A cloud engineer is setting up cost oversight for a newly created workload. The engineer needs to receive automated email notifications when project spending reaches defined limits and must also analyze daily itemized spend trends using SQL. Which TWO actions should the engineer take to meet these requirements? (Select TWO answers.)
- Create a Cloud Billing budget for the target project and configure threshold rules to trigger email alerts.Answer
- Configure Cloud Billing export to send detailed cost data directly into a BigQuery dataset.Answer
- CEnable budget threshold rules to automatically shut down active virtual machine instances when spending exceeds 100%.
- DGrant the Project Viewer IAM role on the target project to enable automatic BigQuery export dataset creation.
Answer
The engineer should create a Cloud Billing budget with threshold rules to send email alerts and configure Cloud Billing export to stream detailed cost data to a BigQuery dataset.
To receive spending alerts, a Cloud Billing budget must be created with alert threshold rules that send email notifications. To analyze itemized billing data using SQL queries, Cloud Billing export must be enabled and directed to a BigQuery dataset.
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Key Concept
Billing Budgets, Alerts, and BigQuery Export Configuration