Question

Your finance team wants automated cost controls for a development project. When the project's spending reaches its monthly budget, an internal system must automatically trigger a script that disables billing on the project to prevent further charges. You are configuring the budget in the Google Cloud console. Which budget setting must you enable so your automation can react to budget threshold events programmatically?

Accepted Answer

Connect a Pub/Sub topic to the budget so threshold notifications are published as messages

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Add the finance team's email addresses to the budget's email notification recipients

Answer

Enable a Cloud Monitoring notification channel on the budget alert

Answer

Set the budget scope to the entire billing account instead of a single project