Question

Your finance team wants to be notified before a project's monthly spending exceeds its allocated budget, not just after the actual costs cross the threshold. They want an alert triggered when the projected end-of-month cost is expected to reach 100% of the $5,000 budget. As the Cloud Engineer, how should you configure this in a Cloud Billing budget?

Accepted Answer

Create a budget of $5,000 and add an alert threshold rule based on forecasted spend set to 100%.

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Create a budget of $5,000 and add an alert threshold rule based on actual spend set to 100%.

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Set a budget of $5,000 and configure a Cloud Monitoring alerting policy on the billing metric with a 100% forecasted threshold.

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Create a budget of $5,000 and enable programmatic budget notifications to Pub/Sub, then write a Cloud Function to predict spend.