Your finance team wants a quick, in-console view of monthly Google Cloud spend by business unit. They have already applied billing account labels to identify each unit and prefer not to export data or build external dashboards. Which Cloud Billing Reports capability best meets this need?
Export cost data to BigQuery with the labels as partition keys and build a Looker Studio dashboard.
Configure individual budget threshold rules for each label so the team receives cost emails.
Create a separate Cloud Billing account for each business-unit label and compare account totals.
Use the Group By option in Cloud Billing Reports to display costs by the relevant label key.
Cloud Billing Reports lets users interactively explore cost data. The Group By menu can aggregate spending by project, SKU, or any user-defined label key that has been applied to resources. Selecting the appropriate label key immediately breaks down the report graph and table by that label, giving the finance team the visibility they need without exporting data. Creating separate billing accounts, exporting to BigQuery, or relying on budget alerts can provide insights, but they either require restructuring, additional tooling, or are focused on threshold notifications rather than interactive cost visualization.
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