GCloud Watch

Google Cloud billing and warning checks

Use this page to keep the superadmin view tight: billing export health, cost trends, and critical warnings. Copy the commands, run them in Terminal, and log the highlights.

Status checks

Confirm gcloud and bq are available before running billing reports.

What matters most

Key checks to keep on top of billing traffic and warnings.

- Billing export dataset exists and has tables
- Total net cost trend is steady (no unexpected spikes)
- Top projects and services are expected
- Network egress costs stay in a known range
- Budgets and alerts are configured in Google Cloud

Alert thresholds: $5/day, $10/week, $25/month (set in googlecloud-billing.json).

Billing export commands

These commands use the billing export dataset to summarize costs and traffic signals.

Billing account id

Export project id

Export dataset

Window days

Note: BigQuery billing export queries may incur small costs. Run them intentionally.