Question

Your finance team wants to perform detailed, granular analysis of Google Cloud spending using SQL queries, including custom dashboards that break down costs by label and SKU over time. They need the raw, itemized billing data available for querying. As the Associate Cloud Engineer, what should you configure to meet this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Configure Cloud Billing data export to a BigQuery dataset.

Answer

Set up a Cloud Billing budget with alert thresholds and enable programmatic notifications via Pub/Sub.

Answer

Export the billing reports as CSV files from the Cost Table page each month.

Answer

Enable Cloud Billing data export to a Cloud Storage bucket in Parquet format.