Your finance team needs a daily feed of every Google Cloud SKU charge, tagged with project, service, and resource labels, so they can build long-term cost-allocation dashboards and join the data with internal tables using SQL. They ask you, the Cloud Engineer, to recommend the simplest native solution that delivers this granularity without manual file handling. What should you do?
Create a budget for the billing account with Pub/Sub notifications and stream the messages to BigQuery for analysis.
Enable Cloud Billing detailed usage cost export to BigQuery and let the finance team query the dataset for their dashboards.
Use the Billing Reports page in the Google Cloud console and schedule weekly PDF exports of the cost charts.
Configure Cloud Billing export to Cloud Storage in CSV format and have the finance team import the files into BigQuery when needed.
Exporting Cloud Billing data to BigQuery at the detailed usage cost level writes every usage record-including project, service, SKU, and label information-into a managed BigQuery dataset each day. Finance analysts can run SQL against the tables, join them with other datasets, and retain the data for as long as needed. Exporting to Cloud Storage creates files that must be ingested separately, the Billing Reports page is a UI without raw records, and budget-based Pub/Sub notifications only emit threshold events, not detailed cost lines.
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