on the services you're using. Note that BigQuery loads are ACID compliant, so if you query the BigQuery billing export dataset while data is being loaded into it, you will not encounter partially loaded data.
Follow the step by step guide: How to enable billing export to BigQuery
https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-bigquery