Analyze cloud billing data with #BigQuery

Key Takeaways

why you should learn how to analyze your Cloud billing costs with bigquery Cloud billing enables you to export detailed Google cloud and Google Maps billing data to bigquery automatically throughout the day data like usage cost cost estimate and pricing it's comparable to checking your bank statement to see what you've been spending on the last month you can access your exported Cloud billing data in bigquery for detailed analysis of your Cloud costs you can even further analyze your data with a tool like looker Studio to visualize the data here's a tutorial so you can practice doing this you'll create a billing admin project to hold your billing data create a bigquery data set to hold the exported data in enable the billing data to export to that bigquery data set and run some sample queries through the bigquery web interface to examine the exported Cloud billing data make sure to subscribe to learn about more tutorials like this one and now you know